Dance With Me: Ballroom Dancing and the Promise of Instant Intimacy
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814722660 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a vivid ethnography accompanied by beautiful photographs of all levels of dancers, from the world’s top competitors to social dancers, Ericksen examines the ways emotional labor is used to create intimacy between professional partners and between professionals and their students, illustrating how dancers purchase intimacy. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display of intimacy, romance and sexual passion. In Dance With Me, Julia Ericksen, a competitive ballroom dancer herself, takes the reader onto the competition floor 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. She shows that, while at first glance, ballroom presents a highly gendered face with men leading and women following, dancing also transgresses gender. 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. . Click here to listen to Julia Ericksen's interview about Dance with Me on Philadelphia NPR's "Radio Times" Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate c
Julia A. Ericksen is Professor of Sociology at Temple University and author of Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century and Taking Charge of Breast Cancer.
Ferzacca,CHOICE. “There is much to like about this book. Erickson explores in great depth and richness this fascinating and complicated world that combines competition, artistry, and intimacy in a relationship that is often based on an economic exchange.”-Social Forces"Interviews with top competitors and social dancers reveal the power that intimacy between partners can bring."-Publishers Weekly"This wonderful combination of text and image results in a nuanced portrait of the performance of heterosexual intim
Well researched Julia Ericksen has done an impressive job interviewing dancers and dance teachers to explore some of the psychology of ballroom dancing.As a competitive dancer and ballroom dance teacher myself, I found the study interesting but curiously frustrating. Ericksen is so busy psychoanalyzing why people dance that in the process she misses the experience of dancing. I dance with ladies from all walks of life. They dance for many reasons, . "Analytical ballroom study which is still entertaining" according to Roseann S.. The author did not catalogue her own experiences as a dancer but rather studied ballroom dancing as a sociologist might, examining various facets of the sport from both the participant's viewpoint and the teacher's. It was sprinkled with enough anecdotal information that it did not become dry and boring and answered a lot of questions about the ballroom dancing life that I would not have even thought to ask.I feel like I learned a l. "harsh but true" according to Victoria Surdulescu. leave all hopes outside, you who are ready to read this book. Insightful, informative, filled with need-to-know info, yet managed to take a little of the glamour away and shine a steel mercatorial light on this whole slice of life, completely fairy tale like and isolated from the rest, that is ballroom dancing for the amateur. All in all, highly recommend. Could noto give it five stars just because I felt liek a little girl who just