Sex, art, and audience : dance essays / Bruce E. Fleming.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- I. Do Real Men Watch Dance? -- A Parade on Worden Field -- Do Real Men Watch Dance? -- Two to Tango -- Something for Everyone to Dislike -- Youth, Old Age, and Tom Cruise -- The Trouble with Giselle -- Bad Applause -- Hopping Mad -- Danspleen -- A Reader Writes -- The Reek of the Human -- Confessions of an Apollonian Male -- Yes, but IS IT ART? -- Docent Spiders -- Notes and Queries -- II. Modern Masters -- Taylor at the American Dance Festival -- Toward a Theory of Taylor -- Keats, Taylor, and the National Gallery of Scotland -- FranceDanse: Oui Merci -- Balanchine at Opryland -- Guilty Pleasures -- Love in a Cold Climate -- Petipa's Prodigal Son -- Looking Backward -- Spring Triumphant -- Thoroughly Modernist Merce -- Talking Merce -- Open and Closed Forms -- III. Billboards and More -- Headpieces and Codpieces -- Clothes Make the Piece -- State of Darkness -- In Utter Darkness -- An Experiment in Appalachia -- In Praise of "Interesting" -- Waiting for the Millennium -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- Between the Movements -- The Problem with Improv -- Blurring Boundaries -- Billboards and More -- IV. Looking Out -- Critical Imperatives in World Dance -- Angel's Gate -- Ritual Resurgent -- Hulahula -- A Conversation in Conakry -- Cross-Culturalism Revisited -- V. Spirit and Letter -- A Conference in Copenhagen -- Bournonville in His Surround -- Toward a Theory of Dance History -- Les Ballets Suedois -- Art and Archeology -- Dance Ink Photographs -- Writing Dancing -- Body Peircing -- Marie Antoinette and the Joffrey Ballet -- Text and Transmission: A Summing-Up -- Educating the Eye -- Index.