Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself - Couverture souple

Angyal, Chloe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1645036715 ISBN 13 : 9781645036715

Editeur : Bold Type Books, 2023

Synopsis

A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities―and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

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À propos de l?auteur

Chloe Angyal is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior editor at VICE News and her writing about politics and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in the Iowa City area.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bold Type Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1645036715
• ISBN 13: 9781645036715
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible