The Aging Body in Motion: Dance, Women, and Culture

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Markula, Pirkko

• SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This proposed project is designed to contribute to the field of physical cultural studies (PCS). PCS is characterized as an emerging community of scholars who focus on the relationship between physical culture, power, and the moving/material body. By designing empirical, qualitative, transdisciplinary, and theoretically informed projects, PCS researchers are typically motivated by a political commitment for social change toward more equitable conditions through physical cultural practice. In this proposed project, I, as a researcher/dancer/choreographer, aim to answer the call for self-reflexive, theoreticallyinformed, empirical, and transformative PCS research through a political commitment for equitable conditions for mature women dancers and changes to ageism in society. Following PCS, this project adopts a qualitative methodology that enables an in-depth collection of empirical material concerning the everyday training and performance contexts of mature womenrecreational contemporary dancers. The proposed project is intended to occur over a five- year period.

• Date created

  2020-10-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Aging
  • Dance
  • Women
  • Physical Cultrual Studies
  • Women's Studies
  • Gender Issues
  • Arts and Culture
  • Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-psjf-ej28

• License

  ©️Markula, Pirkko. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.