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Introduction Part 1: Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice 1. Conclusion: Transgressive Desires 6.1 Reworkings as Canonical Counter-Discourse 6.2 The Double Gesture:… More...

Introduction Part 1: Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice 1. Conclusion: Transgressive Desires 6.1 Reworkings as Canonical Counter-Discourse 6.2 The Double Gesture: Beyond the Binary of Otherness 6.3 Diversity and Difference: (Re)inscribing the Body 6.4 Pleasure and Power: The (Re)eroticised Body. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   Reworking the Ballet by Vida L. Midgelow Reworking the Ballet illuminates the choreographic praxis, the context and the politics of reworkings in the light of counter-canonical discourses as developed within feminism, queer theory and postcolonialism. FORMATHardcover LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher 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 touchperforming gendercross-casting and cross-dressingreworkings and intertextualitycultural exchange and hybridity. Back Cover "A very fine piece of work." - Prof. Jane Desmond, University of Illinois. From Mats Ek to Masaki Iwana, Matthew Bourne to Javier de Frutos, and Mark Morris to Susan Foster this book encompasses a wide range of choreographers to bring together seemingly disparate dance texts under the rubric of 'reworkings'. These choreographers have reworked the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets unveiling and dismantling the basic assumptions of canonical texts - challenging notions of originality and divesting them of their (specious) authority. These dances offer not simply an unrelenting critique or an uncritical celebration, rather they reconfigure the ballet to make us aware of the continuum of images and experiences. 'Reworking the Ballet' considers these dances as particular kinds of extended intertextual practice that evoke a bi-directional gaze. Seeking to bring dance reworkings into the discourse, unravelling the critical context in which these contemporary dances exist, this book articulates how we experience and or 'make sense of' reworkings when they are viewed as reworkings. Challenging and unsettling the highly coded bodies of their predecessors, reworkings of the ballet canon have re-choreographed the body such that a wider variety of bodily incarnations are encompassed allowing for divergence and multiplicity, as opposed to uniformity and sameness. Intersecting with identity politics these dances encompass changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and cultural difference. Author Biography Dr. Vida L Midgelow is a Reader in Performance Studies and Dance at The University of Northampton, UK and Director of The Choreographic Lab. Her research activities cross between practice-as-research and traditional written modes. She has presented papers and toured her movement based works in the UK and internationally. She has particular expertise in current European dance practices, the radical reworking of the classics, gender and sexuality in performance, choreographic methodologies and improvisation. Her essay 'Decentred Bodies: Postfeminist Corporealities Dance' (in The Postfeminist Handbook, 2006) brings together several of these concerns. In recent years she has also made a number of choreographic installation pieces, these include; O (a set of footnotes to Swan Lake) and Threshold : Fleshfold. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice 1. Reworking the Ballet: (En)countering the Canon 1.1 Reworking the Ballet 1.2 Defining the Terms of the Discourse 1.3 Reviewing Five Giselles 1.4 Counter Discourses and the Canon 1.5 Reconsidering the Past: Reworkings as Postmodern Historiography 1.6 Reworkings as Intertextual Practices 1.7 Towards a Definition of Reworkings 2. Canonical Crossings: Narratives and Forms Revisioned 2.1 Strategies of Dissonance: Moments of Sameness 2.2 Inverting Bodies: Reformulating the Dance Vocabulary 2.3 Re-Telling Tales: New Contexts, New Narratives 2.4 Gender Bending: Cross-Casting and Cross-Dressing 2.5 Feathered Pantaloons and Homoeroticism 2.6 Hyperbole and Eccentricity 2.7 The Heterosexual Matrix and Beyond 2.8 Strategies of Dispersal: Intertextuality and the Carnivalesque Part 2: Re-Figuring the Body and the Politics of Identity 3. Female Bodies and the Erotic: Performativity, Becoming and the Phallus 3.1 Encounters Between Reworkings and Feminism 3.2 Lac de Signes (1983) and The Ballerina's Phallic Pointe (1994) by Susan Leigh Foster 3.3 Looking-at-to-be-Looked-at-Ness: Performance and Spectacle 3.4 Trans-Contextualizing Bodies: Postmodern Parody and Hybridity 3.5 Parodic Comedy and the Performativity of Gender 3.6 The Phallus, the Penis, the Dildo and the Ballerina 3.7 O (a Set of Footnotes to Swan Lake) (2002) by Vida L Midgelow 3.8 Open Texts – Enacting Becomings 3.9 Hybrid Body – Plural Bodies – My Body 3.10 Breaking the Gaze – Inscribing a Haptic Presence 3.11 Eroticism and the Politics of Touch 4. Princely Revisions: Stillness, Excess and Queerness 4.1 Masculinities, the Male Dancer and Reworkings 4.2 The Hypochondriac Bird (1998) by Javier de Frutos 4.3 Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005) by Raimund Hoghe 4.4 In the Gaps and Absences 4.5 Excess: De Frutos and Homoeroticism 4.6 Stillness and (Dis)ability: Hoghe and the Ontology of Dance 4.7 (Auto)corpography and (Beyond) Queer Theory 5. Intercultural Encounters: Flesh, Hybridity and the Exotic 5.1 Reworkings as Intercultural Discourse 5.2 Shakti and Swan Lake (1998) 5.3 Masaki Iwana and The Legend of Giselle (Jizeru-den) (1994) 5.4 Cultural (Ex)change and Hybridity 5.5 Orientalism and the Exotic 5.6 Enter the Silver Swan: Excess and the Erotic 5.7 Fleshly Metamorphosis and Becomings in Butoh 5.8 Commodification, Appropriation and the Global Market 6. Conclusion: Transgressive Desires 6.1 Reworkings as Canonical Counter-Discourse 6.2 The Double Gesture: Beyond the Binary of Otherness 6.3 Diversity and Difference: (Re)inscribing the Body 6.4 Pleasure and Power: The (Re)eroticised Body Review Quote "A very fine piece of work." - Prof. Jane Desmond, University of Illinois. Details ISBN0415976022 Pages 240 Language English ISBN-10 0415976022 ISBN-13 9780415976022 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2007 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Short Title REWORKING THE BALLET DOI 10.1604/9780415976022 AU Release Date 2007-11-08 NZ Release Date 2007-11-08 UK Release Date 2007-11-08 Author Vida L. Midgelow Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2007-11-08 Alternative 9780415976039 DEWEY 792.82 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENTPeace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:157280946; , Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780415976022, Publication Year: 2007, Format: Hardcover, Language: English, Book Title: Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies, Item Height: 234mm, Item Width: 156mm, Item Weight: 499g, Number of Pages: 240 Pages, Taylor & Francis LTD<

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