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Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87569 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Armine Kotin Batson, Charles Richard 2015-09-28T15:02:37Z 2015-09-28T15:02:37Z 10000-01-01 1997 1997 "The fourth chapter, ""Men in Tights,"" focuses on the performances of choreographer-dancers Vaslav Nijinsky and Jean Borlin to examine the construction of notions of gender through performance. I argue that dance theater of the 1910s and 1920s sought to identify itself as masculine, thus echoing post-war France's search for a new national identity, vital and virile. This new-found masculinization, however, was an uneasy one: in its attempts to erase the centuries-old interpretation of dance and music as weak and feminine, this new theater engaged in a hypermasculinity which was undone by the public's reading of the various performing bodies as homosexual. A concluding chapter, ""Relache,"" which takes its title from a 1924 work by the Ballets Suedois, continues this dissertation's focus on the work of the Swedish troupe, the Russians' artistic rivals in the Parisian avant-garde. I close on analyses of Relache, the Swedes' final ballet, to suggest that the work of performance itself lies in a game of present absences and absent presences. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:02:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9812527.pdf: 15694267 bytes, checksum: 3af83ee169adc476fe31261bbed309d3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 256 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86288 (MiAaPQ)AAI9812527 eng Theater Words Into Flesh: Parisian Dance Theater, 1911--1924 text French French University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.