Description
When realness becomes a practice, dancing can become a way of restaging the histories of bodies. The book maps out a drag politics of embodiment, connecting drag dances to queer hope, memory, and mourning. There are aging etoiles, midnight shows, mystical seances, and all of the dust and velvet of divas in their dressing-rooms. But these forty years of drag dances are also a cultural history, including Mark Morris dancing the death of Dido in the shadow of AIDS, and the swans of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo sketching an antiracist vision for ballet. Drawing on queer theory, dance history, and the embodied practices of dancers themselves, The Bodies of Others examines the ways in which drag dances undertake the work of a shared queer and trans politics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on performance, gender and sexuality, and embodiment.
About the Author
Selby Wynn Schwartz is Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472054091
Author Selby Wynn Schwartz
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 477g