When Men Dance explores the intersection of dance and perceptions of male gender and sexuality across history and different cultural contexts. Chapters tackle the history and dilemmas that revolve around dance and notions of masculinity from a variety of dance studies perspectives, and are accompanied by fascinating personal histories that complement their themes.
Issues in the Pink and Blue West ; Maverick Men in Ballet: Rethinking the Making it Macho Strategy (Jennifer Fisher) ; Kristopher Wojtera, Aaron Cota ; What We Know About Boys Who Dance: The Limitations of Contemporary Masculinity and Dance Education (Doug Risner) David Allan, Michel Gervais ; Is Dance a Man's Sport Too? The Performance of Athletic-Coded Masculinity on the Concert Dance Stage (Maura Keefe) Fred Strickler Rennie Harris ; Transcending Gender in Ballet's LINES (Jill Nunes Jensen) Christian Burns ; The Performance of Unmarked Masculinity (Ramsay Burt) Donald McKayle, John Pennington ; Historical Perspectives ; Pricked Dances: The Spectator, Dance, and Masculinity in Early 18th Century England ; (John Bryce Jordan )Seth Williams ; Gender Trumps Race? Cross-dressing in Early Blackface Minstrelsy ; (Stephen Johnson) ; Paul Babiak: Diary of Channeling Juba Rehearsals ; Ausdruckstanz, Worker's Culture and Masculinity in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s ; Yvonne Hardt ; Hellmut Gottschild ; Legacies of Colonialism ; Invented Hypermasculinity: Colonial Influences on Dance Styles in Egypt, Iran, and Uzbekistan (Anthony Shay) Jamal ; Native Motion and Imperial Emotion: Male Performers of the 'Orient' and the Politics of the Imperial Gaze (Stavros Stavrou Karayanni) Namus Zokhrabov ; Ibrahim Farrah: Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Publisher (Barbara Sellers-Young) Saleem Azouka ; From Gynemimesis to Hyper-Masculinity: The Shifting Orientations of Male Performers of South Indian Court Dance (Hari Krishnan) Naatyaachaarya V.P. Dhananjayan Arun Mathai ; Appendix A: Notes on Personal History Interviews ; Appendix B: Questions for Personal History Interviews ; Notes on contributors
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