The 'Female' Dancer (eBook, PDF)

a soma-scientific approach
Redaktion: Farmer, Claire; Kindred, Helen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 'Female' Dancer aims to question dancers' relationships with 'female' through the examination and understandings of biological, anatomical, scientific, and self-social identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040023778
• Artikelnr.: 70509363

Autorenporträt

Claire Farmer is a senior lecturer in Dance Science at Middlesex University, UK. Helen Kindred is a senior lecturer in Dance at Middlesex University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Claire Farmer and Helen Kindred

PART I: Bodily knowledge

1. Growing up in dance: Experiencing the pubertal transition in leotard and tights



Siobhan Mitchell



2. Female dancer hormone health

Nicky Keay

3. Female dancers: food, nutrients and body composition

Jasmine Challis

4. Ballet culture and body image in recreational dance training

Rebekah Wall

5. A somatic approach to audiencing

Carolina Bergonzoni

6. Embodied experience of bodies with breasts

Amelia Millward and James Brouner

PART II: Moving through change

7. Strength training considerations for female dancers

Claire Farmer

8. Pelvic floor considerations for female dancers through the lifespan

Brooke Winder

9. Improvising with the pain(s) of endometriosis

Kate March

10. The pregnant dancer

Chloe Hillyar

11. Fascia illuminated

May Kesler

12. FEMALEtraces

Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok

The embodied archive of the self

Celia Shaw Morris

PART III: Taking up space

13. Sustaining a dance career as a parent

Lucy McCrudden and Angela Pickard

14. Dancer (noun)-mother, daughter, sister, colleague, partner, warrior, sorceress, friend

Erica Stanton

15. Are you a leader? The L word that women in dance fear

Avatâra Ayuso

16. Coming out is a protest: A score for ritual queer emergence

Kars Dodds

17. Geometry of gender: Analysing the anatomical specifications of a Bharatanatyam dancer

Shreya Srivastava and Shilpa Darivemula

PART IV: Embodied wisdom

18. Foregrounding (the) self in dance practice

Gemma Harman and Jayne McKee

19. There's wisdom in them bones-Moving beyond the shape

Janine Cappello

20. The trees, my pelvis and dancing through a life

Celeste Nazeli Snowber

21. Dancing to live

Stella Eldon

22. Body scapes: Celebrating seasonality of well being in somatic dialoguing with the natural world

Anna Dako in collaboration with Martina Polleros

SCORE-FEMALEtraces



Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok