Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies
ISBN-10
1135922411
ISBN-13
9781135922412
Category
Music
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2007-11-13
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vida L. Midgelow

Description

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, Vida L. Midgelow illustrates the ways in which these contemporary reworkings destroy and recreate their source material, turning ballet from a classical performance to a vital exploration of gender, sexuality and cultural difference. Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies articulates the ways that audiences and critics can experience these new versions, viewing them from both practical and theoretical perspectives, including: eroticism and the politics of touch performing gender cross-casting and cross-dressing reworkings and intertextuality cultural exchange and hybridity.

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