(Re:)claiming ballet. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adesola Akinleye.
• Editors: Akinleye, Adesola
• Contents: Introduction: Regarding claiming ballet / reclaiming ballet Part One – Histories Chapter 1: Ballet, from property to Art – Adesola Akinleye Chapter 2: Should there be a Female ballet canon? Seven Radical Acts of Inclusion - Julia Gleich and Molly Faulkner Chapter 3: Arabesque en Noir: The Persistent Presence of Black Dancers in the American Ballet World - Joselli Audain Deans Chapter 4: Portrayals of Black people from the African Diaspora in western narrative ballets – Sandie Bourne Part Two – Knowledges Chapter 5: The traces of my ballet body - Mary Savva Chapter 6: Ballet Beyond Boundaries – Personal History. Brenda Dixson Gottschild Chapter 7:“Auftanzen statt Aufgeben” and The Anti Fascist Ballet School -Elizabeth Ward Chapter 8: Dancing Across Historically Racist Borders – Kehinde Ishangi Part Three – Resiliences Chapter 9: Dance Theatre of Harlem’s radicalization of ballet in 1970s & 1980s – Theresa Ruth Howard Chapter 10: Personal testimony as social resilience - Theara J. Ward Chapter 11: “Can you feel it?”: Pioneering Pedagogies that Challenge Ballet’s Authoritarian Traditions - Jessica Zeller Chapter 12: The Ever After of Ballet – Selby Wynn Schwartz Chapter 13: Ballethnic Dance Company Builds Community: Urban Nutcracker leads the way – Nena Gilreath Part four – Consciousnesses Chapter 14: The Counterpoint Project – When Life Doesn’t Imitate Art - Endalyn Taylor Chapter 15: Ballet’s Binary Genders in a Rainbow-Spectrum World: A call for progressive pedagogies - Melonie B. Murray Chapter 16: Dancing through Black British ballet: Conversations with dancers - Adesola Akinleye and Tia-Monique Uzor Chapter 17: Ballet Aesthetics of Trauma, Development, and Functionality – Luc Vanier & Elizabeth Johnson About the contributors Index
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 792.8; Ballet
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789383638; 9781789383621
• Related ISBNs: 9781789383614
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