Ballerina-pointe shoe becoming, fluid multiplicities, and The Red Shoes

While many published texts focus on pointe shoe history or pointe shoe fetishism, few assess the embodiment phenomenon at hand, or should I say at foot? With a posthuman perspective, I argue that the ballerina and pointe shoe function as a constant becoming. Through cultural, textual, and choreograp...

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Published in:Text and performance quarterly 2016-10, Vol.36 (4), p.265-278
Main Author: Mandradjieff, Mara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ballet
becoming
Erin Manning
Pointe shoes
posthumanism
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Summary:While many published texts focus on pointe shoe history or pointe shoe fetishism, few assess the embodiment phenomenon at hand, or should I say at foot? With a posthuman perspective, I argue that the ballerina and pointe shoe function as a constant becoming. Through cultural, textual, and choreographic analysis, I apply Erin Manning's theories based in Deleuzian philosophy to the ballet The Red Shoes. Revisiting this classic work, I parse out affective relations and budding multiplicities to suggest a new way of understanding the ballerina's body at large.
ISSN:1046-2937
1479-5760
DOI:10.1080/10462937.2016.1227873