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(Re:) Claiming Ballet
With contributions from professional ballet dancers and teachers, choreographers, and dance scholars in Europe and the United States, the volume introduces important new thinkers and perspectives. An essential resource for the field of ballet studies and a major contribution to dance scholarship more broadly, (Re:) Claiming Ballet will appeal to academics, researchers, and scholars; dance professionals and practitioners; and anyone interested in the intersection of race, class, gender, and dance.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Regarding claiming ballet / reclaiming ballet
Chapter 1: Ballet, from property to Art – Adesola Akinleye
Chapter 5: The traces of my ballet body - Mary Savva
Chapter 6: Ballet Beyond Boundaries – Personal History. Brenda Dixson Gottschild
Chapter 7:“Auftanzen statt Aufgeben” and The Anti Fascist Ballet School -Elizabeth Ward
Chapter 8: Dancing Across Historically Racist Borders – Kehinde Ishangi
Chapter 9: Dance Theatre of Harlem’s radicalization of ballet in 1970s & 1980s – Theresa Ruth Howard
Chapter 10: Personal testimony as social resilience - Theara J. Ward
Chapter 12: The Ever After of Ballet – Selby Wynn Schwartz
Chapter 14: The Counterpoint Project – When Life Doesn’t Imitate Art - Endalyn Taylor
Chapter 15: Ballet’s Binary Genders in a Rainbow-Spectrum World:
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