Everynight Life

“Everynight Life is a valuable book because it tells the histories of under-documented Latin American dance styles, but it is also a necessary book because, its writers, by acknowledging the human body as a carrier of social and political histories, broaden the scope of dance scholarship.” - Anita González , Dance Research Journal

“Everynight Life is an attempt to deal with a wide number of issues related to dance as ‘the privileged site in the production of cultural identities’. . . . Most articles question simplistic polarities (black/white, native/foreign) and explore the complexities of translation and translocation. . . . [T]he essays question our stereotypes of nations and borders, and the notion of Latinidad.” - TLS

“Everynight Life is a major contribution to the ongoing investigation of specific cultural practices heretofore ignored by traditional academic investigation. It will be of specific value to scholars and critics studying issues of performance and performativity as they inform practices of subject-formation in its political, cultural, and sexual dimensions.” - Ricardo Ortiz, Dartmouth College

“This is an exciting and an important book, just the kind of contribution that many of us have been eager to find. It weaves politics with popular culture, national borders with rhythm. In short it’s up-to-date in terms of intellectual issues, and sensitively down-to-earth in ways that make practical sense.” - Doris Sommer, Harvard University