{"product_id":"9780415972802-a-queer-history-of-the-ballet","title":"A Queer History of the Ballet","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length study to trace the historical connections between ballet and homosexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eDesigned for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, \u003cem\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting a series of historical case studies, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudies include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe formation of ballet in America\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe queer uses of the prima ballerina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenet’s writings for and about ballet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso including a consideration of how ballet’s queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810249650273,"sku":"9780415972802","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_14029829_jpg.jpg?v=1705535100","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780415972802-a-queer-history-of-the-ballet","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}