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The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze Feminist
Critiques of Early Modern Dance

• By Susan Manning

Edited by Dr. Kay Picart and Donna
Gallagher Based on a presentation by Natalie
Collins
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Key Terms

• Gaze Theory
• Voyeuristic Gaze
• Fetishistic

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Whats Your View

• Do you feel that ballet or modern dance engages
  in voyeuristic gaze? In what dance forms would
  you consider yourself as a spectator to be a
  voyeur?

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???Discussion Questions???

• Do you feel that productions of modern film and
  dance are controlled by men or women, why or why
  not? What would be an example?
• Do you believe there are films that incorporate
  the female gaze more than the male?