Dr. Marta Savigliano

Marta Elena Savigliano holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She is the Professor Emerita in Critical Dance Studies at University of California, Riverside/World Arts & Cultures/Dance at UC Los Angeles. Savigliano was the President at Congress on Research in Dance (2010-2014), and is the Co-Director of GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies) in Buenos Aires. She was the Visiting Scholar at  Sage Cowles Land Grant Chair, Dance Department, University of Minnesota (2016); Invited Fellow in Interweaving Performance Cultures, International Research Center, at Freie Universitat Berlin (2011-2012).

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Savigliano is an Argentine political theorist and anthropologist interested in the politics of culture, including the transnational traffic of cultural goods, workers, ideologies and affects under global capitalism.  She is the author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (Westview, 1995), translated into Turkish, Slovene and Japanese, which received the Congress of Research on Dance Award for Outstanding Book 1993-1996. Her second book, Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North-South Translation (Wesleyan UP, 2003) includes ethnographic essays, film criticism, and a tango-opera libretto.  Angora Matta, the tango-opera, was premiered in 2002 at the Teatro Presidente Alvear, Buenos Aires.

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