Caribbean Studies Network Talk

Thursday 21 May 2026 , 5pm

Seminar Room 00.063, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG

Susan Homar is a Puerto Rican dance scholar, critic, and educator, and professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has written extensively on contemporary and experimental dance in Puerto Rico and previously worked as a dance critic for major newspapers on the island. Homar is co-editor of Inhabiting the Impossible: Dance and Experimentation in Puerto Rico (2023), a landmark volume documenting the island’s dance history. Her work explores the intersections of performance, identity, and cultural history.

Join us for a captivating talk as Professor Susan Homar guides us through the history of Puerto Rican Dance.

Dancers and movers who inhabit the impossible search for ways to express this in and from the body. The audience and passersby who inhabit the impossible search for and discover ways to appreciate and understand such movement. We all learn together to talk about these (as well as other) artistic products, some of which informed Inhabiting the impossible. Dance and experimentation in Puerto Rico, a groundbreaking collection of essays on contemporary dance forms in the island, edited by Homar and nibia pastrana Santiago.

Arranged by the Caribbean Studies Network and CaribOx.

Caribbean Studies Network Talk

Inhabiting the Impossible: Constructing a History of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Puerto Rican Dance