Blackamoors on Ballet Stages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14998596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Järvinen (0000-0001-9081-9906, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-159 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1054204325101093 |
| OpenAlex | W7133538316 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Over the past decade, several prominent ballet companies have come under fire for perpetuating racist stereotypes. With blackface, the discourse has focused on the United States and minstrelsy. Ballet’s far older alliance with European colonialism, however, entangles Orientalism and racism, Africa and Asia-Pacific, in the figure of the “blackamoor.”
Alliance · Ballet · Ballet dancer · Dance · Orientalism · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
The Races of Europe
Staging a ‘Children’s Classic’, teaching racism
Transoceanic Blackface
Dancing on Violent Ground
The Dance That Will Not Die
Fatty Boom Boom and the Transnationality of Blackface in Die Antwoord's Racial Project
The Real Bayadère Meets the Ballerina on the Western Stage
Black Ballerinas
Yearning for the Spiritual Ideal
Coppélia 's Human-Objects
Ballets Russes and Blackface
As Long as They Have Talent”
Reinventing Africa in their own image
The “Black” Man From Nowhere
Domesticating the Turks, Staging Otherness. The Tradition of Embodying the Turks, the Parata dei Turchi of Potenza and Its Narration in 20th-Century Folkloric Descriptions
The Specter of the Blackamoor
Dear Science and Other Stories
Imagining Africa and blackness in the Russian empire
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |