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Introduction | |
Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice | |
Reworking the ballet: (en)countering the canon | |
Reworking the ballet | |
Defining the terms of the discourse | |
Reviewing five | |
Giselles | |
Counter discourses and the canon | |
Reconsidering the past: reworkings as postmodern historiography | |
Reworkings as Intertextual Practices | |
Towards a definition of reworkings | |
Canonical crossings: narratives and forms revisioned | |
Strategies of dissonance - moments of sameness | |
Inverting bodies: reformulating the dance vocabulary | |
Re-telling tales: new contexts, new narratives | |
Gender bending: Cross-casting and Cross-dressing | |
Feathered pantaloons and homoeroticism | |
Hyperbole and eccentricity | |
The heterosexual matrix and beyond | |
Strategies of dispersal: Intertextuality and the carnivalesque | |
Re-figuring the body and the politics of identity | |
Female bodies and the erotic: Performativity, becoming and the phallus | |
Encounters between reworkings and feminism | |
Lac de Signes (1983) and The Ballerina's Phallic Pointe (1994) | |
Looking-at-to-be-looked-at-ness: performance and spectacle | |
Trans-contextualizing bodies: postmodern parody and hybridity | |
Parodic comedy and the performativity of gender | |
The phallus, the penis, the dildo and the ballerina | |
O (a set of footnotes to Swan Lake) (2002) | |
Open texts - enacting becomings | |
Hybrid body - plural bodies - my body | |
Breaking the gaze - inscribing a haptic presence | |
Eroticism and the politics of touch | |
Princely revisions: Stillness, excess and queerness | |
Masculinities, the male dancer and reworkings | |
The Hypochondriac Bird (1998) | |
Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005) | |
In the gaps and absences | |
Excess: De Frutos and homoeroticism | |
Stillness and (dis)ability: Hoghe and the ontology of dance | |
(Auto)corpography and (beyond) queer theory | |
Intercultural encounters: Flesh, hybridity and the exotic | |
Reworkings as intercultural discourse | |
Shakti and Swan Lake (1998) | |
Masaki Iwana and The Legend of Giselle (Jizeru-den) (1994) | |
Cultural (ex)change and hybridity | |
Orientalism and the exotic | |
Enter the Silver Swan: excess and the erotic | |
Fleshly metamorphosis and becomings in butoh | |
Commodification, appropriation and the global market | |
Conclusion: Transgressive Desires | |
Reworkings as canonical counter-discourse | |
The double gesture: beyond the binary of otherness | |
Diversity and difference: (re)inscribing the body | |
Pleasure and power: the (re)eroticised body | |
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