Florencia Dansilio

Florencia Dansilio holds a doctorate in the sociology of the arts from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and is a former post-doctoral fellow at the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage at the EHESS. She specializes in artistic practices and their relationship to politics and the urban dimension, particularly the performing arts and music. Her main research interests are post-dictatorship Argentine theater, the circulation of avant-gardes in the Atlantic space and the configuration of alternative artistic circuits in various cities (Buenos Aires, Montevideo, New York).

She is a research associate at the Centre de Recherche et Documentation sur les Amériques and a lecturer at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay). Florencia Dansilio is currently completing a second post-doctorate at the Laboratoire de Changement Social et Politique of the Université Paris Cité, in partnership with the Démos - Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris project. She is also a director and playwright.

The project

Title: Sociological study of the life trajectories of young people in the Démos project

"The aim of this study is to analyze the life course of young people who took part in the second and third stages of the Démos project (a music and orchestral education scheme with a social vocation, run by the Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris) between 2013 and 2015. These young people are now aged 16 and 20. They're at a pivotal age in their emotional and educational lives, an age when they need to make choices for the future, an age when they need to capitalize on what they've learned in the past. Between eight and five years after their participation in the end-of-year concert, the big event that crowns the workshops' three years: has the Demos experience opened up new perspectives for these young people? Has learning an instrument multiplied their life chances? The main aim of the study is to find out how a music teaching project with a social vocation plays a part in the secondary socialization of young people and in the acquisition of new social, artistic or professional skills. First, the aim is to find out about the "post-Demos" lives of the young participants in the teaching project: their educational, artistic or professional paths, as well as their projects and how they project themselves into the future. Secondly, the aim is to analyze the way in which the Demos Project intervenes (or not) in the individual choices of these young people."

Hosting institution: Université Paris Cité

Selective Bibliography

• 2020 Dansilio, Florencia, Le théâtre argentin post-dictature. Sociologie d’une révolution artistique, Paris, L’Harmattan, Collection Logiques Sociales, 2020. (Prix du premier livre en sociologie de l’AISLF).  
• 2024 Dansilio, Florencia, « La fabrique du son dans les home studios de la scène alternative à Montevideo : L’expérimentation artistique à l’heure de l’exposition numérique », Dossier « Mondes des studios et studios du monde : les fabriques sonores du Sud global », Volume ! (à paraître en printemps 2024)
• 2022 Dansilio, Florencia, « Le théâtre post-dictature en Argentine : rupture, hétérodoxie et émancipation ». In : Hamidi, Bérénice et Moreira, Alexandra, Le théâtre face aux dictatures. Luttes, traces, mémoires (Argentine, Brésil, Chili, Uruguay), Besançon, Les Solitaires Intempestifs, 2022.
• 2020 Dansilio, Florencia, « Les théâtres off de l'Abasto à Buenos Aires : indices de gentrification ou lieux de résistance ? », Dossier « Villes, cultures et engagements » sous la direction de Barbara Morovich et Pauline Guinard, Journal des Anthropologues, n°162- 163, 2020, pp. 135-150
• 2020 Dansilio, Florencia, «Expérimentation contre réalisme. La controverse de l’avant-garde théâtrale argentine des années 1960 : le cas du Centro de Experimentación  Audiovisual ». Dossier « Questionner les circulations des objets et des pratiques artistiques » sous la direction de Jean-Philippe Garric, Cahiers du CAP, n°8, Éditions de La Sorbonne, 2020, pp. 183-209.