[Culturalevents] UCR Dance Lecture: The Mulatticized Body

[Kathy DeAtley]

Join the Department of Dance
for lively and sometimes unusual presentations in 
our weekly colloquium New Research in Dance Studies
A broad discussion around the socialization of 
bodies, the discipline of coding bodies, coding 
bodies for disciplinary action, encoding bodily 
memory and function, decoding structures of 
dominance through bodily force, this Spring the 
Dance Department investigates interpolated 
corporeality in its series: Architectonics of the 
Corpo-Real: Machines and Machinations of Power. 
What is a body with a techno-habit? a credit 
card? a cell block number? a social security card? a telephone number? a bpm?

May 2
Tuesday @ 12:45pm in PE 102
The Mulatticized Body
Melissa Blanco, PhD candidate in Dance History & Theory, UCR

Part photo-essay, part performance analysis, this 
presentation  examines the idea of the 
corpo-mulata, or the mulatticized body and  its 
corresponding theory of hip(g)nosis as a means to 
re-write and un- do the trope of the "tragic 
mulata." Referring to the Tropicana in Havana, a 
Cuban rum, a Mexican film from their Golden Age 
of cinema,  and an African/Afro-Cuban deity named 
Osun/Ochún, this talk envisions the possibility 
of bodies choreographing identities in response 
to the limitations of history, language, and hetero-machismo.

Melissa Blanco Borelli is a fifth-year graduate 
student in the UC Riverside Dance History and 
Theory PhD program. She holds a BA from Brown 
University and an MA from USC. Her dissertation 
entitled "A Case of Hip(g)nosis: An Epistemology 
of the Mulata Body and Her Revolutionary Hips" 
looks at the trope of the "mulata" and argues 
that by reading the body, especially the hip 
movements associated  with such a body, an 
eloquent corporeal language emerges. This 
"hip  talk" speaks of transculturated religiosity 
in the Américas, female centered knowledge 
production, and alternative histories. 
Her  research and travels to Cuba have been 
funded by a Humanities  Research Grant, a Women 
in Coalition Grant, and a Dissertation Year 
Fellowship. She is a contributor to the anthology 
‘Ay que rico! El sexo en la literature cubana' 
(forthcoming, Aduana Vieja, España) and is 
developing a performance piece, "Mulata Madness" based on her dissertation.

Free and open to the campus community
Visitors Welcome!

Coordinated by  Anna Beatrice Scott, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, UCR Department of Dance
Information: (951) 827.3865, anna.scott at ucr.edu

Kathleen DeAtley
Publicity/Publications Manager
Departments of Dance, Music and Theatre
University of California, Riverside - ARTS 125
900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521-0325
(951) 827-3245
http://www.performingarts.ucr.edu  
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