Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself
ISBN: 9781645036715
Author | Angyal, Chloe |
Pub Date | 27/07/2023 |
Binding | Trade PB |
Pages | 320 |
Country | USA |
Dewey | 792.8 |
Quick overview A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities?and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance.