INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE. THE TROUBLE WITH THE MALE DANCER...; CHAPTER TWO. PERFORMING MASCULINITIES; CHAPTER THREE. NIJINSKY; CHAPTER FOUR. AMERICAN MEN; CHAPTER FIVE. DANCING IN THE CITY; CHAPTER SIX. MASCULINITY AND LIBERATION; CHAPTER SEVEN. IDENTITY POLITICS; CHAPTER EIGHT. DANCING NEW RELATIONS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Biography
Ramsay Burt is Professor Emeritus of Dance History at De Montfort University, Leicester. His publications include The Male Dancer (1995, revised 2007 and 2021), Alien Bodies (1997), Judson Dance Theater (2006), Writing Dancing Together (2009) with Valerie Briginshaw, Ungoverning Dance (2016), British dance: Black Routes (2016) with Christy Adair, and Dance, Modernism, and Modernity with Michael Huxley (2019).
Reviews of the first edition:
‘The fascination of this book lies in the way in which the author is able
to locate the male dancer in the broader socio-historic context of the
times . . . a vital contribution to the placing of dance and its literature
within contemporary cultural debate.’
Dr Alexander Carter, Middlesex University
‘A complex summary of the numerous biases and windows through
which we have viewed and continue to view male dancers . . . Burt’s
work argues persuasively that theatrical dance is a vital and threatening
site for defining masculinity in relation to the culture at large.’
David J. Popalisky, Dance Research Journal
