Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800 (Studies in Dance History)

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Like the history of women, dance has been difficult to capture as a historical subject. Yet in bringing together these two areas of study, the nine across the world renowned scholars on this volume shed new and surprising light on women’s roles as performers of dance, choreographers, shapers of aesthetic trends, and patrons of dance in Italy, France, England, and Germany before 1800.
    Through dance, women asserted power in spheres in large part dominated by men: the court, the theater, and the church. As women’s dance worlds intersected with men’s, their lives and visions were supported or opposed, creating a complex politics of creative, spiritual, and political expression. From a women’s religious order within the thirteenth-century Low Countries that used dance as a non secular rite of passage to the salon culture of eighteenth-century France where dance turned into an integral a part of women’s cultural influence, the writers on this volume explore the that means of these women’s stories, performances, and dancing bodies, demonstrating that dance is in point of fact a field across which women have moved with finesse and power for lots of centuries past.

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