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Ageing, gender, embodiment and dance = finding a balance /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ageing, gender, embodiment and dance/ Elisabeth Schwaiger.
Reminder of title:	finding a balance /
Author:	Schwaiger, Elisabeth,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 213 p.)
Subject:	Dance - Physiological aspects. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230359086
ISBN:	9780230359086 (electronic bk.)

Ageing, gender, embodiment and dance = finding a balance /
Schwaiger, Elisabeth,1957-

Ageing, gender, embodiment and dancefinding a balance /[electronic resource] :Elisabeth Schwaiger. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 213 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Prelude -- Constructing Ageing, Gender and Self -- Gendered Ageing in Theatrical Dance -- The Dancers Speak -- Dancing Between Construction and Experience -- Dancing the Self Through Ageing -- Counter-discourses -- Valuing the Mature Dancer: Cross-cultural Perspectives -- Coda -- Appendix A: Constructing Ageing and Gender: a Selective Literature Review -- References -- Index.

Dancers in Western cultures have traditionally been subject to age-grading and have retired earlier from performance than those in less body-based professions. The underlying rationale for this has been that the dancer no longer possesses the physical capital to successfully execute the physically demanding steps, assumptions that�this book challenges. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it critically examines how dancers' bodies are constructed, experienced, and understood within their culture as they age, arguing that both gender and the dance genre practiced and performed inform dancers' perceptions and constitution as a mature dancing subject. Focusing predominantly on dancers in Western cultures which value gendered youthful physicality, it presents an alternative, nondualistic understanding of the mature dancer as culturally situated and embodied, where the 'interior' and 'exterior', practice and performance, the studio and the stage, are not separate but imbricated in this constitution.

ISBN: 9780230359086 (electronic bk.)

Source: 467343Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Dance
--Physiological aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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LC Class. No.: GV1595 / .S34 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 128/.2

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