Abstract
ABSTRACTThe primary goal of this study is to shed new light on the meteoric rise (and fall) of maxixe dancing, from Rio de Janeiro’s practices and performances in the late 1800s to its international explosion in Parisian venues in the 1910s, and subsequent codification in USA dance manuals published in 1914. Building on my previous scholarship, I examine how different kinds of bodies have articulated maxixe at four distinct scenarios, paying close attention to the positionality of female partners and their interactions. Using the scholarship of Savigliano, Velloso, Kraut, Goldman, Lowe, Foster, Santos and Mignolo, I address (a) how this partner dance functioned at the bodily level (how it was executed or described), (b) the (socio-political) roles it assumes and (c) the effects it produces (from discourses to affects).
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