ERIC Number: EJ1400676
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1356-9783
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Spaces for Ambiguities: Playing with Hair in Community Theatre for Teenage Girls
Research in Drama Education, v28 n4 p678-693 2023
This article concerns how the normative matter of body hair is playfully encountered within a theatre practice for teenage girls. By working with Deleuzian-inspired theories, playfulness is understood as embodied doings, interwoven with the local context. The article explores how playfulness is enacted in relation to the everyday, in particular body hair removal. The analysis shows how playfulness is an ambiguous feature enacted together with bodies, affects and materialities. Moreover, playfulness became both a restricting and a transformative force reproducing the already known while also opening up a critical approach of playing with the violent aspects of hair removal.
Descriptors: Females, Theater Arts, Play, Human Body, Educational Theories, Transformative Learning, Adolescents, Ethnography, Hygiene, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Immigrants, Creative Activities, Music
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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