ReDefining Masculinity How the Media Can Help Us

Re-Defining Masculinity: How the Media Can Help Us See Dance Differently Timothy Janovsky BA in Theatre and Dance from Muhlenberg College

Why I Care And Why You Should Too. . . ● Dance practitioners and viewers ● Consumers of media ● Fourth-wave feminists and the #Me. Too movement (feminist media studies) ● Cycles of abuse and stifling patriarchy

Brief Overview of Masculinity in Dance ● Hegemonic masculinity breeds heterosexism and popular misogyny ● Romantic Era → male dancers in passive roles ● Sergei Diaghilev → Nijinsky queers the ballet ● Homosexlaulity → Oscar Wilde → Femininity → Ballet ● Ted Shawn → legitimize men in dance with athleticism

NYCB Scandal in the New York Times

A Pas de Deux with Words “The company dismissed Amar Ramasar, one of its brightest stars” “Mr. Ramasar, a principal since 2009, was one of the company’s leading lights. Born in the Bronx, he established himself as one of City Ballet’s most dynamic, charismatic presences in the core Balanchine repertory and, especially, in new work. This year he appeared as Jigger Craigin in the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” at the Imperial Theater in what Ben Brantley described in The New York Times as “an electric Broadway debut. ” Mr. Catazaro, who was born in Canton, Ohio, became a principal dancer with the company in October. ”

First Comes Sweat, then Comes Beauty

Re-framing the Narrative, Re-defining Masculinity

THANK YOU Further Questions? Contact me: timothyjanovsky@gmail. com Bibliography available upon request