Female Self-Empowerment through Dance

What is it about?

I discuss strategies I use in my class to support dance as a way to challenge, change, or transcend sanctioned female identities by shifting the focus from presentation to self-discovery, encouraging ownership of the movement, and exploring a range of physicalities that embody different aspects of the psyche—some socially defined as “masculine” (such as hard-hitting, percussive, aggressive) or “feminine” (such as soft, rounded, lyrical) movement.

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Photo by Julia Caesar on Unsplash

Photo by Julia Caesar on Unsplash

Why is it important?

With the attack from the Supreme Court on the rights of women to own their bodies, I believe this article that examines finding agency in the female body is needed.

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