A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DANCE PARTNERSHIP IN SALSA

V diplomskem delu z naslovom Sociološka analiza plesnega partnerstva v salsi je salsa raziskana kot vrsta družabnega plesa, ki je razširjen po vsem svetu zlasti zaradi lastnosti, ki jih vsebuje. Hkrati je mogoče izvesti opis značilnosti posameznikov in družbe, v kateri delujejo. Naš namen je bil raziskati in primerjati tendence v družabnih in tekmovalnih plesih, zgodovino plesnega partnerstva pri salsi po svetu in v Sloveniji, globalni svet in sodobnost plesa ter vlogo spolov in družabnosti pri družabnem plesu. Uporabili smo opisno in primerjalno metodo, ki smo ju dopolnili z nestrukturiranimi intervjuji in analizo dokumentov. Rezultati omogočajo boljše razumevanje salse kot družabnega in kot tekmovalnega plesa. Vse te značilnosti salse so vsebovane na družabno-socialnem plesnem podiju. Osredotočili smo se na medosebne odnose pri salsi, ki smo jih pojasnili z vidika družbenih spolov postmodernega časa. Salso lahko zaradi njenega ohranjanja lastne kulture opišemo kot zaviralni mehanizem vdora sodobnosti v medosebne odnose v moderne družbe. Pri analizi smo se ves čas vračali v zgodovino omenjenih tendenc, saj nam je to omogočilo lažje razumevanje razsežnosti »latinos« kulture in njenega še danes delujočega vpliva na množice plesalcev, ki jih lahko preučujemo ali kot lokalne skupnosti ali kot subkulture.In this graduation thesis titled A sociological analysis of dance partnership in salsa is salsa researched as a sort of social dance, which is spread throughout the world due to its characteristics. At the same time it is possible to carry out a characterisation of individuals and their society. Our intention was to carry out a research and to compare tendencies in social and competitive dancing, history of dancing partnership and salsa in Slovenia and throughout the world, global world and contemporaneousness of this dance and also gender roles and sociability in social dancing. Working methods were descriptive and comparative, which were complemented with unstructured interviews and an analysis of documents. The results enable a better understanding of salsa as a social and competitive dance. All the characteristics of salsa are contained in sociable and social dance podium. We focused on interpersonal relationships in salsa, which were explained from the point of view of postmodern genders. Due to its rigidity in preserving its own culture salsa can be described as an obstructive mechanism in an invasion of contemporaneousness in interpersonal relationships in modern society. In our analysis we were always recurring to the history of mentioned tendencies. This helped us to understand the widespread Latino culture and its everlasting influence on a great number of dancers that can be studied as local communities or as subcultures