Reworking The Ballet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415976039
Subjects: Ballet; Music; Music/Songbooks; Dance - Classical; Music / Ballet; Genres & Styles - Ballet; Genres & Styles - Dance
Description: "Challenging and unsettling their predecessors, modern choreographers such as Matthew Bourne, Mark Morris and Masaki Iwana have courted controversy and notoriety by reimagining the most canonical of Classical and Romantic ballets." "In this book, Dr. Vida Midgelow examines the ways in which these contemporary reworkings unveil and dismantle the basic assumptions of their texts, reconfiguring ballet to encompass changing attitudes towards gender, sexuality and cultural difference."--BOOK JACKET.