A Queer History of the Ballet

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Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet specializes in how, as makers and as audiences, queer women and men have helped to develop among the texts, images, and legends of ballet.

Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways wherein, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality – of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for those who were another way declared illegal and obscene.

Studies include:

  • the perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet
  • the fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet
  • Tchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake
  • Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity
  • the formation of ballet in America
  • the queer uses of the prima ballerina
  • Genet’s writings for and about ballet.

Also including a consideration of how ballet’s queer tradition has been memorialized by such recent dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, that is an very important book within the study of ballet and queer history.


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