TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stoneley,Peter
TI  - A queer history of the ballet
SN  - 0415972795 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - GV1787 .S674 2006
U1  - 792.8086/6409 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Ballet
KW  - History
KW  - Homosexuality and dance
KW  - Homosexuality in dance
KW  - Sex in dance
KW  - Dance
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -