"Lieux de memoire, the place of memory, has two senses here: the body as the site of production of cultural memory and the body as the object of the history remembered. The dancing body not only writes counterhistory, but the dance resists and reconfigures the subjugating history written on the enslaved or laboring body."

- Celeste Fraser Delgado, “Preface: Politics in Motion” in Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America

(i seriously just need to go ahead and tattoo this on my forehead)