1st Edition
Ballet across Borders Career and Culture in the World of Dancers
By Helena Wulff
Copyright 1998
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This absorbing book is ballet's 'biography' -- a revealing examination of a closed world, its competition and camaraderie, sexual politics, intimacies, pressures and, not least of all, its magic. Ballet companies have endeavoured to hide what is going on backstage lest the reality of highly strung nerves, constant fatigue and pain from injuries tarnish the illusion of ethereal figures and... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. Prologue: A Return to the Ballet World, 2. The Transnational Context, 3. Work as Vocation, 4. Classical Ballet Culture, 5. Producing Performance, 6. Moving and Mixing, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Helena Wulff Senior Lecturer,Stockholm University
"If one test of an ethnography is for participants to recognise themselves and their world, this ethnography of the Western classical ballet world succeeds amply ... This book is a rare attempt to raise the curtain on backstage activities, revealing tantalising glimpses of this 'closed' ballet world. - The Australian Journal of Anthropology A wealth of anecdotal information about backstage life. - Ethnos"
