The ambivalent, knowing male body in the Pasadena dance theatre
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly
- Vol. 14 (3) , 197-209
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10462939409366083
Abstract
Classical ballet training, in the context of a semi‐professional company, serves as an initiatory vehicle for its male participants. This study examines the negotiation of this initiatory vehicle by men in the Pasadena Dance Theatre (PDT), a highly acclaimed company in Pasadena, California. Examined are the ways in which the PDT men consolidate cohesive group subject positions; how difference is framed and policed; how masculine agency is bracketed and qualified; and how the masculine ballet dancer as subject position is mediated through/by the women's bodies which set masculinity in motion.Keywords
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