1st Edition
The Routledge Introduction to Ballet, its Culture and Issues
Chapter 1 The ballet landscape
Chapter 2 Ballet is actually a form of ethnic dance
Chapter 3 The culture of ballet practice
Chapter 4 Gender, love, and ballet duets
Chapter 5 Ballet and exclusion
Chapter 6 Ballet and revolution
Chapter 7 Unpacking The Nutcracker
Chapter 8 Audiences and the dance of the spectator
Biography
Jennifer Fisher is the author of Nutcracker Nation (2003), Ballet Matters (2019), and co-editor of When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities across Borders (2009). A professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA, she is the founding editor of Dance Major Journal, https://escholarship.org/uc/dmj. Formerly a performer and journalist, Fisher wrote about dance for the Los Angeles Times for many years and has published scholarly articles on topics that include ballet and whiteness, interviewing skills, ballet and gender, the dangers of “so-called” lyrical dance, and Anna Pavlova and the Swan Brand. She is also a ballet coroner whose most recent inquests into the death of Giselle were held at the San Francisco Ballet.
