A queer history of the ballet / Peter Stoneley.

By:

Stoneley, Peter

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: x, 206 pISBN:

0415972795 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415972809 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

792.8086/6409 22

LOC classification:

GV1787 .S674 2006

Contents:

1. Components : spaces, bodies, movement -- 2. Nuns and fairies -- 3. Swans -- 4. Queer modernity -- 5. New York and the 'closed shop' -- 6. The prima and her fans -- 7. Dance of the sailors -- Conclusion : traces.

Review: "A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of the ballet. Further, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	792.80866409 STO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A372650B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of the ballet. Further, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene."--BOOK JACKET.

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