Reworking the Ballet - Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies (Paperback, New Ed)

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 touch performing gender cross-casting and cross-dressing reworkings and intertextuality cultural exchange and hybridity.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Vida L. Midgelow
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-97603-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Dance > Ballet
LSN:	0-415-97603-0
Barcode:	9780415976039

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