The Male Dancer Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality By: Ramsay Burt Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415089005, 041508900X eText ISBN: 9781134962259, 1134962258 Edition: 1st Pages: 240 Copyright year: 1995 Format: EPUB Available from $ 21.58 USD SKU 9781134962259R90 In this challenging and lively book, Ramsay Burt examines the representation of masculinity in twentieth century dance. Taking issue with formalist and modernist accounts of dance, which dismiss gender and sexuality as irrelevant, he argues that prejudices against male dancers are rooted in our ideas about the male body and male behaviour. Building upon ideas about the gendered gaze developed by film and feminist theorists, Ramsay Burt provides a provocative theory of spectorship in dance. He uses this to examine the work of choreographers like Nijinsky, Graham, Bausch, while relating their dances to the social, political and artistic contexts in which they were produced. Within these re-readings, he identifies a distinction between institutionalised modernist dance which evokes an essentialist, heroic, `hypermasculinity'; one which is valorised with reference to nature, heterosexuality and religion, and radical, avant garde choreography which challenges and disrupts dominant ways of representing masculinity. The Male Dancer will be essential reading for anyone interested in dance and the cultural construction of gender. Additional ISBNs 9786610871971, 9781280052675, 9781134962266, 9781134962211, 9781134962259, 6610871973, 1280052678, 1134962266, 1134962215, 1134962258, 9780415088992, 9780415089005, 0415088992, 041508900X Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/mhf1T7
