Dance has become increasingly visible within contemporary culture: just think of reality TV shows featuring this art form. This shift brings the ballet body into renewed focus. Historically both celebrated and critiqued for its thin, flexible, and highly feminized aesthetic, the ballet body now takes on new and complex meanings at the intersections of performance art, popular culture, and fitness. The Evolving Feminine Ballet Body provides a local perspective to enrich the broader cultural narratives of ballet through historical, socio-cultural, political, and artistic lenses, redefining what many consider to be high art. Scholars in gender studies, folklore, popular culture, and cultural studies will be interested in this collection, as well as those involved in the dance world.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2018.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 792.8
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772123548 9781772123340
- LCCN
- GV1787
- LCCN Item number
- E96 2018eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxiv, 189 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00975638 (OCoLC)1019708712 (CaOOCEL)454441
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Preface 12
- Introduction | Markula & Clark 16
- I Ballet in the Contemporary Media 36
- 1 Reading the Ballet Body in Children’s Fiction | Davies 38
- 2 So You Think You Can Dance | Markula 62
- 3 Ballet-Inspired Workouts | Markula & Clark 84
- II Lived Experiences of Ballet in Contemporary Culture 110
- 4 Multiple Bodies | Clark 112
- 5 “Moving for Pleasure” | Millar 136
- 6 At the Barre | Vandekerkhove 162
- 7 Ballet for All Bodies? | Acton & Eales 186
- Conclusion | Markula & Clark 206
- Contributors 214
- Index 216
- Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press 225
