ePub Landscapes in Watercolour (Collins 30-Minute Painting) by Paul Talbot-Greaves in Arts-Photography

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Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history; recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts; Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - societys continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. Broad in its scope and compelling in its argument Dancing Women: * provides a series of re-readings of the canon; from Romantic and Russian Imperial ballet to contemporary ballet and modern dance * investigates the gaps between plot and performance that create sexual and gendered meanings * examines how womens agency is created in dance through aspects of choreographic structure and style * analyzes a range of womens images - including brides; mistresses; mothers; sisters; witches; wraiths; enchanted princesses; peasants; revolutionaries; cowgirls; scientists; and athletes - as well as the creation of various womens communities on the dance stage * suggests approaches to issues of gender in postmodern dance Using an interpretive strategy different from that of other feminist dance historians; who have stressed either victimization or celebration of women; Banes finds a much more complex range of cultural representations of gender identities.