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O'Flynn, Gabrielle; Pryor, Zoe; Gray, Tonia – Journal of Dance Education, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine nine Australian young women's embodied experiences of dance. The young women were all amateur dancers involved in weekly jazz, tap, and ballet dance classes at the same dance studio. In this paper, embodiment is defined as multidimensional (Burkitt 1999). The authors explore the ways the corporeal and the…
Descriptors: Females, Dance Education, Foreign Countries, Femininity
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Gard, Michael – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted in this paper is that dance educators have tended to see dance as a self-evidently good thing with self-evident benefits for children who learn to dance. In other words, dance educators tend to concern themselves with why students should dance rather than why…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Educational Objectives, Males, Physical Education