Melissa Blanco Borelli, a Lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Surrey, teaches courses on identity politics, dance and culture, choreographing writing, and Latin American film. She has a PhD from UC Riverside’s program in Dance History and Theory (now Critical Dance Studies) and is currently researching the Cuban mulata dancing body and comparative social dance histories in New Orleans and Havana.
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Becomings and belongings: Lucy Guerin’s The Ends of Things
Melissa Blanco Borelli uses some of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s postmodern philosophical ideas of becoming, and Elspeth Probyn’s provocative conceptualisation of belonging, as ways to theoretically read choreography.