Yes? No! Maybe...

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Setting the Scene 2. X6: A Hinge in Time Part 1: Yes? Fantasies of Perfection: Setting the Scene for Change 3. Upward Line 4. Watching Ballet: Illusion Becoming Real 5. Performing Ballet: Real Becoming Illusion 6. Classical Androgyny 7. Cracking the Myth 8. The Oedipal Narrative 9. An Articulate Silence 10. Dying to Please Part 2: No! Coming down to Earth as Dancing Subjects 11. Expressions from the Lifeworld 12. Figures of Parody 13. Subverting Tragedy 14. Feminist Battles with Androgyny 15. Within the Frame of Nw Dance 16. Letting go of the Mirror 17. A Figure of Jouissance 18. K/no/w Body of Illusion: Seduction in Reverse 19. Derrida's Presents 20. Parallel Emergences 21. Different Visibilities 22. Negation of Seduction 23. The Other of the Other 24. Kristeva's Crunch 25. Collective Strategies 26. The X6 Legacy 27. Drawn to the Mainstream 28. Repertory versus Project 29. Middle-Mush Part 3: Maybe... Full Body, Empty Body and Ambiguous Points of Play 30. Process to Product 31. Full Body Empty Body 32. The Chameleon 33. Boys Transcending 34. His Look is his Gaze 35. Bodies of Pleasure 36. Letting go of Fear 37. Re-Figuring Androgyny 38. Queer Living 39. Re-Dressing the Girls Conclusion 40. Eye Flight Notes Bibliography