El hacer artístico translocado : danza, cuerpo, migración y empoderamiento de mujeres

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate how dance practice can operate as a mobilizing action to silence and change the self-image of migrant women. Based on the methodology of research based on artistic practice and the understanding of dance as an emancipatory creative project, the central hypothesis of this work is that the migrant condition can function as a creative strategy when and if treated from its ethical, situated and collaborative dimensions. To this end, it was necessary to investigate artistic practices and tools from a situated and collaborative application study with communities of migrant women from different geographies. Through artistic residencies and artistic workshops, a rigorous work was proposed with life stories, different ways of seeing and perceiving, writing capacities with the body/movement, improvisation as sensitive forms of knowledge production. As a result of these encounters, Translocar was systematized: a methodological proposal that is woven from the encounter between women, places, interculturalities and displacements. The objective was not to propose a ready-made and replicable methodology as a model, but rather to contribute and make visible artistic skills and devices that can expand the ways of problematizing and valuing the life experiences of migrant women, with the aim of transforming the vulnerabilities historically directed at them. Finally, this thesis, organized in four chapters, aims to contribute to the advancement of practical and theoretical reflections derived from the triangulation between dance, gender and migration, with the intention of strengthening epistemic, ethical and politically the field of Artistic Studies and the field of Applied Research-Creation. It is an attempt to dismantle the rigid boundaries of what is hegemonically understood as Art, proposing horizontal and interdisciplinary dialogues in the search for answers to a concrete social problem for the improvement of social life.