Ramsay Burt The male dancer

bodies, spectacle, sexualities

The Male Dancer 2nd Edition updates and enlarges a classic Routledge title that has established itself as the definitive study of the role of men in ballet, modern and postmodern dance. In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth and twenty-first century dance. Taking issue with formalist and modernist accounts of dance, which dismisses gender and sexuality as irrelevant, he argues that prejudices against male dancers are rooted in our ideas about...

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Engels | 233 pagina's | 2007

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Ramsay Burt Alien bodies

representations of modernity, 'race' and nation in early modern dance

Auteur belicht de geschiedenis van de moderne dans in Duitsland, Frankrijk en de Verenigde Staten van de jaren twintig en dertig. Aandacht voor het werk van Europese, Afro-Amerikaanse en witte Amerikaanse artiesten, zoals Josephine Baker, Martha Graham, Jean Börlin, George Balanchine, Jean Cocteau, Valeska Gert, Katherine Dunham, Fernand Leger, Kurt Jooss, Doris Humphrey.

Engels | 222 pagina's | Routledge, London [etc.] | 1998

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