Abstract

LUCIO, Mayra. The body of reverse: the “protagonist butts” of the twerk dance. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2023, n.57, pp.95-110.  Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 1850-275X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.34096/cas.i57.12595.

The present work is part of an ongoing anthropological investigation that problematizes meanings around the perception, representation and valuation of the bodies that dance twerk, in its link with the sex-generic dimension and the intersection with the colonial-racialized. The twerk dance is an artistic practice in expansion in the local Argentine scene, danced mainly by women and young LGTBIQNB+ identities, a population with a notable presence of body diversity. From movement techniques focused on the hip and in a style based on the buttock bounce, “the butt” appears as the quintessential body area of ​​this dance. This forms an attentional center around which nuclei of meaning and social ties revolve, and seems to give way to micropolitics of subversion. An analysis of ethnographic material is presented from a decolonial perspective that converges with the phenomenological and feminist frame adopted.

Keywords : Twerk; Body; Feminist phenomenology; Decolonial; Butt.

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