What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of
sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to
queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and
sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires
asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing
bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in
film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic
prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted "Little Tramp", from
lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the
postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of same-sex social
dancing at Disneyland and the ecstatic Mardi Gras dance parties of
Sydney, Australia, this book tracks the intersections of dance and
human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each
has shifted and expanded.
The contributors come from a number of fields (literature,
history, theater, dance, film studies, legal studies, critical race
studies) and employ methodologies ranging from textual analysis and
film theory to ethnography. By embracing dance, and bodily movement
more generally, as a crucial focus for investigation, together they
initiate a new agenda for tracking the historical kinesthetics of
sexuality.
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