Every “Body” Has a History

Date
2011-04-02
Authors
Ritenburg, Heather
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University of Regina Graduate Students' Association
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Every ‘body’ has a history, and my body has a history shaped by and through years of dance training. In this presentation I share the story of coming to my doctoral dissertation - research in which I inquire into relationships between the embodied history of dance teachers and their pedagogy. It is the story of the world of classical ballet in which the intentional absenting, alienating, and separating of the body encounters the knowing that is possible in the pedagogical relationship of teacher and student. In that encounter was created a space within which I consider the ideas of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Max van Manen among others. In this story are conversations which make visible the ethical and political complexities which characterize schooling and dance education.

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Body, Embodiment, Dance education, Phenomenology, Post structuralism
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