Queer Swans

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments Special thanks to Professor Bud Coleman, former Trock and present Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His dissertation, “Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: A History of the Company, 1974–1990,” and his personal comments have been of invaluable help. Also, much thanks and gratitude to Professor Emeritus Mark Dubin of the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose expertise in computer graphics and assistance in the preparation of many of the figures made it possible for me to include them in this essay. Notes Notes 1. Moe Meyer, “Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp,” in The Politics and Poetics of Camp, ed. Moe Meyer (London and New York: Rutgers University Press, 1994), p. 111. 2. Tory Dobrin, “Interview with Tory Dobrin—Artistic Director,”Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1, 110 min. [DVD] (Bel Air Media, Lark Productions, and TDK Recording Media, 2001). 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 5. Regan Rhyne, “Racializing White Drag,” in The Drag Queen Anthology, ed. Stephen P. Schacht with Lisa Underwood (Binghamton, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004), p. 185. 6. Matthew Bourne, quoted in Alastair Macaulay, Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Motion Pictures (London and New York: Faber and Faber, 1999), pp. 207–8. 7. Ibid., p. 208. 8. See, for example, Joan Nestle, Clare Howells, and Riki Wilchins, GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Los Angeles and New York: Alyson Books, 2002). 9. David Halperin, St. Foucault: Toward a Gay Hagiography (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 62. 10. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006). These and all subsequent dictionary definitions are from this edition. 11. Jonathon Dollimore, “Post/Modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authority,” in Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), p. 225. 12. Meyer, p. 11. 13. Susan Leigh Foster, “Closets Full of Dance: Modern Dance's Performance of Masculinity and Sexuality,” in Dancing Desire: Choreographing Sexualities on and off the Stage, ed. Jane Desmond (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), p. 194. 14. Ballets Trockadero, Vol. 1, 110 min. [DVD] (Bel Air Media, Lark Productions, TDK Recording Media, 2001); Swan Lake—Act II, starring Vanya Verikosa and Mikolojus Vatissnyem, recorded at the Maison de la Dance, Lyon. American Ballet Theatre in Swan Lake, 113 min. [DVD] (Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 2005); starring Gillian Murphy and Angel Corella, performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Adventures in Motion Pictures Presents Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, 117 min. [DVD] (BBC and NVC Arts, 1996); starring Adam Cooper and Scott Ambler. Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, 107 min. [DVD] (Deutsche Grammophon, 1987/2005); starring Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev with the Vienna State Opera Ballet, 1966. 15. I have used Bud Coleman's doctoral dissertation, “Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: A History of the Company, 1974–1990” (University of Texas at Austin, 1993), as a source for the early reviews of the company from which I quote. 16. Jacob Siskind (1970), quoted in Coleman, chapter IV, p. 90. 17. Deborah Jowitt (1975), quoted in Coleman, chapter IV, p. 118. 18. Coleman, p. 118. 19. Elizabeth Kendall (1975), quoted in Coleman, chapter IV, p. 97. 20. Graham Jackson (1976), quoted in Coleman, chapter IV, p. 111. 21. Alan Shaw, Jr. (1975), quoted in Coleman, chapter II, p. 69. 22. Gus Solomons jr, “Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake,” Dance Magazine (www.dancemagazine.com, 2006). 23. Stephen Schaefer, “Bourne to be Wild ...,” The Advocate, No. 771, October 27, 1998, p. 69. 24. David Roberts, “‘Swan Lake’ by Mathew Bourne,” Theatre Reviews Limited (www.theatrereviews.com, 1998). 25. Bourne in Macaulay, p. 209. 26. Macaulay, p. 210. 27. Bourne in Macaulay, pp. 221, 261. 28. Ibid., pp. 206, 207. 29. Ibid., pp. 240–41. 30. The Royal Ballet Covent Garden Swan Lake, 137 min. [DVD] (Thames Television and NVC Arts, Kultur International Films LTD, 1982); starring Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell, performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. 31. Foster, p. 193. 32. Bourne in Macaulay, p. 255. 33. Kent G. Drummond, “The Queering of Swan Lake: A New Male Gaze for the Performance of Sexual Desire,” Journal of Sexuality, Vol. 45, No. 2/3/4 (2003): 239. 34. Bourne in Macaulay, p. 261. 35. Ibid., p. 242

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