Men who dance : aesthetics, athletics & the art of masculinity / Michael Gard.
"Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle, and over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as dra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
[2006]
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| Series: | Complicated conversation ;
v. 9. |
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| Summary: | "Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle, and over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history of any place in culture: What is a man?"--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0820472662 9780820472669 |
| ISSN: | 1534-2816 ; |