(Re:) claiming ballet
The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet's denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs rethinking.0This is an important contribution to dance scholarship. The contributors include professional…
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- Full title :(Re:) claiming ballet. / Adesola Akinleye.
Summary
The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing, the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet's denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs rethinking.0This is an important contribution to dance scholarship. The contributors include professional ballet dancers and teachers, choreographers, and dance scholars in the UK, Europe and the USA to give a three dimensional overview of the field of ballet beyond the traditional mainstream.0It sets out to acknowledge the alternative and parallel influences that have shaped the culture of ballet and demonstrates they are alive, kicking and have a rich history. Ballet is complex and encompasses individuals and communities, often invisiblized, but who have contributed to the diaspora of ballet in the twenty-first century. It will initiate conversations and contribute to discourses about the panorama of ballet beyond the narrow vantage point of the mainstream - White, patriarchal, Eurocentric, heterosexual constructs of gender, race and class.
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- Publication Date:2021.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Intellect Ltd
- Place of Publication:Bristol
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
The Physical Object
- Description:328 p.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781789383614, 1789383617
- oclc:on1329223488
- LC Classification:PN1560-2924
- Dewey Decimal:790.2
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