Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative individual expression. THERESA BUCKLAND Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, UK. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Preface - List of Illustrations - Contents - PART I: SOCIETY DANCES - Fashionable Bodies and Society Dancing - Fashioning Dance Histories - The Seasonal Round - Public Spaces - Late Victorian Repertoire - Anarchy in the Ball Room - PART II: FASHIONING GENTILITY - A Noble Profession - Temples of Terpsichore - The Fashioning of Ladies - Modelling the Lady - Where are our Men? - Dancing Dogs and Manly Men - PART III: MODERN MOVES - Moving into the Twentieth Century - Modernizing Terpsichore - Civilization Under Threat - Knuts and Aliens - Civilizing from the Centre - Looking Back, Moving On - Notes - Bibliography - Index -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-27714-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha Publicación: 17/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés