Dance and popular religiosity: the matachines in Ciudad Juárez

When words are not enough to express the significance of one moment, then the body becomes the recurrent source for expressing emotions and feelings. That is why dance is considered as a media with such high expressive potential that enables the process of unlimited semiosis, mentioned by Peirce and...

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Autor: Daniela Guadalupe Córdova Ortega
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE CIUDAD JUÁREZ
Repositorio:Chihuahua hoy
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai:erevistas.uacj.mx:article/5619
Acceso en línea:https://erevistas.uacj.mx/ojs/index.php/ChihuahuaHoy/article/view/5619
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:acontecimiento
cuerpo
danza
religiosidad popular
semiosis
HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA
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body
dance
happening
popular religiosity
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Sumario:When words are not enough to express the significance of one moment, then the body becomes the recurrent source for expressing emotions and feelings. That is why dance is considered as a media with such high expressive potential that enables the process of unlimited semiosis, mentioned by Peirce and Eco in which the sign —dance— is understood as an instant that “cannot be interpreted [...] without translating into other signs —wheter or not they belong to the same semiotic system—” (Zeccheto et al., 2005, p. 205). In other words, dance offers a wide range of interpretative responses to both, the performer and the viewer. Therefore, is not surprising the connection between religion and dance, since both are the medium of manifestation that support the enunciative necessity of beliefs and ideologies that, most of the time, go beyond the habitual understanding of the individuals.