“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I have never seen a ballet performance that has not disappointed me.” DanceGenderProgressiveBalletAvant GardeExperimental Book:The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality Source: The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexuality