Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Ivor Guest describes ‘ballet as a man’s art’. 7 Indeed, those lucky enough to be closest to the stage were often well-ranked moneyed men who greedily watched the dancers and fed their own desires to be seen by the audience. This group … 9 The stereotypical hierarchy of bodies as commodities was reflected within society and on stage in its conceptions and rankings of human beauty. 9 . Auguste Vestris was muscular and mid-size in stature. He was able to brilliantly perform … 2007) . Chazin-Bennehum, Judith, The Lure of Perfection: Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830 (London: Routledge, 2005). Franko, Mark, Dance as Text Ideologies of the Baroque Body (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). …
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