When men dance : choreographing masculinities across borders
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When men dance : choreographing masculinities across borders
Oxford University Press, 2009
- : [hbk.]
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. In many societies, the public performance of dance is regarded as a feminine activity, so that men who dance often operate in a sea of stereotypes. This volume's scholarly essays tackles the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives.
Accompanying the theoretical chapters are a group of fascinating personal histories that complement their themes. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance world to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who
dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.
Table of Contents
- "Issues in the Pink and Blue West"
- Maverick Men in Ballet: Rethinking the "Making it Macho" Strategy (Jennifer Fisher)
- Kristopher Wojtera, Aaron Cota
- What We Know About Boys Who Dance: The Limitations of Contemporary Masculinity and Dance Education (Doug Risner) David Allan, Michel Gervais
- Is Dance a Man's Sport Too? The Performance of Athletic-Coded Masculinity on the Concert Dance Stage (Maura Keefe) Fred Strickler Rennie Harris
- Transcending Gender in Ballet's LINES (Jill Nunes Jensen) Christian Burns
- The Performance of Unmarked Masculinity (Ramsay Burt) Donald McKayle, John Pennington
- "Historical Perspectives"
- Pricked Dances: The Spectator, Dance, and Masculinity in Early 18th Century England
- (John Bryce Jordan )Seth Williams
- Gender Trumps Race? Cross-dressing in Early Blackface Minstrelsy
- (Stephen Johnson)
- Paul Babiak: Diary of "Channeling Juba" Rehearsals
- Ausdruckstanz, Worker's Culture and Masculinity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
- Yvonne Hardt
- Hellmut Gottschild
- "Legacies of Colonialism"
- Invented Hypermasculinity: Colonial Influences on Dance Styles in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan (Anthony Shay) Jamal
- Native Motion and Imperial Emotion: Male Performers of the 'Orient' and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze (Stavros Stavrou Karayanni) Namus Zokhrabov
- Ibrahim Farrah: Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Publisher (Barbara Sellers-Young) Saleem Azouka
- From Gynemimesis to Hyper-Masculinity: The Shifting Orientations of Male Performers of South Indian Court Dance (Hari Krishnan) Naatyaachaarya V.P. Dhananjayan Arun Mathai
- Appendix A: Notes on Personal History Interviews
- Appendix B: Questions for Personal History Interviews
- Notes on contributors
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