Ripe with meaning: the pregnant body in contemporary dance

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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. Through interviews, this thesis investigates how the pregnant dancing body is understood and experienced

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