Ripe with meaning: the pregnant body in contemporary dance

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Title Ripe with meaning: the pregnant body in contemporary dance
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Fine Arts
Department Dance, Modern
Author Schaumann, Marney Debenham
Date 2010
Description During the last thirty years research about dance and dancing bodies had provided a fertile ground for discussion and investigation. Significant presentations have been made about the subject, innumerable articles have been written and a multitude of books have been published that address the dancing body as viewed from the perspectives of identity, race, power, politics, social status, gender, sexuality, and so on. One relatively unaddressed area in this ever-expanding discussion are perceptions, attitudes and biases that are held about dancing pregnant bodies, particularly the implications of these bodies in the studio and on stage. As a unique, altered body, the dancing body has been silent in the wings, marginalized, perhaps even ‘put away'. Until it is aesthetically/physically regarded as being ready to be brought into sight it will remain an elusive and enigmatic moving form.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Contemporary dance; Dancing pregnant; Motherhood; Pregnancy in media; Pregnant body; Work/life balance
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MFA
Language eng
Rights Management ©Marney Debenham Schaumann
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 341,982 bytes
Source original in Marriott Library Special Collections ; GV8.5 2010 .S33
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Setname ir_etd
ID 192497
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rb7k2c
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