Dance With Me: Ballroom Dancing and the Promise of Instant Intimacy
Dance With Me: Ballroom Dancing and the Promise of Instant Intimacy
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Abstract
Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance, and the mood is hot and heavy; the women bend and hyperextend their legs as they twist and turn around their partners. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display of intimacy, romance and sexual passion. This book takes the reader onto the competition floor of ballroom dancing and into the lights and the glamour of a world of tanned bodies and glittering attire, exploring the allure of this hyper-competitive, difficult, and often expensive activity. In a vivid ethnography accompanied by beautiful photographs of all levels of dancers, from the world's top competitors to social dancers, the book examines the ways emotional labor is used to create intimacy between professional partners and between professionals and their students, illustrating how dancers purchase intimacy. It shows that, while at first glance, ballroom presents a highly gendered face with men leading and women following, dancing also transgresses gender.
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Photographing Emotion
Jonathan S. Marion
- Introduction: Entering the World of Ballroom
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The Purchase of Instant Intimacy
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The Thrill of Performance and the Agony of Competition
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The Economics of Ballroom
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Feeling the Dance, Showing the Magic
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The Tan, the Hair, the Makeup: Embracing the Look
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Taking the Lead: The Male Dancer
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Beyond the Glamour: The Female Dancer
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The Music Hasn’t Stopped: The Aging Dancer
- 9 Connection Is Key
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End Matter
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