Male Dancing Body, Stigma and Normalising Processes. Playing with (Bodily) Signifieds/ers of Masculinity

Based on a multi-sited ethnography on Western theatrical dance, the article focuses on the “problem of the male dancer”. Once discussed the historical genealogy of the stigma and its effect on men’s participation in dance, I consider three stigma “antidotes”. Two of them – artistic-professional exce...

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Main Author: Chiara Bassetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2013-12-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rsa/1048