‘Anything But Ballet’: Individuality, Genre-Bending, and Sexual Expression in Center Stage
| Dublin Core | PKP Metadata Items | Metadata for this Document | |
| 1. | Title | Title of document | ‘Anything But Ballet’: Individuality, Genre-Bending, and Sexual Expression in Center Stage - Movies, Moves and Music |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Gillian Turnbull; Ryerson University; |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | popular music; film music |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | ballet; popular music; Center Stage; gender; dance performance |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Dance |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter argues that the employment of popular music throughout Center Stage functions to break the impenetrability of ballet, securing its place within a more commercial (or lowbrow) mainstream, while elevating popular music to the role of reconstructing ideas about classical dance. It also explores how genre determines individual and sexual expression, manifested in the overt declaration of masculine and feminine identities in movement and in the use of alternative gestures in classical ballet, which similarly disrupt conventional notions about ballet traditions. Rock and pop music further enable the characters in Center Stage to use alternative gestures in order to disentangle the standard gender roles that still dominate ballet. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| 8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 15-Jan-2016 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
| 11. | Type | Type | |
| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/27434 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.27434 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Movies, Moves and Music |
| 16. | Language | English=en | en |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
international, twentieth century to contemporary |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |