The Routledge Introduction to Ballet, its Culture and Issues

Author:   Jennifer Fisher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367434762


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   24 December 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jennifer Fisher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780367434762


ISBN 10:   0367434768
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   24 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The ballet landscape Chapter 2 Ballet is actually a form of ethnic dance Chapter 3 The culture of ballet practice Chapter 4 Gender, love, and ballet duets Chapter 5 Ballet and exclusion Chapter 6 Ballet and revolution Chapter 7 Unpacking The Nutcracker Chapter 8 Audiences and the dance of the spectator

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Jennifer Fisher is the author of Nutcracker Nation (2003), Ballet Matters (2019), and co-editor of When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders (2009). A professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA, she is the founding editor of Dance Major Journal, https://escholarship.org/uc/dmj. Formerly a performer and journalist, Fisher wrote about dance for the Los Angeles Times for many years and has published scholarly articles on topics that include ballet and whiteness, interviewing skills, ballet and gender, the dangers of “so-called” lyrical dance, and Anna Pavlova and the Swan Brand. She is also a ballet coroner whose most recent inquests into the death of Giselle were held at the San Francisco Ballet.

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