Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage Contributor(s): Banes, Sally (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415111625 ISBN-13: 9780415111621 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 Annotation: "Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage" is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument "Dancing Women": * provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how women's agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feministdance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Performing Arts | Dance - Modern - Performing Arts | Dance - Classical & Ballet |
Dewey: 792.808 |
LCCN: 97-24496 |
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.09" W x 9.25" (1.09 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. |