| #1079715 in eBooks | 2013-11-05 | 2013-11-05 | File type: PDF||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Women Breaking Barriers|By Lynda Ruffner|Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage is an exceptional creation that explores women in dance. Banes gives in-depth historical and social reference for the dances in this book. This context allows the reader to more fully understand the characters on stage and the women off stage. She shows us the significance of the ever-changing "ma|From Library Journal|In this thoughtful and thought-provoking work, dance critic and historian Banes (Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance, LJ 12/1/79) surveys the canon of Western dance through a feminist lens, arguing that "choreographers have created im
Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage is a spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective. Setting the creation of specific dances in socio-political and cultural contexts, Sally Banes shows that choreographers have created representations of women that are shaped by - and that in part shape - society's continuing debates about sexuality and female identity. ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Dancing Women: Female Bodies Onstage | Sally Banes. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
