Rumba music starts and a floor full of dancers alternate clinging to one another and turning away. Rumba is an erotic dance; and the mood is hot and heavy; the women bend and hyperextend their legs as they twist and turn around their partners. Amateur and professional ballroom dancers alike compete in a highly gendered display of intimacy; romance and sexual passion.In Dance With Me; Julia Ericksen; a competitive ballroom dancer herself; takes the reader onto the competition floor and into the lights and the glamour of a world of tanned bodies and glittering attire; exploring the allure of this hyper-competitive; difficult; and often expensive activity. In a vivid ethnography accompanied by beautiful photographs of all levels of dancers; from the worldrsquo;s top competitors to social dancers; Ericksen examines the ways emotional labor is used to create intimacy between professional partners and between professionals and their students; illustrating how dancers purchase intimacy. She shows that; while at first glance; ballroom presents a highly gendered face with men leading and women following; dancing also transgresses gender.
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