DAN 245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Pas De Deux, Mento
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Dan 245 textbook notes: week 10 reading 4. Assignment: lynn garafola, the travesty dancer in nineteenth-century ballet (pp. 210-217) the 19th century belongs to the ballerina (from moving history) the feminine ideal of the female ballerina was defined overwhelmingly by men. Women dressed in travesty would play the roles previously played by men. Women dressing as men in the ballets reflected the shift of ballet from a courtly art to an entertainment marketplace geared towards the middle class bourgeois. Male dancers remained in some places, but failed in paris and london. Taglioni"s ethereal style in the 1830s even though females were exalted, there was a dual stigma of working class origins and sexual impropriety that branded the woman dancer. Women dressed as males in ballet symbolized the lust men felt for the ballerinas on stage the ballerina"s role was to charm her audiences as a woman.
