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Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance : Finding a Balance by Elisabeth Schwaiger (2011, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited
ISBN-100230276407
ISBN-139780230276406
eBay Product ID (ePID)109574202
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXiii, 213 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAgeing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance : Finding a Balance
Publication Year2011
SubjectGerontology, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Dance / General, Sociology / Marriage & Family
TypeTextbook
AuthorElisabeth Schwaiger
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-047521
Reviews'At the beginning of the twenty-first century, mature movement artists such as Kazuo Ohno, Anna Halprin, Carmen De Lavallade, and Liz Lerman's 'Dancers of the Third Age' company have amazed audiences around the world with their intense and nuanced performances. In her book, Elisabeth Schwaiger explores the rich aesthetic legacies of mature Australian dancers, offering a compelling analysis of the cultural proscriptions older dancers face daily and arguing for the importance of honoring their bodily wisdom.' - Ann Cooper Albright, Professor of Dance, Oberlin College, USA
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal128/.2
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 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
SynopsisThis 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberGV1580-1799.4
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