 Reworking the ballet: counter-narratives and alternative bodies.
Author: Midgelow, Vida L Published: 2007 Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris, and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of classical and romantic ballets. Dr. Vida Midgelow here examines the ways in which these contemporary reworkings unveil and dismantle the basic assumptions of their texts, reconfiguring ballet to encompass changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality, and cultural difference. She views these reworkings from both theoretical and practical perspectives, including eroticism and the politics of touch, the performativity and gender, cross-casting and cross-dressing, reworkings and intertextuality, and cultural exchange and hybridity. |
