Abstract

AGREDA CARBONELL, Silvia. Where to gaze?: Cultural policies for dance. Desde el Sur [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.4, e0054.  Epub Oct 30, 2023. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/e0054.

We are bodies in trajectory. And our movements reflect specific experiences, changes in society and how we produce and reproduce culture. Although in Peru in the last 13 years - taking as a time frame the operational period of the Ministry of Culture- many measures and strategies have been implemented to promote the performing arts, little has been done specifically for dance. In this article I postulate that the logic and characteristics that we associate with the practice of stage dance in Perú are aligned with the dance industry produced from the Global North -economic value, forms of labour, management strategies- and that it has not been carried out an in-depth analysis of the ways to create, produce and participate in dance in our country, which would allow us to introduce a globalized body, collective creation and small formats. For this reason, the policies applied to dance do not yet generate substantial changes for the take-off of the local sector, but rather they deepen the problems associated with cultural industries, and strengthen the Western view of southern bodies.

Keywords : Cultural policy; Contemporary Dance; movement practice; Ministry of Culture; culture industry; folklore.

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