Reworking the ballet : counter-narratives and alternative bodies / Vida L. Midgelow

By:

Midgelow, Vida L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: XIV, 223 p. : il. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780415976039

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Contents:

Conté: Introduction -- Reworking the ballet : (en)countering the canon -- Canonical crossings : narratives and forms revisioned -- Female bodies and the erotic : performativity, becoming and the phallus -- Princely revisions : stillness, excess and queerness -- Intercultural encounters : flesh, hybridity and the exotic -- Conclusion: Transgressive desires

Summary: "Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets." "In this book, Dr. Vida Midgelow examines the ways in which these contemporary reworkings unveil and dismantle the basic assumptions of their texts, reconfiguring ballet to encompass changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and cultural difference." -- Contracoberta

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Bibliografia docent	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	793.4 MID (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		1900073481	Anàlisi i pràctica del repertori Proves accés

Bibliografia p. [202]-216. Índex

"Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets." "In this book, Dr. Vida Midgelow examines the ways in which these contemporary reworkings unveil and dismantle the basic assumptions of their texts, reconfiguring ballet to encompass changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and cultural difference." -- Contracoberta

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