Entre imaginarios y escenarios: los marginados traspasando fronteras en los roles del género de la danza folclórica colombiana.

Abstract

This research is situated in the tension existing in the spaces of the stage and backstage of Colombian folk dance, where masculinities and femininities take on a performative character depending on the space where they are performed. Homosexual male dancers, sometimes adopt behaviors that can be considered feminine during the time on the backstage, while for the scene they come out to perform they represent a type of masculinity corresponding to the “traditional Colombian man”. Which leads to some questions about the permanence of heteronormative as a model and relationship to current compositions and creations in colombian folk dance and leads this research to a journey through the cartographies in the life history of this same researcher. Furthemore, there is an ethnographic observation of the dance company Estesis Danza; with which the author will delve into categories such as Folk dance as the imaginary of the nation and the transit through the boundaries of the body and movement in territorial, relation and gender terms.