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Author:   Vida L. Midgelow (University of Northampton, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780415976022

ISBN 10:   0415976022
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Part 1: Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice 1. Reworking the Ballet: (En)countering the Canon 1.1 Reworking the Ballet 1.2 Defining the Terms of the Discourse 1.3 Reviewing Five Giselles 1.4 Counter Discourses and the Canon 1.5 Reconsidering the Past: Reworkings as Postmodern Historiography 1.6 Reworkings as Intertextual Practices 1.7 Towards a Definition of Reworkings 2. Canonical Crossings: Narratives and Forms Revisioned 2.1 Strategies of Dissonance: Moments of Sameness 2.2 Inverting Bodies: Reformulating the Dance Vocabulary 2.3 Re-Telling Tales: New Contexts, New Narratives 2.4 Gender Bending: Cross-Casting and Cross-Dressing 2.5 Feathered Pantaloons and Homoeroticism 2.6 Hyperbole and Eccentricity 2.7 The Heterosexual Matrix and Beyond 2.8 Strategies of Dispersal: Intertextuality and the Carnivalesque Part 2: Re-Figuring the Body and the Politics of Identity 3. Female Bodies and the Erotic: Performativity, Becoming and the Phallus 3.1 Encounters Between Reworkings and Feminism 3.2 Lac de Signes (1983) and The Ballerina’s Phallic Pointe (1994) by Susan Leigh Foster 3.3 Looking-at-to-be-Looked-at-Ness: Performance and Spectacle 3.4 Trans-Contextualizing Bodies: Postmodern Parody and Hybridity 3.5 Parodic Comedy and the Performativity of Gender 3.6 The Phallus, the Penis, the Dildo and the Ballerina 3.7 O (a Set of Footnotes to Swan Lake) (2002) by Vida L Midgelow 3.8 Open Texts – Enacting Becomings 3.9 Hybrid Body – Plural Bodies – My Body 3.10 Breaking the Gaze – Inscribing a Haptic Presence 3.11 Eroticism and the Politics of Touch 4. Princely Revisions: Stillness, Excess and Queerness 4.1 Masculinities, the Male Dancer and Reworkings 4.2 The Hypochondriac Bird (1998) by Javier de Frutos 4.3 Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005) by Raimund Hoghe 4.4 In the Gaps and Absences 4.5 Excess: De Frutos and Homoeroticism 4.6 Stillness and (Dis)ability: Hoghe and the Ontology of Dance 4.7 (Auto)corpography and (Beyond) Queer Theory 5. Intercultural Encounters: Flesh, Hybridity and the Exotic 5.1 Reworkings as Intercultural Discourse 5.2 Shakti and Swan Lake (1998) 5.3 Masaki Iwana and The Legend of Giselle (Jizeru-den) (1994) 5.4 Cultural (Ex)change and Hybridity 5.5 Orientalism and the Exotic 5.6 Enter the Silver Swan: Excess and the Erotic 5.7 Fleshly Metamorphosis and Becomings in Butoh 5.8 Commodification, Appropriation and the Global Market 6. Conclusion: Transgressive Desires 6.1 Reworkings as Canonical Counter-Discourse 6.2 The Double Gesture: Beyond the Binary of Otherness 6.3 Diversity and Difference: (Re)inscribing the Body 6.4 Pleasure and Power: The (Re)eroticised Body

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Dr. Vida L Midgelow is a Reader in Performance Studies and Dance at The University of Northampton, UK and Director of The Choreographic Lab. Her research activities cross between practice-as-research and traditional written modes. She has presented papers and toured her movement based works in the UK and internationally. She has particular expertise in current European dance practices, the radical reworking of the classics, gender and sexuality in performance, choreographic methodologies and improvisation. Her essay ‘Decentred Bodies: Postfeminist Corporealities Dance’ (in The Postfeminist Handbook, 2006) brings together several of these concerns. In recent years she has also made a number of choreographic installation pieces, these include; O (a set of footnotes to Swan Lake) and Threshold : Fleshfold.

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