Unit
Overview
Oral Presentations Begin April 24 – Curate a Balanchine Ballet for the Class. Complete Assignment Here
Dance
as a classical art - 5 sessions
How does concert dance function as a classical art? What is classicism? Is ballet inherently misogynistic? A focus on kabuki in Japan and ballet in America, with a consideration of the choreography of George Balanchine.
How does concert dance function as a classical art? What is classicism? Is ballet inherently misogynistic? A focus on kabuki in Japan and ballet in America, with a consideration of the choreography of George Balanchine.
Unit
Assignments
read:
"Classical Dance Theater" in Dancing pp
128-163
read:
Kealiinohomoku, Joann "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form
of Ethnic Dance" in Choen and Copeland What is Dance? Oxford:
Oxford University Press 1983: pp 533-549.
read:
Daly, Ann "The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers"
in TDR Vol 31 NO. 1, 198
read:
Novak, Cynthia "Ballet, Gender and Cultural Politics" in Dance,
Gender and Culture, Helen Thomas, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press,
199
