From Ballroom to Dancesport: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture

by Caroline Picart, Michael Messner (Editor), Dudley Cahn (Editor)

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Drawing on recent media portrayals and her own experience, author and dancer Caroline Joan S. Picart explores ballroom dancing and its more "sporty" equivalent, DanceSport, suggesting that they are reflective of larger social, political, and cultural tensions. The past several years have seen a resurgence in the popularity of ballroom dance as well as an increasi...more

Hardcover, 167 pages

Published December 1st 2005 by State University of New York Press (first published 2005)

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