Voice, body, space, time: the “oral” performance San Benito in Gibraltar (Zulia, Venezuela)

Abstract

This paper emphasizes the enormous interest that the concept of performance has for the study of oral literature and orality in general, a concept whose use suggests, by relativizing the centrality of the verbal, to move from the study of “orality” to the study of oral-gesturality in its space and contexts. It is proposed to consider these “contexts” as true components of the oral-gestural performance. The documentary Los chimbángueles de San Benito or El amor del tambor (available on Vimeo), is part of this work.