Dance as construction of new homes and new borders

Abstract

The unstable contemporary society, which includes the complexity of bodily technologies, infringes the concepts of home and border that is compatible with the subjectivity of migrants, who, far from their own, opt to integrate themselves into other cultural horizons; for this purpose, they begin with their bodies and appearances, taking into account the sophistication of their bodily expressivities as aesthetic referents of transformation. In this paper we show, from two life stories, how the body’s own technologies of dance, become mediators in the construction of local leadership and alternate citizenships.