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I Promise, it´s Political deals with the image the body represents in contemporary
society, full of economic and cultural meanings and references.

This research is connected to the following concepts:
∙ body representation (Judith Butler)
∙ body performativity (J.L. Austin)
∙ political potential of the body ( Toni Negri and Oscar Cornago)
. exhausting dance. Performance and the Politics of movement ( André Lepecki)
. the body of the actor (Jerzy Grotowski)
∙ the socio‐economical effects on the body (Slavoj Zizek and Milton Santos)
. the advertisement "Body by Dance," by Nike Women for Latin America

The research is situated between "politically engaged" and "ironically engaged" points of view.