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Ballet body narratives

pain, pleasure and perfection in embodied identity
Author: Search for this author Pickard, Angela
Statement of Responsibility: Angela Pickard
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Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford [u.a.], Lang
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Author: Search for this author Pickard, Angela
Statement of Responsibility: Angela Pickard
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford [u.a.], Lang
Works included: Chapter 1: Ballet, bodies and becoming / Chapter 2: Ballet, Body and Bourdieu / Chapter 3: Thinking through the body, Chapter 4: Body, Capital and Habitus / Chapter 5: Ballet Bodies in pain / Chapter 6: Gendered experiences of pain , Chapter 7: Ballet bodily pleasures / Chapter 8: Pleasure, power and perfection
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ISBN: 978-3-0343-1786-3
ISBN (2nd): 3-0343-1786-7
Description: VI, 190 S.
Tags: Tänzer; Entwicklungssoziologie; Körper; Tänzerinnen; Sozialwissenschaft; Philosophie; Körpererfahrung; Identität; Anthropologie; Dance / Social aspects; Identity; Philosophy; Classical Ballet
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Language: Englisch
Footnote: Bibliographie S. 159 - 181 Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in becoming a dancer in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body, this book places the corporeal body as central to the examination and reveals significant relationships between body, society and identity. Drawing on academic scholarship as well as rich ballet body narratives from young dancers, this book investigates how young ballet dancers' bodies are lived, experienced and constructed through their desire to become performing ballet dancers as well as the seductive appeal of the ballet aesthetic. Pierre Bourdieu's critique of the perpetuating social order and his theoretical framework of field, habitus and capital are applied as a way of understanding the social world of ballet but also of relating the ballet habitus and belief in the body to broader social structures. This book examines the distinctiveness of ballet culture and aspects of young ballet dancers' embodied identity through a central focus on the ballet body.
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