ReVista Dance!: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture Online NOW

Please go to http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/issues/view/547 to check out the latest issue of the DRCLAS Harvard Review of Latin American! See Press release below!

There is a large selection of articles on Brazil.  Please click on the following links to read about dance in Brazil:

Tango, Samba, Modernity and Nation
 Florencia Garramuño

Creating Global Citizens in Rio Favelas
 Jennifer Wynn

The Impact of Japanese Culture on Brazilian Dances
 Christine Greiner

Forró Music in a Transnational Setting
 Megwen Loveless

The Fun of Forró
 Kathleen Hunt

Brazilian Breakdancing
 Scott Ruescher

The Meanings of Samba
 Rowan Ireland

Caboclo Ritual Dance
 Daniel Piper

Cambridge, [October 10, 2007] – What's happening in dance in Latin America? There’s Welsh dance in Argentina and Japanese dance in Brazil; there’s more than just salsa in New York; and well, dance is more than just dance.  Dance in Latin American is a tool for enacting social change, it’s a form of youth empowerment, it’s a way for immigrants to hold on to ethnic roots and identity in foreign countries, and its something Harvard students and professors not only write about, but do.

The Fall issue of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America presents “Dance!: Global Transformations of Latin American Culture,” an issue that explores the growing presence of Latin American Dance international and the multiple roles it plays: from tourism to combating social ills, across the world. Dance! coincides with a major conference, Tango! Global Transformations of Latin American Culture, to be held at Harvard October 26 and 27.  Published by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, ReVista focuses on different themes in Latin America and is distributed free of charge throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe to thousands of readers.

In this special issue on dance, authors from the United States, Latin America and Australia— professors, dancers students, and community activists—discuss their varying experiences and perspectives on dance in Latin America. The issue features essays in English, paintings, drawings and photographs, along with accounts in Portuguese and Spanish. Dance promotes understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural present in the art form of dance throughout Latin America.

Many of the articles focus on dance as a tool for social empowerment, bringing to the readers’ attention that dance is not simply an art form, but also a mean of creating political and social change.  The Dance! issue also focus on the following themes: Tango!, Transforming Lives, The Diaspora Dances, Shaping Identity, Beyond the Tourist Gaze and Making a Difference.  Beyond looking at the presence and different styles of dance in Latin American countries, Dance! also looks at the multiple roles dance can play in cultures across Latin America, Spain and Latino communities in the United States.

Subscriptions and individual copies of Revista are available free of charge. Educators who wish multiple copies of ReVista for classroom use are encouraged to pay postage costs, and donations are welcomed to cover library subscriptions to Latin America. You may sign up for subscriptions (which will not include the dance issue) on-line.


ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America’s winter issue  Dance! will be available on October 19, 2007 and shortly thereafter on the DRCLAS website at http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revista.  

For classroom copies or press information, please contact:

June Carolyn Erlick
Editor-in-chief, ReVista
DRCLAS
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Publications Director at jerlick@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-5428.