Spanish Dance Modernism Between Ethnography, Personality, and National Identity: Views of La Argentina from Abroad
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https://doi.org/10.12795/enclaves.2024.i04.06Palabras clave:
Spanish Dance, National Identity, Modernism, Transnational, Orientalism, ReceptionResumen
This article compares critical receptions of the Spanish dancer Antonia Mercé Luque, La Argentina, in France in 1928 and the United States in 1930. Expatriate Russian dance critic in Paris André Levinson praised La Argentina as an exemplar of Spanish classical dance and of Spanish national character. Expatriate scholar of Spanish literature in New York Federico de Onís extolled her dance as iconic of the Spanish national character but without arguing her classical vision. The comparison allows us to see the fragility of the idea of national identity itself as translated into movement and to understand it as the result of a critical reception that itself is displaced from national origins in a diasporic sense.
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