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Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage (Studies in Dance History)
Jane C. Desmond
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Description for Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage (Studies in Dance History)
Paperback. This text explores the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts and on the streets and tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded. Editor(s): Desmond, Jane C. Series: Studies in Dance History. Num Pages: 360 pages, 21 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; ASD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 664.
What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted ""Little Tramp,"" from lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of ... Read more
What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted ""Little Tramp,"" from lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Dance History
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299170547
SKU
V9780299170547
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About Jane C. Desmond
Jane C. Desmond is associate professor of American studies at the University of lowa. She has taught dance, theater, and American studies at Duke University, Cornell University, and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. She worked as a modern dancer and choreographer from 1975 to 1990 and is the author of Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea ... Read more
Reviews for Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities On And Off The Stage (Studies in Dance History)
This break-through volume opens a long overdue discussion of dance and sexuality. - Joan L. Erdman, Columbia College ""Dancing Desires brings together some of the most influential minds in dance cultural studies. This important book will find an enthusiastic readership among scholars and students of dance studies, performance studies, cultural studies, American studies, and queer studies."" - David Roman, University ... Read more