Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance Finding a Balance

by Schwaiger, Elisabeth

• ISBN13: 9780230276406
• ISBN10: 0230276407
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the nexus between gender, ageing and culture in dancers practicing a variety of genres. It challenges existing cultural norms which equate ageing with bodily decline and draws on an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to explore alternatives for developing a culturally valued mature subjectivity through the practice of dance.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Schwaiger is Researcher; Tutor, and Administrator at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia. Her research interests include critical age studies, dance, gender studies, and socially marginalized populations. She completed her doctorate degree at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and her academic publications are in these areas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Prelude	p. ix
Constructing Ageing, Gender and Self	p. 1
Gendered Ageing in Theatrical Dance	p. 27
The Dancers Speak	p. 48
Dancing between Construction and Experience	p. 79
Dancing the Self through Ageing	p. 117
Counterdiscourses	p. 139
Valuing the Mature Dancer: Cross-cultural Perspectives	p. 155
Appendix Constructing Ageing and Gender: A Selective Literature Review	p. 168
References	p. 201
Index	p. 211
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