ERIC Number: EJ1450061
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1529-0824
EISSN: EISSN-2158-074X
Methods for Body Positivity in Dance Practices
Journal of Dance Education, v24 n4 p289-296 2024
The whole person is a valued part of their dance community, and a healthy community plays an important role in the individual dancer's self-identity and social, psychological, and overall health. As a dance community, we need to do everything we can to help increase body positivity through empathetic and empowering methods that bring everyBODY together. This article focuses on practices that involve making sure all bodies are represented; encouraging social connection and a sense of community, reducing body checking, influencing positive thinking, nurturing a mind-body-spirit connection, and instilling empathy, value, and acceptance in students. These methods are likely to be trigger-free for dancers because they do not specifically target issues of trauma nor do they introduce dancers to potentially new concepts of negative self-image. Simple methods increase ease of implementation; therefore less stress is placed on the educator as well.
Descriptors: Dance Education, Human Body, Self Concept, Empowerment, Positive Attitudes, Empathy, Educational Practices, Educational Environment, Interpersonal Relationship, Metacognition, Values
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Language: English
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