Spectacles of Agency and Desire: Dance Histories and the Burlesque Stage

Lilianna Kane

Lilianna Tobey Kane is a dance artist from Brooklyn, New York.  She is currently in her 3rd year at The Ohio State University, working towards her BFA in dance. Prior to OSU, Lilianna trained at Dancewave Brooklyn and was a member of the Dancewave Company, where she learned and performed the works of Andrea Miller, Kyle Abraham, David Dorfman, Nathan Trice, Ronald K. Brown, and Twyla Tharp. Through OSU, Lilianna has had the pleasure to work with Bebe Miller, Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Rachel Sigrid Freeburg, Megan Davis, Serena Chang and Noelle Bohaty, among others.  Her own choreography has been produced in OSU’s student concerts as well.  Lilianna also has a strong interest in how gender studies and dance studies interact.  
 

Contents of this tag:

  1. Pleasure in Burlesque: Power in the Erotic and Presence
  2. Shaping Persona: The British Blondes and The Media
  3. The Stripped Body: Flesh and Social Significance
  4. Felt Pleasure or Performed Pleasure?
  5. Second-Hand Pleasure: Bettie Page's Bondage Films
  6. Gender Performativity and Burlesque: Exposing and Reversing the "Becoming"
  7. Unpredictability and Gender Codes: Blaze Starr's Stripping Short
  8. Neo-Burlesque Stars: A Challenge to Hegemonic Beauty
  9. Presence: Commanding a Gaze
  10. Modes of Challenging Social Systems: Humor and Non-Normative Bodies
  11. Policed Pleasure
  12. Neo-Burlesque Stars Challenging Hegemonic Beauty
  13. "The Bachelor Frolics:" Embodied Pleasure
  14. Blaze Starr 1950s Stripping Short: Embodied Pleasure

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