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

Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The Contested Landscape of Ballroom Dance: Culture, Gender, Race, Class, and Nationality in Performance
• 2. Dancing through Different Worlds: An Autoethnography of the Interactive Body and Virtual Emotions in Ballroom Dance
• 3. Ballroom and the Movies
• 4. Paving the Road to the Olympics: Staging and Financing the Olympic Dream
• 5. Packaging Fantasy and Morality
• 6. Quo Vadis?
• Ballroom-Dance-Related Organizations
• Appendix: Filmography of Selected DanceSport and Ballroom Films
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index