Social worlds shape human bodies and so it is inevitable that there are strong relationships
between the body, professional dance and identity. In this article we draw on Bourdieu's …

This article is concerned with epistemological questions of dance, specifically, the nature of
dance knowledge. The aim is to address the role of our bodily activity and the tactile …

The Routledge Dance Studies Reader represents the range and diversity of writings from
the 1980s and 1990s, providing contemporary perspectives on ballet, modern dance …

This paper contributes to debate on social constructionism in the sociology of health and
illness through a study of injury among ballet dancers. In this empirical study of classical …

Ballet is, for reasons that are unclear, a neglected topic in the sociology of the body. Our
article works on three levels: firstly, as an account of ex-dancers''lived experience'of …

The overall aim of our research was to produce an ethnography of ballet as a social practice.
We draw upon our fieldwork at the Royal Ballet (London) where we conducted 20 in-depth …

Our ethnography of the balletic body is a contribution to the relatively small corpus of
empirical research studies on embodiment in general and on dance as a social practice in …

In the quote from Bettie (2003) an American high school girl from a working-class family,
whose school friends are all much richer, expresses the 'problems' she has with managing …

Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer
history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer …

Awarded QRSIG's Honerable Mention for 2021 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award
Winner Arts-Based Educational Research and Qualitative Inquiry introduces novice …