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Circus Bodies - Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance (Paperback, New Ed)
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Circus Bodies - Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance (Paperback, New Ed)
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This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the
increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus
studies. Through photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents
an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the
socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our
understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators
see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are
presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement. Adeptly
locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of
bodies and their identities, Circus Bodies explores this subject
through a range of films such as Trapeze (1956) and Wings of Desire
(1987) and Tait also examines live performances including: * the
first trapeze performers: Leotard and the Hanlon Brothers * female
celebrities; Azella, Sanyeah, black French aerialist LaLa, the
infamous Leona Dare, and the female human cannonballs *
twentieth-century gender benders; Barbette and Luisita Leers * the
Codonas, Concellos, Gaonas, Vazquez and Pages troupes * imaginative
aerial acts in Cirque de Soleil and Circus Oz productions. This
book will prove an invaluable resource for all students and
scholars interested in this fascinating field.
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