Reworking the Ballet e-bog
322,59 DKK
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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 ...
E-bog
322,59 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
13 november 2007
Længde
240 sider
Genrer
ASDL
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781135922405
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.