Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance

Printed on demand

Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

Other available formats

Introduction
Part 1 : Setting the Stage
Chapter 1 : What is Competitive Ballroom Dance?
Chapter 2 : A Brief History of Ballroom
Chapter 3 : Judging Ballroom Dance
Part 2 : Performing Dancesport
Chapter 4 : Ballroom as Spectacle
Chapter 5 : Ballroom as Art
Chapter 6 : Ballroom as Sport
Part 3 : Ballroom Competitions as Events
Chapter 7 : Competitions as Festival and Celebration
Chapter 8 : Competitions as Ritual
Part 4 : Costs, Consequences, and Outcomes
Chapter 9 : Costumes and Conduct
Chapter 10 : Performing Gender
Chapter 11 : Living the Dancesport Life
Conclusion

About
Explore

About

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender, and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress, and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events from Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the views of individual dancers, the book shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. For students of anthropology, dance, cultural, and performance studies, Ballroom provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.

Book

Other available formats

Contents

Download queue