Full Description
Queering Partner Dance brings work by established and emerging researchers together in one volume, exposing readers for the first time to this burgeoning field and allowing for comparison across genres and geographic areas. The contributors to Queering Partner Dance, who are dancer-scholars themselves, highlight the broad transformative potential of queer dance practices and theorize how those practices are relevant to multiple disciplines.
Since the emergence and expansion of the scholarly fields of gender studies and queer studies, which transformed music and dance studies along the way, social dancers of all genders began to openly question the gendered dynamics of their art and to experiment with how they might be changed. Exploring dances like tango, ballroom, Latin hustle, and salsa, with chapters on teaching dance and queer dance spaces, the contributors show how efforts to queer dance came to mean not only different gender constellations or role distributions, but also the modification of movements and expectations, steps and techniques, and a reorientation of a dance to acknowledge those who are usually excluded.
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1. Queering Partner Dance - An Introduction, Val Meneau (University of Vienna, Austria) and Sydney Hutchinson (State Institute for Music Research, Berlin, Germany)
Part I: Challenging Normativities
2. Breaking the Cisheteronormative Visual Imagery: Queer Utopian Imaginings for a More Inclusive Future in Ballroom Dance, Val Meneau and Giulia Settomini (Independent Researcher)
3. Femme-bodiment as Praxis: Equality Dancing and the Reclamation of Femme Identity, Yen Nee Wong (University of Leeds, UK)
4. 'Are you...following?' Phenomenal Failures in Queer Country Western Dancing, Kathryn Alexander (University of Arizona, US)
Part II: Navigating Desire
5. Negotiating Heteromasculinity: Towards an Understanding of Straight Men Who Dance with Men (MDM) in UK Swing, Matthew Hall (Bath Spa University, UK)
6. Queering Form - Queering Representation: Questions on the Queer Aspect in Queer Tango Performances, Arno Plass (Independent Researcher)
7. Desmadrosas/es/xs: Queer Quebradita Deviations in Public and Private Spaces, Irvin Gonzalez (Ohio State University, US)
Part III: Designing Inclusive (Teaching) Spaces
8. Queering the Classroom: Dual-Role Pedagogy in University Salsa and Tango Courses, Juliet McMains (University of Washington, US), Julia Collier (Independent Researcher), Iván Fernández Victoria (Independent Researcher), Katherine Leavitt (Independent Researcher), and Kefan Yi (Independent Researcher)
9. The Queering of Lindy hop, Linnea Helmersson (Independent Researcher)
10. Teaching and Practicing Care through Somatic Partnering, Ilya Vidrin (Northeastern University, US)
Part IV: Shifting Scenes and Communities
11. Do the Latin Hustle: The Queer Rites of Saturday Night, Abdiel Jacobsen (Scripps College, US), Ahtoy Juliana WonPat-Borja (Scripps College, US) and Sarah Nguy?n (Jacob's Pillow, US)
12. Salsa in India - A Queer Partner Dance by Chance, Sydney Hutchinson (Humboldt University, Germany) and Subhashish Mandal (Independent Researcher)
13. Queering Traditional Dance? Reflections on Gender Negotiations Within a Set of Scenes in Sweden and Norway, Karin Eriksson (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway)
14. Toolbox for Queering Partner Dance, Val Meneau (University of Vienna, Austria) and Sydney Hutchinson (Humboldt University, Germany)
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