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Body impossible : Desmond Richardson and the politics of virtuosity / Ariel Osterweis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osterweis, Ariel, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in dance theory.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in dance theory
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Richardson, Desmond.
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (New York, N.Y.).
- Complexions (Dance company)--History.
- Complexions (Dance company).
- Male dancers--United States--South Carolina--Biography.
- Male dancers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 224 pages) : color illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 'Body Impossible' theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. Focusing on Richardson's creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socio-culturally attentive understanding of virtuosity.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Virtuosity: I Know It When I See It
- 1. Fame Nation: Queer Black Masculinities and a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts
- 2. Choreography's Photographic Skin: Sweat, Labor, and Flesh in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- 3. The Muse of Virtuosity: Complexions Contemporary Ballet and Choreographic Falsetto
- 4. Difficult Fun: The Racial Politics of Improvisation in William Forsythe's Ballett Frankfurt
- 5. Otherwise in Blackface: American Ballet Theatre and San Francisco Ballet's Othello
- 6. Bad: Freakery, Iconicity, and Michael Jackson's Ghost
- Conclusion: Desmond Richardson on Tour: Virtuosity's Futures.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Osterweis, Ariel. Body impossible
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064585-7
- 0-19-064583-0
- OCLC:
- 1414977195
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