E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-135-87242-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality – of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene.
Studies include:
- the perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet
- the fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet
- Tchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake
- Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity
- the formation of ballet in America
- the queer uses of the prima ballerina
- Genet’s writings for and about ballet.
Also including a consideration of how ballet’s queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.
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Introduction 1. Components: Spaces, Bodies, Movement 2. Nuns and Fairies 3. Swans 4. Queer Modernity 5. New York and the "Closed Shop" 6. The Prima and Her Fans 7. Dance of the Sailors. Conclusion