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Men who dance : aesthetics, athletics & the art of masculinity / Michael Gard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Complicated conversation ; v. 9.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0820472662
  • 9780820472669
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8081 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.5 .G37 2006
Contents:
Ch. 1. A story -- Ch. 2. Pleasure, power and identity -- Ch. 3. Producing the male dancer -- Ch. 4. In the footsteps of the swan -- Ch. 5. Being a 'me' dancer -- Ch. 6. A ballet boy -- Ch. 7. A 'contemporary' dancer? -- Ch. 8. The aesthetic and the self -- Ch. 9. Pleasure, subjectivity and the 'everyday'.
Review: "Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle, and over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history of any place in culture: What is a man?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.

Ch. 1. A story -- Ch. 2. Pleasure, power and identity -- Ch. 3. Producing the male dancer -- Ch. 4. In the footsteps of the swan -- Ch. 5. Being a 'me' dancer -- Ch. 6. A ballet boy -- Ch. 7. A 'contemporary' dancer? -- Ch. 8. The aesthetic and the self -- Ch. 9. Pleasure, subjectivity and the 'everyday'.

"Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle, and over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history of any place in culture: What is a man?"--BOOK JACKET.

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