When Men Dance Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders [Hardcover]

While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two forms of performance for men. Dance is often regarded as a feminine activity, and men who dance are frequently stereotyped as suspect, gay, or somehow unnatural. But what really happens when men dance?

When Men Danceoffers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. A first of its kind, this trenchant look at the stereotypes and realities of male dancing brings together contributions from leading and rising scholars of dance from around the world to explore what happens when men dance. The dancing male body emerges in its many contexts, from the ballet, modern, and popular dance worlds to stages in Georgian and Victorian England, Weimar Germany, India and the Middle East. The men who dance and those who analyze them tell stories that will be both familiar and surprising for insiders and outsiders alike.

Introduction

PART I ISSUES IN THE PINK AND BLUE WEST
1. Maverick Men in Ballet: Rethinking the Making it Macho Strategy
Jennifer Fisher

Kristopher Wojtera
Aaron Cota

2. What We Know About Boys Who Dance: The Limitations of Contemporary Masculinity and Dance Education
Doug Risner

David Allan and Michel Gervais

3. Is Dance a Man's Sport Too? The Performance of Athletic-Coded Masculinity on the Concert Dance Stage
Maura Keefe

Fred Strickler
Rennie Harris

4. Transcending Gender in Ballet's LINES
Jill Nunes Jensen

Christian Burns

5. The Performance of Unmarked Masculinity
Ramsay Burt

Donald McKayle
John Pennington

PART II HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
6. Pricked Dances: The Spectator, Dance, and Mascl3;