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Spaces of Encounter, Repertoires of Engagement: The Politics of Participation in 21st Century Contemporary Performance analyzes the use of audience participation in live performances that reexamine what it means to be a community. I study performances by United States-based arti…

This dissertation examines quebradita dancing, a Mexican/Mexican American social dance form that first began in the 1990s, as a performance of cultural identity and as the formation of a transnational network of kinship amongst participants across the U.S.-Mexico Border. Specifi…