Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. Focusing on Richardson's creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socio-culturally attentive understanding of virtuosity.
Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. Focusing on Richardson's creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socio-culturally attentive understanding of virtuosity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ariel Osterweis holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and is on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Research interests include embodied performance with a focus on race, gender, and sexuality. Osterweis has worked professionally as a dancer and performer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Mia Michaels R.A.W., Heidi Latsky Dance, and Julie Tolentino, and as a dramaturg for John Jasperse and Narcissister.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Virtuosity: I Know It When I See It * Chapter One * Fame Nation: * Queer Black Masculinities and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts * Chapter Two * Choreography's Photographic Skin: Sweat, Labor, and Flesh in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater * Chapter Three * The Muse of Virtuosity: Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Choreographic Falsetto * Chapter Four * Difficult Fun: The Racial Politics of Improvisation in William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt * Chapter Five * Otherwise in Blackface: American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet's Othello * Chapter Six * Bad: Freakery, Iconicity, and Michael Jackson's Ghost * Conclusion * Desmond Richardson on Tour: Virtuosity's Futures * Index * Bibliography
* Introduction * Virtuosity: I Know It When I See It * Chapter One * Fame Nation: * Queer Black Masculinities and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts * Chapter Two * Choreography's Photographic Skin: Sweat, Labor, and Flesh in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater * Chapter Three * The Muse of Virtuosity: Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Choreographic Falsetto * Chapter Four * Difficult Fun: The Racial Politics of Improvisation in William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt * Chapter Five * Otherwise in Blackface: American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet's Othello * Chapter Six * Bad: Freakery, Iconicity, and Michael Jackson's Ghost * Conclusion * Desmond Richardson on Tour: Virtuosity's Futures * Index * Bibliography
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