ADDA HÜNICKEN Y LA REVOLUCIÓN DE LOS PIES DESCALZOS:: apuntes para la escritura de una historia de la danza moderna en Córdoba

This in-process research discusses Adda Hünicken’s (Córdoba, 1933-2013) joint trajectory as teacher, choreographer and groundbreaker of modern dancing in Córdoba.  Based on Carlo Ginzburg’s evidential paradigm, we identify revealing filiations for the situated study of modern dancing. During this research process, there appeared suggestive questions that led us to problematize inherited universalizing perspectives. Is it possible to write a situated history of modern dancing? How did that history –of European and North American origin- impact “local” bodies? Through what voices and bodies can we analyze the cultural and artistic events of a period? These questions gave rise to other aspects of the problem: the account of living experience, the account of dancing experience, the construction of the myth, oblivion, and the need of chronicles that look into fragments of past and recent history, with authenticity. In this work, we include part of a 2010 interview to the choreographer, as well as crossed accounts, discussed in two interviews to ballerina-choreographers María Rosa Hakimián and Marta Huerta who developed part of their artistic work with Hünicken, testimonies that inscribe a history of modern dancing in Córdoba.