Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… dancers on and off stage and patrons of female dancers. Ballet Character Roles The performers themselves portrayed a hierarchy on stage as ballet characters that John Weaver introduced to English audiences. By the early 1800s performers … such as villains, old men and women, clowns, or monsters. This caste system was rarely altered. 9 The stereotypical hierarchy of bodies as commodities was reflected within society and on stage in its conceptions and rankings of human …
Audience | Commodities | Dance | Theatre
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