A queer history of the ballet
By: Peter Stoneley.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Ballet -- History; Homosexuality and dance; Homosexuality in dance; Sex in dance; Dance -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Components : spaces, bodies, movement; title: Nuns and fairies; title: Swans; title: Queer modernity; title: New York and the "closed shop"; title: The prima and her fans; title: Dance of the sailors; title: Conclusion: Traces.