Through detailed and cleverly analysed case studies, Kate Holmes' book highlights female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s and their status as internationally popular performers in the largest live mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA.
Through detailed and cleverly analysed case studies, Kate Holmes' book highlights female solo aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s and their status as internationally popular performers in the largest live mass entertainment of the period in the UK and USA.
Kate Holmes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter. Her aerial research explores contemporary and historical audience experience from a practitioner-perspective, using approaches that include examining space, gender, and exercise history. Her research has appeared in journals, including New Theatre Quarterly and Early Popular Visual Culture , and in edited collections.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Producing allure and popularity 1. Democratising experience: Diverse transformative performance spaces 2. To glamour: A kinaesthetic fantasy of weightlessness 3. Skilful vulnerability: Showmanship and the performance of skill and risk 4. Performing and negotiating muscular femininity: Aerial celebrity and the modern girl 5. Absorbing activity into femininity: Moving bodies, citizenship, and beauty Conclusion: Updating aerial celebrity and re-evaluating practice
Introduction: Producing allure and popularity 1. Democratising experience: Diverse transformative performance spaces 2. To glamour: A kinaesthetic fantasy of weightlessness 3. Skilful vulnerability: Showmanship and the performance of skill and risk 4. Performing and negotiating muscular femininity: Aerial celebrity and the modern girl 5. Absorbing activity into femininity: Moving bodies, citizenship, and beauty Conclusion: Updating aerial celebrity and re-evaluating practice
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