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Choreographing Mexico is a long-overdue critical study of Mexican traditional and regional dance known today as folklorico...[a] fascinating and well-researched volume...Cuellar proves that Mexican regional dance is a social embodiment that at times reproduces nationalistic tropes and at others critiques them. Choreographing Mexico is a rich exploration of how bodies in motion create and recreate the idea of a nation...Choreographing Mexico offers a welcome and new interdisciplinary look at folklorico dance as essential to Mexican cultural formations. The volume will be important for Mexicanists and scholars of dance and performance. Accessible to multiple audiences, Choreographing Mexico is for anyone interested in Mexican culture and anything Mexican. * Journal of Latin American Studies *

Choreographing Mexico is a long-overdue critical study of Mexican traditional and regional dance known today as folklórico…[a] fascinating and well-researched volume...Cuellar proves that Mexican regional dance is a social embodiment that at times reproduces nationalistic tropes and at others critiques them. Choreographing Mexico is a rich exploration of how bodies in motion create and recreate the idea of a nation...Choreographing Mexico offers a welcome and new interdisciplinary look at folklórico dance as essential to Mexican cultural formations. The volume will be important for Mexicanists and scholars of dance and performance. Accessible to multiple audiences, Choreographing Mexico is for anyone interested in Mexican culture and anything Mexican. * Journal of Latin American Studies * Cuellar’s project advocates for an attention to dance and embodiment as a meaning-making practice and informs our understanding of how Mexican nationalism was choreographed onto the body. A wealth of archival images interspersed throughout the book compliments Cuellar’s analysis. Heavy on theory, Choreographing Mexico would appeal to dance graduate students and scholars of Mexican history, nationalism . . . Cuellar’s incorporation of his own experience as a teacher and dancer grounds the work’s significance in the present and adds important and overarching insight to the ways dance forms community and contributes to individual and collective identity formation. * thINKing DANCE * Ultimately, the book offers a rich cultural analysis of dance in connection with the national construction of Mexico, which also makes it possible to apply its ideas to other periods and cultural realities. En definitiva, el libro ofrece un análisis cultural de la danza de gran riqueza en conexión con la construcción nacional de México, posibilitando también aplicar sus ideas a otras épocas y realidades culturales. * Hispania * Choreographing Mexico is a vital resource for scholars researching Mexican performance forms and cultural history . . . Queering dominant narratives and reading representations of the popular against the grain, he disrupts conventional approaches to understanding a national past. Cuellar demonstrates how embodied expression can be a site of knowledge, a resource for historical research, and a practice of world-making. * Pacific Historical Review * Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation leaves the reader well-positioned to raise further questions about the implications of contemporary, embodied folklórico dance through the gendered/gender queer spectrum. Scholars as well as general audiences with an interest in Mexican diasporic identities as expressed through folklórico’s embodied knowledges, and set in its evolving, contested histories, will find this volume a welcome addition. * Journal of Folklore *

Choreographing Mexico is a long-overdue critical study of Mexican traditional and regional dance known today as folklórico…[a] fascinating and well-researched volume...Cuellar proves that Mexican regional dance is a social embodiment that at times reproduces nationalistic tropes and at others critiques them. Choreographing Mexico is a rich exploration of how bodies in motion create and recreate the idea of a nation...Choreographing Mexico offers a welcome and new interdisciplinary look at folklórico dance as essential to Mexican cultural formations. The volume will be important for Mexicanists and scholars of dance and performance. Accessible to multiple audiences, Choreographing Mexico is for anyone interested in Mexican culture and anything Mexican. * Journal of Latin American Studies *

"Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation leaves the reader well-positioned to raise further questions about the implications of contemporary, embodied folkl�rico dance through the gendered/gender queer spectrum. Scholars as well as general audiences with an interest in Mexican diasporic identities as expressed through folkl�rico's embodied knowledges, and set in its evolving, contested histories, will find this volume a welcome addition.-- ""Journal of Folklore"" (3/4/2024 12:00:00 AM) Choreographing Mexico is a vital resource for scholars researching Mexican performance forms and cultural history . . . Queering dominant narratives and reading representations of the popular against the grain, he disrupts conventional approaches to understanding a national past. Cuellar demonstrates how embodied expression can be a site of knowledge, a resource for historical research, and a practice of world-making.-- ""Pacific Historical Review"" (2/1/2024 12:00:00 AM) Ultimately, the book offers a rich cultural analysis of dance in connection with the national construction of Mexico, which also makes it possible to apply its ideas to other periods and cultural realities. En definitiva, el libro ofrece un an�lisis cultural de la danza de gran riqueza en conexi�n con la construcci�n nacional de M�xico, posibilitando tambi�n aplicar sus ideas a otras �pocas y realidades culturales. -- ""Hispania"" (12/12/2023 12:00:00 AM) Cuellar's project advocates for an attention to dance and embodiment as a meaning-making practice and informs our understanding of how Mexican nationalism was choreographed onto the body. A wealth of archival images interspersed throughout the book compliments Cuellar's analysis. Heavy on theory, Choreographing Mexico would appeal to dance graduate students and scholars of Mexican history, nationalism . . . Cuellar's incorporation of his own experience as a teacher and dancer grounds the work's significance in the present and adds important and overarching insight to the ways dance forms community and contributes to individual and collective identity formation.-- ""thINKing DANCE"" (12/18/2023 12:00:00 AM) Choreographing Mexico is a long-overdue critical study of Mexican traditional and regional dance known today as folkl�rico...[a] fascinating and well-researched volume...Cuellar proves that Mexican regional dance is a social embodiment that at times reproduces nationalistic tropes and at others critiques them. Choreographing Mexico is a rich exploration of how bodies in motion create and recreate the idea of a nation...Choreographing Mexico offers a welcome and new interdisciplinary look at folkl�rico dance as essential to Mexican cultural formations. The volume will be important for Mexicanists and scholars of dance and performance. Accessible to multiple audiences, Choreographing Mexico is for anyone interested in Mexican culture and anything Mexican.-- ""Journal of Latin American Studies"" (3/17/2023 12:00:00 AM)"

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Manuel R. Cuellar is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures at George Washington University.

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