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ISBN 10: 0415975751
ISBN 13: 978-0415975759
Author: R. Burt
In this challenging and lively book, Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance. The Male Dancer has proven to be essential reading for anyone interested in dance and the cultural construction of gender.
Table of contents:
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THE TROUBLE WITH THE MALE DANCER
Gender norms and binary ways of thinking
The subject and modern body
Degeneracy and masculinity
Homophobia and the male dancer
The male ballet dancer during the nineteenth century: green box trees
Homosexuality and the male dancer: the dance that does not speak its name -
LOOKING AT THE MALE
The spectator and the gaze
Choreographer-centred and spectator-centred dance analysis
Performative speech acts and dance performance
The male dancer and the gaze
Naturalising male violence
Black male dancing bodies and whiteness
Masculinity and presence
Conclusion -
NIJINSKY
Ballets Russes and homosexuality
Male prowess in Nijinsky’s roles
Nijinsky as genius
Nijinsky’s unorthodox roles in Fokine’s ballets
The relationship of myth and modernism
Nijinsky’s ballets and gender representation
Nijinska and gender representation
L’Homme et son désir and Les Biches -
AMERICAN MEN
Men in the US
Shawn’s men
Male dancing after Shawn
Graham’s men
Limón, modernism, and ethnicity
The Moor’s Pavane and the dangers of male intimacy -
DANCING IN THE CITY
Alvin Ailey and black masculinity
Merce Cunningham’s anti-hierarchical structures
Steve Paxton and contact improvisation
Conclusion -
MASCULINITY AND LIBERATION
Bausch’s Sacre: men and shame
Bausch’s Bluebeard and the landscape of men’s souls
Changing men: Are You Right There Michael, Are You Right?
Jones and Zane dancing together
Redistributing male energy in Set and Reset -
IDENTITY POLITICS
Clark and betrayal
Morris and the instability of sex and gender
Goode, ghosts, violence, and the politics of camp
DV8 and lonely men
Playing down sexuality in Swan Lake -
POST MEN
Displacing masculinity
Women choreographers, male dancers
Refiguring the relationship between performer and spectator
Three male-male duets
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