ISBN:
9780199377343
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/846
Keywords:
Gays and the performing arts
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Queer Dance challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The book joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.
Abstract:
Cover -- Queer Dance Meanings and Makings -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- How to Use the Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings Website -- Video Material Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Queering the Stage -- 1. To be a Showboy -- 2. "Our Love Was Not Enough": Queering Gender, Cultural Belonging, and Desire in Contemporary Abhinaya -- 3. Women Dancing Otherwise: The Queer Feminism of Gu Jiani's Right & -- Left -- 4. The Hysterical Spectator: Dancing with Feminists, Nellies, Andro-dykes, and Drag Queens -- 5. Chasing Feathers: Jérôme Bel, Swan Lake, and the Alternative Futures of Re-enacted Dance -- 6. Dancing Marines and Pumping Gasoline: Coded Queerness in Depression-Era American Ballet -- 7. Queer Spaces in Anna Sokolow's Rooms -- Part II: Dancing toward a Queer Sociality -- 8. Queer Dance in Three Acts -- 9. In Praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club -- 10. An Buachaillín Bán: Reflections on One Queer's Performance within Traditional Irish Music and Dance -- 11. Aunty Fever: A Queer Impression -- 12. Last Cowboy Standing: Testing a Critical Choreographic Inquiry -- 13. RMW(a) & -- RMW from the Inside Out -- Part III: Intimacy -- 14. Futari Tomo: A Queer Duet for Taiko -- 15. "Oh No! Not This Lesbian Again": The Punany Poets Queer the Pimp-Ho Aesthetic -- 16. Choreographing the Chronic -- 17. Expressing Life through Loss: On Queens That Fall with a Freak Technique -- References -- Index.
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