TY - BOOK ID - 32353447 TI - A queer history of the ballet PY - 2006 SN - 9780415972802 0415972809 0415972795 9780415972796 9780203968499 0203968492 9781135872380 9781135872427 9781135872434 PB - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Ballet KW - Homosexuality and dance KW - Homosexuality in dance KW - Sex in dance. KW - Dance KW - Homosexualité et danse KW - Homosexualité dans la danse KW - Sexualité dans la danse KW - Danse KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Histoire KW - Aspect social KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Theatrical science KW - anno 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32353447 AB - Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, "A Queer History of the Ballet" focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet. Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene. The studies include: the perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet; the fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet; Tchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake; Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity; the formation of ballet in America; the queer uses of the prima ballerina; and Genet's writings for and about ballet. Also including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history. ER -