Sisters of Salome

Informationen zum Autor Toni Bentley danced with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet for ten years. Her books include Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal, Holding On to the Air, Costumes by Karinska, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir. Klappentext This book details for the first time the Salomania craze and four remarkable women who personified Salome and her seductive dance. Bentley shows how each embraced the persona of the femme fatale and transformed the misogynist idea of a dangerously sexual woman into a form of personal liberation. 22 illustrations. Zusammenfassung Explores how four influential dancers embraced the persona of the femme fatale and transformed the misogynist image of a dangerously sexual woman into a form of personal liberation.

Product details

• Authors: Toni Bentley
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.2005
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780803262416
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-6241-6
• Pages: 226
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.2 x 1.9 cm
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography / Autobiography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General