Body Impossible: Desmond Richardson and the Politics of Virtuosity
Osterweis, Ariel
ISBN 13: 
9780190645823
ISBN 10: 
0190645822
Category: 
Social Science: Homosexuality Gay Studies
Edition: 
1
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 
05/2024
Format: 
Paperback
Status: 
Not Yet Published
Imprint: 
Oxford University Press
Affiliation: 
California Institute of the Arts
Audience: 
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions: 
5.9 x 0.6 x 8.9 in
Pages: 
248
Weight: 
2
Retail Price: 
39.95 (Tentative Price May Change)
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Synopsis:
Body Impossible theorizes the concept of virtuosity in contemporary dance and performance through a study of the career of dancer Desmond Richardson. Focusing on Richardson's creative insistence on improvisatory fun and excellence throughout the decades approaching the millennium (shaped by Reaganism, the Culture Wars, the AIDS epidemic, the New Jim Crow, and MTV), this book brings dance into conversation with paradigms of blackness, queerness, masculinity, and class in order to generate a socio-culturally attentive understanding of virtuosity.
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