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“It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance
Professional dancers typically retire before age 40. Although the physical requirements for dance performance are often considered the reason for retirement, there is an increasing number dance researchers who demonstrate that the idealization of youthfulness on the stage is also a result of complex...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8960028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35356096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.795541 |
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author | Markula, Pirkko Metzger, Kathy Bliss, Tamara Gervais, Wendy Rintoul, Mary Ann Vandkerkhove, Jodie |
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description | Professional dancers typically retire before age 40. Although the physical requirements for dance performance are often considered the reason for retirement, there is an increasing number dance researchers who demonstrate that the idealization of youthfulness on the stage is also a result of complex cultural, social, and economic realities and as such, in need of critique. As a group of mature women dancers who continue to perform, we aim to critique the idealization of youthfulness as a form of ageism in professional dance. In this paper, we present findings from our feminist memory-work study in which we critically reflected the rehearsals and performance of a choreography titled “Initiation.” We detail three main themes—”It Will Only Get Worse;” “It Can Be Magic;” “Once a Dancer Always a Dancer”—that emerged from our study. We conclude that we gained critical awareness of the gendered and ageist construction of dance as a performing art. As a result, we now feel empowered to continue our work as mature dance artists. |
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spelling | pubmed-89600282022-03-29 “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance Markula, Pirkko Metzger, Kathy Bliss, Tamara Gervais, Wendy Rintoul, Mary Ann Vandkerkhove, Jodie Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living Professional dancers typically retire before age 40. Although the physical requirements for dance performance are often considered the reason for retirement, there is an increasing number dance researchers who demonstrate that the idealization of youthfulness on the stage is also a result of complex cultural, social, and economic realities and as such, in need of critique. As a group of mature women dancers who continue to perform, we aim to critique the idealization of youthfulness as a form of ageism in professional dance. In this paper, we present findings from our feminist memory-work study in which we critically reflected the rehearsals and performance of a choreography titled “Initiation.” We detail three main themes—”It Will Only Get Worse;” “It Can Be Magic;” “Once a Dancer Always a Dancer”—that emerged from our study. We conclude that we gained critical awareness of the gendered and ageist construction of dance as a performing art. As a result, we now feel empowered to continue our work as mature dance artists. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8960028/ /pubmed/35356096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.795541 Text en Copyright © 2022 Markula, Metzger, Bliss, Gervais, Rintoul and Vandkerkhove. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Sports and Active Living Markula, Pirkko Metzger, Kathy Bliss, Tamara Gervais, Wendy Rintoul, Mary Ann Vandkerkhove, Jodie “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title | “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title_full | “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title_fullStr | “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title_full_unstemmed | “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title_short | “It Can Be Magic:” Creating Age Awareness Through Contemporary Dance |
title_sort | “it can be magic:” creating age awareness through contemporary dance |
topic | Sports and Active Living |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8960028/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35356096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.795541 |
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