{"product_id":"a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-9780415972802","title":"A Queer History of the Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003eDesigned for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, \u003cem\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe formation of ballet in America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe queer uses of the prima ballerina\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGenet's writings for and about ballet.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-330949\"\u003ePeter Stoneley\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.54h x 5.60w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415972802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415972809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER003010\"\u003eDance | Classical \u0026amp; Ballet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER011000\"\u003eTheater | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44686598668525,"sku":"9780415972802","price":82.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6d4d1f85-533c-4d15-9557-5f0ae02bfb3f.jpg?v=1703645481","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-9780415972802","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}