Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage”Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage” is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by – and that in part shape – society’s continuing debates about sexuality and female identity.Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument “Dancing Women”: Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians, who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women, Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities. Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Only $42.27, regularly priced $45.94 + Free Shipping right HERE ← on Walmart.com.
- provides a series of re-readings of the canon, from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance
- investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings
- examines how women’s agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style
- suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance
