Tango: una experiencia de emancipación. Intersecciones entre aiesthesis y política

Abstract

The following research aims to find in tango an emancipatory power. For this, we first had to recognize that tango makes possible an extra-ordinary aesthetic experience, which led us to return to the Greek notion of aesthetics (Aisthesis), which we contrast with the modern notion, since during the latter period aesthetics loses its vital dimension, and is reduced to a discipline of knowledge. Decolonial Aiesthesis is the critical perspective that highlights the relationship between power and sensibility that is established with modern aesthetics. Finally, we observe in a particular way how this emancipatory power is activated in tango through four dynamics that occur in it, and that derive from its character of dance of improvisation and contact. These dynamics were observed under the prism of the methodological tool that accompanied this research work, and which is called Interviews danced. This methodological proposal is an invitation to consider hybrid forms of research, which in this case we call corpo-reflexive.