Ageing, Gender, Embodiment and Dance: Finding a Balance

✍ Scribed by Elisabeth Schwaiger (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 227
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Constructing Ageing, Gender and Self....Pages 1-26
Gendered Ageing in Theatrical Dance....Pages 27-47
The Dancers Speak....Pages 48-78
Dancing between Construction and Experience....Pages 79-116
Dancing the Self through Ageing....Pages 117-138
Counterdiscourses....Pages 139-154
Valuing the Mature Dancer: Cross-cultural Perspectives....Pages 155-167
Back Matter....Pages 168-213

✦ Subjects

Dance; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Performing Arts

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