Learning in Difference: Difference as a Pedagogical Tool

Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections

“…Often categorized under the generic label of nonverbal communication, it is as if something magical happens when people start dancing together. Little consideration is generally given, outside arts-based and somatic inquiry, to the expressive bodily contours of rhythmic connection (Cancienne & Snowber, 2003;Sheets-Johnstone, 2011;Stern, 2010) and the kinesthetically and energetically felt dynamics of dancing across bodily cast and complexioned differences (Bergonzoni, 2022;Snowber, 2011).…”