The male dancer : bodies, spectacle, sexualities /
Ramsay Burt.
- Second edition.
- xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-225) and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Trouble With the Male Dancer... -- Dance, Masculinity and Representations -- Looking at the Male -- Nijinsky: Modernism and Heterodox Representations of Masculinity -- Men, Modernism and Modern American Dance -- Ted Shawn, American-ness and natural masculinity -- Martha Graham and Shawn's legacy -- Dance, modernism and the Other -- Limon, modernism and ethnicity -- Alvin Ailey and black masculinity -- Avant-Garde Strategies -- Merce Cunningham -- Steve Paxton -- Post Men -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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Sex in dance Male dancers Dance--Sociological aspects Dance--Anthropological aspects Masculinity.