Yes? no! maybe-- : seductive ambiguity in dance /
Emilyn Claid.
- x, 245 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Setting the scene -- X6 : a hinge in time -- Yes? : fantasies of perfection : setting the scene for change -- The upward line -- Watching ballet : illusion becoming real -- Performing ballet : real becoming illusion -- Classical androgyny -- Cracking the myth -- The Oedipal narrative -- An articulate silence -- Dying to please -- No! : coming down to earth as dancing subjects -- Expressions from the lifeworld -- Figures of parody -- Subverting tragedy -- Feminist battles with androgyny -- Within the frame of new dance -- Letting go of the mirror -- Figures of jouissance -- K/no/w body of illusion : seduction in reverse -- Derrida's presents -- Parallel emergences -- Different visibilities -- Negation of seduction -- The other of the other -- Kristeva's crunch -- Collective strategies -- The X6 legacy -- Drawn to the mainstream -- Repertory versus project -- Middle mush -- Maybe ... : depth becomes surface and ambiguous points of play -- Process to product -- Full body empty body -- The chameleon -- Boys transcending -- His look, his gaze -- Bodies of pleasure -- Letting go of fear -- Re-figuring androgyny -- Queer living -- Re-dressing the girls -- Eye flight. 1. 2. I. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. II. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. III. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
"Yes? No! Maybe ... Seductive Ambiguity in Dance is a book about performing and watching dance. Using a unique combination of historical, academic and autobiographical voices it covers 50 years of British dance, from Margot Fonteyn in the 1950s to innovative contemporary practitioners such as Wendy Hustoun, Nigel Charnock, Lloyd Newson, Javier de Frutos and Fin Walker."--BOOK JACKET.