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(Re:) claiming ballet / Adesola Akinleye, editor/curator.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Reclaiming ballet
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part 1 Histories p. 9
- 1 Ballet, from property to art p. 10 / Adesola Akinleye
- 2 Should there be a female ballet canon? Seven radical acts of inclusion p. 29 / Julia Gleich and Molly Faulkner
- 3 Arabesque en noire: The persistent presence of Black dancers in the American ballet world p. 48 / Joselli Audain Deans
- 4 Portrayals of Black people from the African diaspora in Western narrative ballets p. 68 / Sandie Bourne
- Part 2 Knowledges p. 87
- 5 The traces of my ballet body p. 88 / Mary Savva
- 6 Ballet beyond boundaries: A personal history p. 99 / Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- 7 Auftanzen statt Aufgeben and the And Fascist Ballet School p. 116 / Elizabeth Ward
- 8 Dancing across historically racist borders p. 129 / Kehinde Ishangi
- Part 3 Resiliences p. 147
- 9 The Dance Theatre of Harlem's radicalization of ballet in the 1970s and 1980s p. 148 / Theresa Ruth Howard
- 10 'Showgirl with red pointe shoes': Personal testimony as social resilience p. 168 / Theara J. Ward
- 11 'Can you feel it?': Pioneering pedagogies that challenge ballet's authoritarian traditions p. 172 / Jessica Zeller
- 12 The ever after of ballet p. 189 / Selby Wynn Schwartz
- 13 Ballethnic Dance Company builds community: Urban Nutcracker leads the way p. 209 / Nena Gilreath
- Part 4 Consciousnesses p. 223
- 14 The Counterpoint Project: When life doesn't imitate art p. 224 / Endalyn Taylor
- 15 Ballet's binary genders in a rainbow-spectrum world: A call for progressive pedagogies p. 240 / Melonie B. Murray
- 16 Dancing through Black British ballet: Conversations with dancers p. 255 / Adesola Akinleye and Tia-Monique Uzor
- 17 Ballet aesthetics of trauma, development and functionality p. 275 / Luc Vanier and Elizabeth Johnson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 9781789383621
- 1789383625
- 9781789383638
- 1789383633
- Publisher Number:
- 40030514110
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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