Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia

This book analyzes gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia the extended definition of bullfighting within the visual arts and poetry in contemporary Spain. Based on the author's extensive ethnographic field research, it emerges from recent critical thinking on the body in dance and performance studies. The main argument is that flamenco and la corrida are a type of choreograph...