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Author: Paul A. Scolieri (Chair & Professor of Dance, Chair & Professor of Dance, Barnard College, Columbia University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.930kg
ISBN: 9780199331062
ISBN 10: 0199331065
Pages: 552
Publication Date: 30 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
"""Impeccably researched, incredibly detailed and super approachable, Scolieri's addition to the existing scholarship on Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is real and thorough."" -- Heather Desaulniers, CriticalDance ""What a thrill to see Paul A. Scolieri's extensive research brought to life in this magnificent overview of Shawn's life and career! The historical context, contemporary perspective, and personal insights make this book both a revelation and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in learning more about the beginnings of dance in America."" -- Norton Owen , Director of Preservation, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival ""Queering the father of American Dance, Paul A. Scolieri masterfully reanimates the life of Ted Shawn from a new perspective in this layered reading of a trailblazer. Revealing Shawn as a difficult and restless artist, Scolieri plumbs archives and images to show how Shawn courted notoriety yet hid his own homosexuality under a veil of homophobia even as he steadily authored a hypermasculine identity for the male dancer. Scolieri excavates Shawn's archives skillfully, illuminating him as a difficult yet pivotal figure in early contemporary American dance history. By tracing confluences between Shawn's gendered aesthetics, eugenic paradigms and emergent sexuality studies, as well as his work as an amateur ethnographic collector of men's dances, Scolieri reveals Shawn's prototype of a male dancer as the product of these layers and shadowed by cultural borrowing and a sensual imagination."" -- Janice Ross , Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies, Stanford University"
Queering the father of American Dance, Paul A. Scolieri masterfully reanimates the life of Ted Shawn from a new perspective in this layered reading of a trailblazer. Revealing Shawn as a difficult and restless artist, Scolieri plumbs archives and images to show how Shawn courted notoriety yet hid his own homosexuality under a veil of homophobia even as he steadily authored a hypermasculine identity for the male dancer. Scolieri excavates Shawn's archives skillfully, illuminating him as a difficult yet pivotal figure in early contemporary American dance history. By tracing confluences between Shawn's gendered aesthetics, eugenic paradigms and emergent sexuality studies, as well as his work as an amateur ethnographic collector of men's dances, Scolieri reveals Shawn's prototype of a male dancer as the product of these layers and shadowed by cultural borrowing and a sensual imagination. * Janice Ross, Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies, Stanford University * What a thrill to see Paul A. Scolieri's extensive research brought to life in this magnificent overview of Shawn's life and career! The historical context, contemporary perspective, and personal insights make this book both a revelation and an indispensable resource for anyone interested in learning more about the beginnings of dance in America. * Norton Owen, Director of Preservation, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival *
Author Information
Paul A. Scolieri is Chair & Professor of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the award-winning author of Dancing the New World: Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest.
