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Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia; Andersson, Ninnie – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
This article communicates a study on dance for people over 65 in Sweden. Earlier studies on dance for elderly people have primarily focused on treatment and wellbeing. The current study centers on the right to make oneself heard in and through contemporary dance as an artistic form of expression, regardless of age, gender, or geographical context.…
Descriptors: Females, Dance, Older Adults, Foreign Countries
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Andersson, Ninnie; Ferm Almqvist, Cecilia – Research in Dance Education, 2020
This study sheds light on dance as democracy among people 65+. The article presents a study that is part of the project Age on Stage, in which elderly people were offered to express themselves through dance as an aesthetic form of expression. Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir are applied as philosophical lenses. Elderly people's participation…
Descriptors: Dance, Democracy, Older Adults, Program Descriptions