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100 1 0 _aLaillier, Joël
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245 0 0 _aChild ballet students   and men. Putting the gender identity of apprentice dancers to the test
260 _c2016.
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520 _aOf Petits rats and Men. The Trouble with Boys’ Ballet Students. Based on a study about Paris Opera Ballet students and their families, this article questions the role of gender to understand how boys become ballet dancers. Because classical ballet is considered a girl’s activity, young boys engaged in professionnel ballet school are in a complex situation: on the one hand they are facing social stigma related to the transgression of the gender order, on the other, they take advantage of their atypical calling. The research shows that responding to a dancer calling requires to negociate the gender identity for which social and familial conditions play a decisive role.
690 _aBallet
690 _aArtistic vocation
690 _aGender
690 _aParis Opera
690 _aMasculinities
786 0 _nEthnologie française | 46 | 1 | 2016-01-14 | p. 31-44 | 0046-2616
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-ethnologie-francaise-2016-1-page-31?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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