Add to ORKGWhy do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? In this highly original piece of research, Michael Gard shows how the worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle and, over time, produce different answers to these questions. Surveying both academic and popular writers, as well as drawing on life history interviews with twenty male dancers, Gard argues that the answers to these questions are inextricably linked to another question whose answer is never the same at any moment in history or any place in culture: What is a man
This diploma thesis examines current phenomenon of pole dance/sport. This activity which was origina...
Anglo-American cultures traditionally constructed dance as a feminine activity, thus devaluing it, a...
The Arts: 2nd Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)Classical bal...
While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two...
This is a sociological study of gender and sexualities in the context of professional dance in Scot...
The central premise of this dissertation project is that, contrary to conventional wisdom gay men an...
Based on a multi-sited ethnography on Western theatrical dance, the article focuses on the “problem ...
The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed an important development in contemporary theatre...
Historically, dance has been considered an activity less desirable for boys. Social constructs have ...
Although previous research has investigated men in feminized sports, we took a different approach in...
Through the research for this paper I found that men have a very strong presence in the world of mod...
To say that the masculinities are woven into the fabric of a pre-existing culture is not enough. One...
For today’s presentation I will summarize and extend the chapter I contributed to Sherry Shapiro’s b...
Within the dance world, gender (as a binary concept) appears to be central to lived experience. Whil...
The popularity of ballroom dance has ebbed and flowed over the years. In this article we argue that ...
This diploma thesis examines current phenomenon of pole dance/sport. This activity which was origina...
Anglo-American cultures traditionally constructed dance as a feminine activity, thus devaluing it, a...
The Arts: 2nd Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)Classical bal...
While dance has always been as demanding as contact sports, intuitive boundaries distinguish the two...
This is a sociological study of gender and sexualities in the context of professional dance in Scot...
The central premise of this dissertation project is that, contrary to conventional wisdom gay men an...
Based on a multi-sited ethnography on Western theatrical dance, the article focuses on the “problem ...
The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed an important development in contemporary theatre...
Historically, dance has been considered an activity less desirable for boys. Social constructs have ...
Although previous research has investigated men in feminized sports, we took a different approach in...
Through the research for this paper I found that men have a very strong presence in the world of mod...
To say that the masculinities are woven into the fabric of a pre-existing culture is not enough. One...
For today’s presentation I will summarize and extend the chapter I contributed to Sherry Shapiro’s b...
Within the dance world, gender (as a binary concept) appears to be central to lived experience. Whil...
The popularity of ballroom dance has ebbed and flowed over the years. In this article we argue that ...
This diploma thesis examines current phenomenon of pole dance/sport. This activity which was origina...
Anglo-American cultures traditionally constructed dance as a feminine activity, thus devaluing it, a...
The Arts: 2nd Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)Classical bal...