Research Catalog

Title

The bodies of others : drag dances and their afterlives / Selby Wynn Schwartz.

Author

Schwartz, Selby Wynn, 1975-

Publication

• Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

ix, 285 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, this book delves into four decades of drag dances on American stages, tracing the ways in which bodies can be imagined otherwise. Drag dances take us beyond glittery one-liners and into the spaces between gender norms. In these backstage histories, we see dancers who give their bodies over to other selves, opening up the category of realness. When realness becomes a practice, dancing can become a way of restaging the histories of bodies. The book maps out a drag politics of embodiment, connecting drag dances to queer hope, memory, and mourning. There are aging etoiles, midnight shows, mystical seances, and all of the dust and velvet of divas in their dressing-rooms. But these forty years of drag dances are also a cultural history, including Mark Morris dancing the death of Dido in the shadow of AIDS, and the swans of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo sketching an antiracist vision for ballet. Drawing on queer theory, dance history, and the embodied practices of dancers themselves, The Bodies of Others examines the ways in which drag dances undertake the work of a shared queer and trans politics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on performance, gender and sexuality, and embodiment"--

Series Statement

Triangulations : lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance

Uniform Title

Triangulations.

Subject

• Gender identity in dance
• Sex in dance
• Drag shows
• Female impersonators
• PERFORMING ARTS > Dance > Classical & Ballet
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.

Call Number

*MGRL 19-2546

ISBN

• 9780472074099
• 0472074091
• 9780472054091
• 0472054090
• 9780472125029 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018054046

OCLC

1055830941

Author

Schwartz, Selby Wynn, 1975- author.

Title

The bodies of others : drag dances and their afterlives / Selby Wynn Schwartz.

Publisher

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Triangulations : lesbian/gay/queer theater/drama/performance

Triangulations.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Schwartz, Selby Wynn, 1975- Bodies of others. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019 9780472125029 (DLC) 2018061314

Research Call Number

*MGRL 19-2546