Introduction
PART I ISSUES IN THE PINK AND BLUE WEST
1. Maverick Men in Ballet: Rethinking the "Making it Macho"
Strategy
Jennifer Fisher
Kristopher Wojtera
Aaron Cota
2. What We Know About Boys Who Dance: The Limitations of
Contemporary Masculinity and Dance Education
Doug Risner
David Allan and Michel Gervais
3. Is Dance a Man's Sport Too? The Performance of Athletic-Coded
Masculinity on the Concert Dance Stage
Maura Keefe
Fred Strickler
Rennie Harris
4. Transcending Gender in Ballet's LINES
Jill Nunes Jensen
Christian Burns
5. The Performance of Unmarked Masculinity
Ramsay Burt
Donald McKayle
John Pennington
PART II HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
6. Pricked Dances: The Spectator, Dance, and Masculinity in Early
18th Century England
John Bryce Jordan
Seth Williams
7. Gender Trumps Race? Cross-dressing in Early Blackface
Minstrelsy
Stephen Johnson
Paul Babiak: Diary of "Channeling Juba" Rehearsals
8. Ausdruckstanz, Worker's Culture and Masculinity in Germany in
the 1920s and 1930s
Yvonne Hardt
Hellmut Gottschild
PART III LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM
9. Invented Hypermasculinity: Colonial Influences on Dance Styles
in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan
Anthony Shay
Jamal
10. Native Motion and Imperial Emotion: Male Performers of the
'Orient' and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze
Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
Namus Zokhrabov
11. Ibrahim Farrah: Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Publisher
Barbara Sellers-Young
Saleem Azouka
12. From Gynemimesis to Hyper-Masculinity: The Shifting
Orientations of Male Performers of South Indian Court Dance
Hari Krishnan
Naatyaachaarya V.P. Dhananjayan
Arun Mathai
Appendix A: Notes on Personal Histories
Notes on contributors
Index
Jennifer Fisher is Associate Professor of Dance, University of
California - Irvine, and author of Nutcracker Nation: How an Old
World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World
(2003).
Anthony Shay is Assistant Professor of Dance and Cultural Studies
at Pomona College and author or editor of several books, including
Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Ensembles, Representation,
and Power (2003).
"An intriguing, readable book about how, why, when, and where men
dance...Highly recommended." --Choice
"When Men Dance is an eclectic collection of essays and personal
narratives comparing the experiences of male dancers across a wide
array of historical and cultural contexts. While the volume
includes work by some leading scholars in the field, it also
reaches out to the non-specialist, asking in both complex and
heartfelt ways how masculinity is performed through
movement."-Barbara Browning, New York University and author,
Infectious Rhythm:
Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture (1998)
"Here at last is a richly diverse and compelling anthology that
challenges any previously homogeneous notions of men in dance.
Gathered in these pages are a range of perspectives that are at
once so informative and so personal that they will forever change
how you see male dancers and roles danced by men."-Naomi Jackson,
Arizona State University and author, Converging Movements: Modern
Dance and Jewish Culture at the 92nd Street Y (2000)
"This collection examines the experiences and stereotypes of men
who dance by interweaving new scholarly essays with a cross section
of related personal accounts. The result is a tapestry of diverse
thinking which will become a key resource for dance and gender
studies."--Selma Odom, Professor of Dance, York University
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