Reworking the Ballet: Counter Narratives and Alternative Bodies

Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1 : Approaching Reworkings of the Ballet in Theory and Practice
• 1. Reworking the Ballet: (En)countering the Canon
• 1. 1 Reworking the Ballet
• 1. 2 Defining the Terms of the Discourse
• 1. 3 Reviewing Five Giselles
• 1. 4 Counter Discourses and the Canon
• 1. 5 Reconsidering the Past: Reworkings as Postmodern Historiography
• 1. 6 Reworkings as Intertextual Practices
• 1. 7 Towards a Definition of Reworkings
• 2. Canonical Crossings: Narratives and Forms Revisioned
• 2. 1 Strategies of Dissonance: Moments of Sameness
• 2. 2 Inverting Bodies: Reformulating the Dance Vocabulary
• 2. 3 Re-Telling Tales: New Contexts, New Narratives
• 2. 4 Gender Bending: Cross-Casting and Cross-Dressing
• 2. 5 Feathered Pantaloons and Homoeroticism
• 2. 6 Hyperbole and Eccentricity
• 2. 7 The Heterosexual Matrix and Beyond
• 2. 8 Strategies of Dispersal: Intertextuality and the Carnivalesque
• Part 2 : Re-Figuring the Body and the Politics of Identity
• 3. Female Bodies and the Erotic: Performativity, Becoming and the Phallus
• 3. 1 Encounters Between Reworkings and Feminism
• 3. 2 Lac de Signes (1983) and The Ballerina's Phallic Pointe (1994) by Susan Leigh Foster
• 3. 3 Looking-at-to-be-Looked-at-Ness: Performance and Spectacle
• 3. 4 Trans-Contextualizing Bodies: Postmodern Parody and Hybridity
• 3. 5 Parodic Comedy and the Performativity of Gender
• 3. 6 The Phallus, the Penis, the Dildo and the Ballerina
• 3. 7 O (a Set of Footnotes to Swan Lake) (2002) by Vida L Midgelow
• 3. 8 Open Texts - Enacting Becomings
• 3. 9 Hybrid Body - Plural Bodies - My Body
• 3. 10 Breaking the Gaze - Inscribing a Haptic Presence
• 3. 11 Eroticism and the Politics of Touch
• 4. Princely Revisions: Stillness, Excess and Queerness
• 4. 1 Masculinities, the Male Dancer and Reworkings
• 4. 2 The Hypochondriac Bird (1998) by Javier de Frutos
• 4. 3 Swan Lake, 4 Acts (2005) by Raimund Hoghe
• 4. 4 In the Gaps and Absences
• 4. 5 Excess: De Frutos and Homoeroticism
• 4. 6 Stillness and (Dis)ability: Hoghe and the Ontology of Dance
• 4. 7 (Auto)corpography and (Beyond) Queer Theory
• 5. Intercultural Encounters: Flesh, Hybridity and the Exotic
• 5. 1 Reworkings as Intercultural Discourse
• 5. 2 Shakti and Swan Lake (1998)
• 5. 3 Masaki Iwana and The Legend of Giselle (Jizeru-den) (1994)
• 5. 4 Cultural (Ex)change and Hybridity
• 5. 5 Orientalism and the Exotic
• 5. 6 Enter the Silver Swan: Excess and the Erotic
• 5. 7 Fleshly Metamorphosis and Becomings in Butoh
• 5. 8 Commodification, Appropriation and the Global Market
• 6.
• Conclusion Transgressive Desires
• 6. 1 Reworkings as Canonical Counter-Discourse
• 6. 2 The Double Gesture: Beyond the Binary of Otherness
• 6. 3 Diversity and Difference: (Re)inscribing the Body
• 6. 4 Pleasure and Power: The (Re)eroticised Body