[PDF] Men Masculinities And Sexualities In Dance eBook

Author : Andria Christofidou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2021-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030772187

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This book examines men, masculinities and sexualities in Western theatrical dance, offering insights into the processes, actions and interactions that occur in dance institutions around gender-transgressive acts, and the factors that set limits to transgression. This text uses interview and observation data to analyze the conditions that encourage some boys and young men to become involved in this widely unconventional activity, and the ways through which they negotiate the gendered and sexual attachments of their professional identity. Most importantly, the book analyzes the opportunities male dancers find to develop a reflexive habitus, engage in gender transgressive acts and experiment with their sexuality. At the same time, it approaches gender and sexuality as embodied, and therefore as parts of identity that are not as easily amendable. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Dance and Performance Studies.

Author : Ramsay Burt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000537250

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This revised third edition of The Male Dancer updates and enlarges a seminal book that has established itself as the definitive study of the performance of masculinities in twentieth century modernist and contemporary choreography. In this authoritative and lively study, Ramsay Burt presents close readings of dance works from key moments of social and political change in the norms around gender and sexuality. The book’s argument that prejudices against male dancers are rooted in our ideas about the male body and behaviour has been extended to take into account recent interdisciplinary discussions about whiteness, intersectionality, disability studies, and female masculinities. As well as analysing works by canonical figures like Nijinsky, Graham, Cunningham, and Bausch, it also examines the work of lesser-known figures like Michio Ito and Eleo Pomare, as well as choreographers who have recently emerged internationally like Germaine Acogny and Trajal Harrell. The Male Dancer has proven to be essential reading for anyone interested in dance and the cultural representation of gender. By reflecting on the latest studies in theory, performance, and practice, Burt has thoroughly updated this important book to include dance works from the last ten years and has renewed its timeliness for the 2020s.

Author : Doug Risner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030900002

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This unparalleled collection, international and innovative in scope, analyzes the dynamic tensions between masculinity and dance. Introducing a lens of intersectionality, the book’s content examines why, despite burgeoning popular and contemporary representations of a normalization of dancing masculinities, some boys don’t dance and why many of those who do struggle to stay involved. Prominent themes of identity, masculinity, and intersectionality weave throughout the book’s conceptual frameworks of education and schooling, cultures, and identities in dance. Incorporating empirical studies, qualitative inquiry, and reflexive accounts, Doug Risner and Beccy Watson have assembled a unique volume of original chapters from established scholars and emerging voices to inform the future direction of interdisciplinary dance scholarship and dance education research. The book’s scope spans several related disciplines including gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, performance studies, and sociology. The volume will appeal to dancers, educators, researchers, scholars, students, parents, and caregivers of boys who dance. Accessible at multiple levels, the content is relevant for undergraduate students across dance, dance education, and movement science, and graduate students forging new analysis of dance, pedagogy, gender theory, and teaching praxis.

Author : Jennifer Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199888981

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When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes.

Author : Michael Gard
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820472669

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What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Why do men do ballet? The worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle and, overtime, produce different answers to these questions. Survey of the history of men in dance, as Nijinsky and Nureyev, and of subjects as masculinity and homosexuality.

Author : Andrew Westle
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Male dancers
ISBN :

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Research on men who dance has generally focused on the idea and experience of marginalisation. Such men and boys have been regarded as "gay" or not "real" men by virtue of their dancing. Rather than focusing on marginalisation, this study explores more diverse experiences of professional male dancers who work in three Australian contemporary dance companies, and the interconnection of gender, sexuality and dance. The institutional cultures and traditions in contemporary dance companies and the agency of these professional male dancers are examined, particularly in relation to gender (masculinity) and sexuality. The research examines the experiences of men participating in an activity beyond the commonly researched arenas in which men and masculinity are explored. The study seeks to capture the complex and nuanced ways that male dancers consider themselves as "men who dance" at a time of broad social shifts in gender expectations, which include increased acceptance of sexual diversity and non-homophobic models of "doing" masculinity. This qualitative study used ethnographic observations and interviews with 14 professional male dancers and nine key informants in three dance companies. Drawing on sociological ideas about gender, masculinity and the body, the study explores how male dancers negotiate dominant gender and sexuality discourses that have historically framed dance as problematic for men. Differences between the companies reveal that the dancers they employ must simultaneously manage professional expectations of themselves as male performers, as well as operationalise prevailing ideas of gender and sexuality as part of their daily work as dancers. Dance is a unique space where bodies, sex, sexuality and gender are less stable than other professional settings. Professional standards, company pressures, social expectations and the objectification of bodies contribute to the sexual and gender identities of these male dancers. Contemporary dance becomes a site in which masculinities are institutionally produced, enacted, performed and deployed. Male dancers also perform gender and sexuality in a very special way through the practice of dance as, and in, their daily work. These dancers are not simply dealing with gender and sexuality at an individual level or solely as a personal issue, but deal with these issues in groups, when interacting with colleagues and in the institutional cultures in which they worked. For male dancers, their masculinities are informed by both ideas and practices inherent in dance itself and their interaction with dominant assumptions about gender and sexuality.

Author : William Washabaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 100032415X

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The late nineteenth century witnessed the birth and popularization of a number of highly emotional musical styles that played on the eagerness of modern Europeans and Americans to toy with the limits of sanity and to taste the ecstasies of living on the edge. This absorbing book explores these popular, passionate musical styles -- which include flamenco, tango and rebetika -- and points out that they arose as well-intentioned intellectuals co-opted the emotional experiences most closely associated with women. In drawing those experiences out of female practice, they defined, objectified, and turned them into strategies of domination, the deepest impact of which was felt, ironically, by modern women.In bridging anthropology, sociology, cultural, media, body and gender studies, this book broadens the base of theory which has ignored the transnational world of Latin and Mediterranean popular culture and makes a powerful statement about the intersection of nationalism, sexuality, identity and authenticity.

Author : Maxine Leeds Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199845271

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Explores the feminization, sexualization, and racialization of dance in America since the 1960s.

Author : Jennifer Fisher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2009-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199739463

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While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men dance? When Men Dance offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. A first of its kind, this trenchant look at the stereotypes and realities of male dancing brings together contributions from leading and rising scholars of dance from around the world to explore what happens when men dance. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance worlds to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.

Author : Mark Broomfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0429668252

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This book is a groundbreaking exploration of black masculinity and sexual passing in American contemporary dance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City, the book features keen observations and in-depth interviews with acclaimed dancer-choreographers Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden Co-Artistic Directors of Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Ronald K. Brown, Artistic Director of Evidence. Black Queer Dance examines one of the most visible crucibles for masculinity—the male dancer—and illuminates the contradictory and conditional acceptance of black gay men’s contributions to American modern dance. The book questions the politics of "coming out" and situates a new framework of "doing out" for understanding marginalized black LGBTQ people in the 20th and 21st century. Narratives of black queer male dancers’ performance of identity reveals the challenges posed navigating strategic gender performances in a purportedly post-gay and post-race American culture. Broomfield demonstrates how the experiences of black queer, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary men expose the illusions of all masculine gender performances. Drawing on masculinity studies, dance studies, critical race and performance theory, and queer studies Black Queer Dance implicates the author’s embodied history, autoethnography, memoir and poetry that shines light on how black queer men offer an expansive vision of masculinity. This book will be a vital read for graduate and undergraduate students within dance and performance studies.