“My job is to keep my body healthy”: biopedagogies, beauty and institutional greed in professional ballet
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Accès restreint UNIL
Etat: Public
Version: de l'auteur⸱e
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
ID Serval
serval:BIB_30EBFC2018F3
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
“My job is to keep my body healthy”: biopedagogies, beauty and institutional greed in professional ballet
Périodique
Psychology & Health
ISSN
0887-0446
1476-8321
1476-8321
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
21/02/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Pages
1-18
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Context: The ballet institution is known for its aesthetic and per-formative standards. In professional dancers’ everyday lives, self-improvement and body awareness entwine with striving for artistic excellence. In this context, ‘health’ has primarily been explored in relation to eating disorders, pain, and injuries.Aim: This paper explores dancers’ health practices, namely how they are shaped by the ballet institution and how they relate to broader health discourses.Methodology: A reflexive thematic analysis was conducted upon interviews with nine dancers (each interviewed twice) using a theoretical framework based on the concepts of greedy institutions and biopedagogies.Analyses: Two themes were developed: What it takes to be an ‘insider’ of the ballet institution and Learning to develop an acute embodied self-awareness. Dancers described ballet as a ‘lifestyle’ rather than a ‘job’; practices of self-care defined by continuous self and body work were framed as necessary to meet the demands of this lifestyle. Participants ‘played with’ institutional and societal norms, often resisting docile bodies promoted within the ballet institution.Conclusion: Dancers’ constructions of health and the art of ballet as not fitting neatly into ‘good’ nor ‘bad’ make room to consider the tensions between adopting and resisting dominant health discourses in this institution.
Mots-clé
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Applied Psychology, General Medicine
Pubmed
Open Access
Oui
Création de la notice
23/02/2023 15:04
Dernière modification de la notice
24/02/2023 7:50