Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… on British affluent, well-heeled theatregoers to uncouth, standing-room only on-lookers, as a conduit for support and sociable endorsement without which the art form of ballet would not survive. The functionality and intersectionality of … was a key to respectable success in ballet and society. When thinking about the long eighteenth-century body and the spaces it inhabited, Hannah Arendt writes: ‘[…] the functionality and intersectionality of the body within these sociable ‘spaces of appearances’ of the theatre show the interconnectedness of the organizational strata, one level …
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