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Direct linkPickard, Angela – Research in Dance Education, 2022
Socio-economic disadvantage can be a significant barrier to accessing high-quality dance training for young, talented dancers. Government policy and strategy relating to widening participation and talent development in the UK are premised on raising aspirations and meritocracy. This article uses Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual framework of field,…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Student Participation, Access to Education, Talent Development
Pickard, Angela – Research in Dance Education, 2013
This paper explores what is perceived and believed to be an ideal ballet body by young ballet dancers. Such bodily belief becomes, in Pierre Bourdieu's terms, a core part of a ballet dancer's habitus. A four year longitudinal, ethnographic, empirical study of the experiences of 12 young ballet dancers, six boys and six girls, aged between 10 and…
Descriptors: Dance, Human Body, Longitudinal Studies, Ethnography
Pickard, Angela – Research in Dance Education, 2012
This paper explores how young ballet dancers' bodies are constructed and narrated through their desire to become performing ballet dancers. The schooling of the balletic body engages the young dancer in embodying the discipline of ballet and in developing a particular belief in a performing body. The embodied set of acquired dispositions that are…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Human Body, Individual Characteristics
Bailey, Richard; Pickard, Angela – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
This paper was stimulated by the authors' attempt to understand the process of skill learning in dance. Its stimulus was a period of fieldwork based at the Royal Ballet School in London, and subsequent discussions with the school's teachers and with academic colleagues about how it was that the young dancers developed their characteristic set of…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Information Processing, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Pickard, Angela; Bailey, Richard – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
Crystallising experiences are defined as memorable reactions an individual has to some quality or feature of an activity or domain that yields a long-term change in the individual performance and their view of themselves (Walters & Gardner, 1986; Freeman, 1999). This paper explores the nature and consequences of crystallising experiences from…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Dance, Foreign Countries, Career Development
Wellard, Ian; Pickard, Angela; Bailey, Richard – Gender and Education, 2007
Participation in physical activities, in and out of school, remains heavily influenced by social constructions of gendered behaviour. In addition, the body plays a significant part in the presentation of legitimate performances of physical practice and the construction of a physical "identity". The consequence is that in formalized…
Descriptors: Dance, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Human Body
