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Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Katzke, Cecilia Johanna |
| author2 | Pather, Jay |
| author_browse | Katzke, Cecilia Johanna Pather, Jay |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12878 Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon Katzke, Cecilia Johanna Pather, Jay Samuel, Gerard Music Includes bibliographical references. This qualititative, interdisciplinary study predominantly focuses on the South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and her deconstructions of classical ballet. To inform a gender-centred investigation of Orlin’s work, attention is given to the origins of patriarchal dualisms and the way in which these manifest in contemporary Western culture. Emphasis is placed on the institutional repression of the body as a way to preserve particular power structures. In this instance the theories of Michel Foucault, in particular, are referenced. His concepts serve to illuminate a consideration of Western concert dance, with a particular focus on classical ballet, as an institution that sustains gender as a system of power. The origins of the aesthetic of the ballerina as an icon of femininity, and the way in which certain values and expectations impact on the bodies of female ballet dancers, particularly but not exclusively, provides a context for the discussion of Orlin’s work – how and why her form and content questions and undermines the perpetuation of traditional gender stereotypes in classical ballet. This dissertation examines Orlin’s work in order to expand discourse around the subversive potential of the female body, informed by an understanding of the body as an ever-changing entity that resists definition by way of essentialist meanings. 2015-05-26T14:18:28Z 2015-05-26T14:18:28Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12878 eng application/pdf College of Music Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Music Katzke, Cecilia Johanna Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
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| title | Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
| title_full | Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
| title_fullStr | Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
| title_short | Probing the politics of the female body: Robyn Orlin's deconstruction of the Classical Ballet canon |
| title_sort | probing the politics of the female body robyn orlin s deconstruction of the classical ballet canon |
| topic | Music |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12878 |
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