Turning Pointe

Name: Turning Pointe
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How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself

By Chloe Angyal

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Turning Pointe by Chloe Angyal delves into the complex world of ballet, exploring how this cherished art form is deeply entwined with issues of gender, race, and class. The book reveals the demanding and often exclusive culture of ballet that shapes young dancers' lives while confronting the power imbalances, unrealistic beauty standards, and racial barriers that persist in the field. Angyal highlights the efforts of a new generation of dancers determined to challenge and transform ballet to ensure its relevance and equity in the twenty-first century.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those passionate about dance, social justice, and the transformation of traditional art forms. It will appeal to ballet enthusiasts, performing arts students, and anyone curious about the intersection of art and social issues.

A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities-and a look inside the fight for its future

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A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities and a look inside the fight for its future.

Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance.

In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of colour out of ballet.

As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

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"Turning Pointe isn't always an easy read, but it's an important one. And it's one whose message is, ultimately, of hope." -- Seattle Times

"A painstaking, and often painful, assessment of the troubling racialized, gendered, and classed lessons of classical ballet. Angyal's sharp analysis invites us to wonder how ballet might expand if it did not require broken toes, torn ligaments, starving dancers, or pink tights." -- Melissa Harris-Perry, Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University

"A vigorously reported critique of common policies and practices in the ballet world." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Angyal, a journalist and former dancer, raises the curtain and goes backstage to reveal why this beloved cultural tradition is imperilled." -- Booklist

"Angyal's Turning Pointe is a vital industry manifesto for a new era in ballet." -- New York Journal of Books

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781645036715

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bold Type Books

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Chloe Angyal is a journalist from Sydney, Australia. She is a senior editor at VICE News and her writing about politics and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in the Iowa City area.

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