1st Edition

Tracing the Soul, Choreographing Transgression in Flamenco and Tauromaquia Dance and Ritual in Contemporary Spain

By Miriana M. Lausic Arratia Copyright 2026
222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyzes gesture, ritual, and performance in flamenco and tauromaquia the extended definition of bullfighting within the visual arts and poetry in contemporary Spain. Based on the author’s extensive ethnographic field research, it emerges from recent critical thinking on the body in dance and performance studies. The main argument is that flamenco and la corrida are a type of... Read more

List of Images

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Chapter 1: THE PRELUDE

Chapter 2: The Patio

2.1 My Body is Within Your Body

2.2 Tauromaquia class, Beyond the Imagination

Chapter 3: The Labyrinth

Chapter 4: INTERLUDE, OF PARENTHESIS

Chapter 5: La Corrida

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Miriana M. Lausic Arratia holds a PhD from York University, Toronto, an MFA in Choreography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Chile. She has published in Studies in Theatre and Performance, The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, and Common Ground Research Networks. Her choreography has been presented, among others, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.