Jeffrey Allison, Markula Pirkko, Story Corinne
Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Front Sports Act Living. 2022 Feb 15;4:795956. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2022.795956. eCollection 2022.
In this article, we draw upon the experiences of mature recreational dancers who participated in classes facilitated by a professional ballet company and catered to older adults. Moving with 11 women through a 10-week ballet course, and immersing ourselves in the empirical material, we recognized opportunities for broadening our analysis of aging dancing bodies. Inspired by a Latourian understanding of bodies and a recent new materialist turn in humanities and social sciences, we became curious about the ways that the women were being affected by their experiences in ballet. The ballet studio, the barre, muscles, sweat, and music were all discussed as influential aspects contributing to their understandings of aging and dancing. Moving beyond biomedical prescriptions and extending socio-cultural constructions, we reveal opportunities for Latourian theory to dance with us toward re-imagining what is possible for aging recreational ballet dancers. Here, we allow the women's articulations of aging in ballet to exist as unique expressions unbound by limitations. Moving with women as they learn to become more affected through dance, we are given the opportunity to think about bodies, ballet and aging differently.
在本文中，我们借鉴了成熟的休闲舞者的经验，这些舞者参加了由一家专业芭蕾舞公司开设并面向老年人的课程。与11名女性一起经历了为期10周的芭蕾舞课程，并沉浸于实证材料之中，我们认识到有机会拓宽对衰老的舞蹈身体的分析。受拉图尔对身体的理解以及人文社会科学领域近期新唯物主义转向的启发，我们开始好奇这些女性在芭蕾舞经历中是如何受到影响的。芭蕾舞工作室、把杆、肌肉、汗水和音乐都被讨论为有助于她们理解衰老与舞蹈的有影响力的因素。超越生物医学的规定并扩展社会文化建构，我们揭示了拉图尔理论与我们一同舞动，以重新想象衰老的休闲芭蕾舞舞者可能实现之事的机会。在此，我们让女性对芭蕾舞中衰老的表达作为不受限制的独特表现而存在。与女性一起移动，她们在学习通过舞蹈变得更易受影响，我们有机会以不同方式思考身体、芭蕾舞和衰老。
