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The bodies of others : drag dances and their afterlives

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

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Book/TextUse in library *MGRL 19-2546Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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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
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