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(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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Chicago, IL :
Intellect,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Regarding claiming ballet/ reclaiming ballet
- Part One Histories
- 1. Ballet, from property to art
- 2. Should there be a female ballet canon? Seven radical acts of inclusion
- 3. Arabesque en noire: The persistent presence of Black dancers in the American ballet world
- 4. Portrayals of Black people from the African diaspora in Western narrative ballets
- Part Two Knowledges
- 5. The traces of my ballet bod
- 6. Ballet beyond boundaries: A personal history
- 7. Auftanzen statt Aufgeben and the Anti Fascist Ballet School
- 8. Dancing across historically racist borders
- Part Three Resiliences
- 9. The Dance Theatre of Harlem's radicalization of ballet in the 1970s and 1980s
- 10. 'Showgirl with red pointe shoes': Personal testimony as social resilience
- 11. 'Can you feel it?': Pioneering pedagogies that challenge ballet's authoritarian traditions
- 12. The ever after of ballet
- 13. Ballethnic Dance Company builds community: Urban Nutcracker leads the way
- Part Four Consciousnesses
- 14. The Counterpoint Project: When life doesn't imitate art
- 15. Ballet's binary genders in a rainbow- spectrum world: A call for progressive pedagogies
- 16. Dancing through Black British ballet: Conversations with dancers
- 17. Ballet aesthetics of trauma, development and functionality