Vida L. Midgelow

Reworking the Ballet (eBook, ePUB)

Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 touch
• performing gender
• cross-casting and cross-dressing
• reworkings and intertextuality
• cultural exchange and hybridity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135922405
• Artikelnr.: 38266310

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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