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Gabriela Barra Arellano is a university student of fourth year of the career of Anthropology in the University of Chile, ready to be licensed in the social area. Since she entered to study, in the year 2017, she showed interest about gender and body themes and like this factors mold people in society. For this reason in the second study year, with next to the paradigm shift brought by the new feminist wave, she began to experience that dance that she loves to practice from the corporality that guides you towards self-knowledge and reflection. Thus, under these ideas she began to see that dance and its corporality could generate a good focus in anthropology for be one of the most ancestral practices that have addressed the human and demonstrated its essence. In the third year of studies she tried to flirt more to the branches that would serve her more for that vision and was assistant ethnohistory and ethnography. Already in the present year Gabriela has taken several gender courses. Regrettably the anthropology department of her university does not have specialized areas in the anthropology of body.  Due to this impediment, she has been forced to investigate elsewhere both internal and external to the university. Actually is working for his future thesis on the role of the corporality of women in classical dance with the help of the Municipal theater of Santiago.