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Direct linkRitenburg, Heather Margaret – Research in Dance Education, 2010
This paper explores the social construction of the "ideal" body of the female ballet dancer in North America. Specifically, the author constructs a Foucauldian genealogy tracing a body shape that came to dominate the principal female dancers of the New York City Ballet, and how this body shape continues to be normalized through…
Descriptors: Dance, Self Concept, Human Body, Females
