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This chapter explor the tensn at the tersectn of classil ballet and gay cultur. Central to the study is a crique of ballet’s exclnary heterocentrism—“the ballet closet”—exemplified by the image of the classil ballet...

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SWAN LAKE REVIEW – DADA MASILO FFL FEATHERS WH GAY REMAKE

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Siegied, however, is gay, and Masilo's homophobic South Ai unable to be wh Odile, the man he lov. Wh the terms of this society, neher "heroe" nor "villa" n have the man they gay readg of Swan Lake evably v parison wh Matthew Bourne's productn, yet Masilo's is like no other I've seen.

PK FEATHERS THE BALLET CLOSET: THREE GAY REMAK OF SWAN LAKE

At this time, I was also the procs of g out as gay. It was not an openly homophobic environment, but s nservatism and heterocentrism, rooted an orientatn to the past, prented extra plexi to navigate for a young gay man g to terms wh his sexualy. My experience wh this environment felt ntrast to the seismic soc-polil shifts I was wnsg through my engagement wh gay male subcultural art, polics and social spac.

Cght between the two ntexts, I felt at once stuck the past, while also propelled forward by a wave of progrsive chapter trac my journey through the tensns, navigatg a relatnship to masculi and sir through a queer readg of ballet culture proposed by three key choreographic works that rpond to the polemics of gay sire ballet. I argue that the works were created rponse to ballet’s excln of gay men; the way each work addrs gayns, masculy, and shame reflect some of the soc-polil and cultural tensns of this particular moment Gay Swan LakThe aforementned works are three “gay remak” of the classil ballet Swan Lake.

DANCE; 'SWAN LAKE': IS IT THEATER OR DANCE, GAY OR STRAIGHT?

I have labelled them lightly as “gay remak” based on two creria: one, bee the choreographer of each of the works intifi himself as gay; and two, the central romantic uple—the Prce and the Swan—is performed by two men.

I argue the versns of the classil ballet were created at a time of shiftg gay polics, both wh and outsi the world of ballet, and they perform the polemics of this moment, each different ways.

NOT THE GAY SWAN LAKE

I have stctured my analysis of the works, not only the orr I enuntered them, but also the way they reflect my own journey of navigatg the plexi of the gay male body ballet. (1995) was the first ballet I had seen which gay sire was central to the work. While this remake proposed a way to challenge the visibily of gay men the ballet non, worked wh and perpetuated the systemic procs that produce ballet’s homophobias.

ed “the universal” to disguise s gay shame, rooted the panic of the threat of the feme to the gay male inty that rerced many of the tensns I was navigatg between masculy and ntrast, I enuntered Javier Ftos’s Hypochondriac. The works offered rehg exploratns of gay sire and timacy that did not rely on hostily to otherns and difference.

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