{"product_id":"a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-9780415972796","title":"A Queer History of the Ballet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter Stoneley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dance - Classical \u0026amp; Ballet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, \u003cem\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe formation of ballet in America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe queer uses of the prima ballerina\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGenet's writings for and about ballet.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46929998708887,"sku":"9780415972796","price":10902.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415972796.webp?v=1771604065","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-9780415972796","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}