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Author: Clare Croft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0199377332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Queer Dance' challenges social norms and enacts queer coalition across the LGBTQ community. The text joins forces with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial work to consider how bodies are forces of social change.
Author: Andrew Holleran
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0063299496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“An astonishingly beautiful book. The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation.”—Harper’s “Through the sweat and haze of longing come piercing insights – about the closeness of gay male friendship, about the vanity and imperfections of men. The more one reads the novel, we realise that what Holleran has given us is our very own queer (queerer?) Great Gatsby: its decadence, its fear, its violence, its ecstasy, its transience.”—The Guardian Andrew Holleran’s landmark novel of a young man's search for love and companionship in New York’s emerging gay world in the 1970s, with a new introduction by Garth Greenwell. Young, astonishingly beautiful, and tired of living a lie, Anthony Malone trades life as a seemingly straight small-town lawyer for the decadence of New York’s emerging gay scene—an odyssey that takes him from Manhattan’s Everard baths and after hour discos, to lavish orgies on Fire Island and parks after dark. Rescuing Malone from a possessive lover and shepherding him through his immersion in this life of fierce joys and cheap truths is the flamboyant Sutherland, a high-camp quintessential queen. But for Malone, the endless city nights and Fire Island days are close to burning out, and despite Sutherland’s abundant attentiveness and glittering world-weary wisdom, Malone soon realizes what he is truly looking for may not be found in these beautiful places, where life is crowded, and people are forever outrunning their own desires and death.
Author: Fiona Buckland
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0819570540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. Focusing on gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City, this is the first book to bring together vital issues such as dance culture, queer community, sex culture, HIV identity and politics. Based on four years of field work, the book takes readers on a journey from the streets of New York City into the dance clubs and onto the dance floor. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing. Fiona Buckland argues that such dancing embodies and rehearses a powerful political imagination, laying claim to the space and to one's body as queer."--Publishers Weekly
Author: Claude J. Summers
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1573441988
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique encyclopedia showcases the contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people to music, dance, and musical theater.
Author: Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012-10-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0472051393
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent
Author: Kemi Adeyemi
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2021-05-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0472054783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark
Author: Clare Croft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-03-31
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0199377340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If we imagine multiple ways of being together, how might that shift choreographic practices and help us imagine ways groups assemble in more varied ways than just pairing another man with another woman? How might dancing queerly ask us to imagine futures through something other than heterosexuality and reproduction? How does challenging gender binaries always mean thinking about race, thinking about the postcolonial, about ableism? What are the arbitrary rules structuring dance in all its arenas, whether concert and social or commercial and competition, and how do we see those invisible structures and work to disrupt them? Queer Dance brings together artists and scholars in a multi-platformed project-book, accompanying website, and live performance series to ask, "How does dancing queerly progressively challenge us?" The artists and scholars whose writing appears in the book and whose performances and filmed interviews appear online stage a range of genders and sexualities that challenge and destabilize social norms. Engaging with dance making, dance scholarship, queer studies, and other fields, Queer Dance asks how identities, communities, and artmaking and scholarly practices might consider what queer work the body does and can do. There is great power in claiming queerness in the press of bodies touching or in the exceeding of the body best measured in sweat and exhaustion. How does queerness exist in the realm of affect and touch, and what then might we explore about queerness through these pleasurable and complex bodily ways of knowing?
Author: Selby Wynn Schwartz
Publisher: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Qu
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0472054090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.
Author: Kemi Adeyemi
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781478018698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Kemi Adeyemi examines how Black queer women use the queer dance floor to articulate relationships to themselves, the Black queer community, and gentrifying neighborhoods in Chicago.
Author: Jane Desmond
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions, exploring the relationship between dancing bodies and sexual identity on the concert stage, in nightclubs, in film, in the courts, and on the streets. From Nijinsky's balletic prowess to Charlie Chaplin's lightfooted "Little Tramp," from lesbian go-go dancers to the swans of Swan Lake, from the postmodern works of Bill T. Jones to the dangers of same-sex social dancing at Disneyland and the ecstatic Mardi Gras dance parties of Sydney, Australia, this book tracks the intersections of dance and human sexuality in the twentieth century as the definition of each has shifted and expanded. The contributors come from a number of fields (literature, history, theater, dance, film studies, legal studies, critical race studies) and employ methodologies ranging from textual analysis and film theory to ethnography. By embracing dance, and bodily movement more generally, as a crucial focus for investigation, together they initiate a new agenda for tracking the historical kinesthetics of sexuality.
