From Ballroom to Dancesport

From Ballroom to Dancesport Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture - SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

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Publisher's Synopsis

Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasing international anxiety over how and whether to transform ballroom into an Olympic sport. Writing as a participant-critic, Picart suggests that both are crucial sites where bodies are packaged as racialized, sexualized, nationalized, and classed objects. In addition, Picart argues, as the choreography, costuming, and genre of ballroom and DanceSport continue to evolve, these theatrical productions are aestheticized and constructed to encourage commercial appeal, using the narrative frame of the competitive melodrama to heighten audience interest.

Book information

ISBN: 9780791466292
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 793.38
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 167
Weight: 367g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 16mm