The League of Exotic Dancers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The League of Exotic Dancers write by Kaitlyn Regehr. This book was released on 2017. The League of Exotic Dancers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion has been an annual tradition since 1955, when the League of Exotic Dancers (LED), one of America's earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, held its first meeting. Today, situated in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas" or "50s Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion now takes the form of a social club and support group, where these late life dancers perform their half-century-year-old routines from the golden age of burlesque to a rally of counter culture neo-burlesque fans"--
Ivy League Stripper
Ivy League Stripper - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ivy League Stripper write by Heidi Mattson. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Ivy League Stripper available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heidi Mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a '90s version of the American Dream by becoming a smart, sassy, self-confident stripper while attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Intelligent and ambitious, she grew up
The League of Exotic Dancers
The League of Exotic Dancers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The League of Exotic Dancers write by Kaitlyn Regehr. This book was released on 2017-04-04. The League of Exotic Dancers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every year in downtown Las Vegas, often called "Old Vegas," The Burlesque Hall of Fame reunion brings together members of the League of Exotic Dancers, one of the earliest unions for women in exotic entertainment, to perform their half-century-old routines. In this annual tradition, performers from the golden age of Vegas burlesque rally counter-culture neo-burlesque fans who both keep the tradition alive and add new meaning to it. Over the past four years, documentarian Kaitlyn Regehr and photographer Matilda Temperley have embedded themselves within this community-a group, which like Old Vegas itself, continues to survive and thrive sixty years past its supposed prime. Here, in a smoky, off-strip casino, they found women, at times well into their 80s, subversively bumping and grinding away preconceptions about appropriate behavior for a pensioner. This collection of interviews and photographs is drawn from the backstage dressing rooms, homes, and lives of this aging burlesque community, as well as the young neo-burlesque community who adore them. The authors present an inter-generational sisterhood that is both unique and socially significant. Through a range of experiences-from discussing struggles for wage equality, to helping stabilize an 85 year old as she steps into a sequined g-string-the authors describe the complexity of the lives of these performers and the burlesque history from which they come. Regehr and Temperley present multidimensional portraits of this community and conclude that they are at their most vital when read with all the nuances, troubles, trials, and triumphs that they formerly and currently experience.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition write by Sherril Dodds. This book was released on 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition write by Dr. Sherril Dodds. This book was released on 2018-11-01. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the twenty-first century, values of competition underpin the free-market economy and aspirations of individual achievement shape the broader social world. Consequently, ideas of winning and losing, success and failure, judgment and worth, influence the dance that we see and do. Across stage, studio, street, and screen, economies of competition impact bodily aesthetics, choreographic strategies, and danced meanings. In formalized competitions, dancers are judged according to industry standards to accumulate social capital and financial gain. Within the capitalist economy, dancing bodies compete to win positions in prestigious companies, while choreographers hustle to secure funding and attract audiences. On the social dance floor, dancers participate in dance-offs that often include unspoken, but nevertheless complex, rules of bodily engagement. And the media attraction to the drama and spectacle of competition regularly plays out in reality television shows, film documentaries, and Hollywood cinema. Drawing upon a diverse collection of dances across history and geography, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance and, in response, how dancing bodies negotiate, critique, and resist the aesthetic and social structures of the competition paradigm.
