Professional Contemporary Dancers Becoming Mothers: Navigating Disrupted Habitus and Identity Loss/Evolution in a UK Context

Autor/inn/en	Pickard, Angela; Ehnold-Danailov, Anna
Titel	Professional Contemporary Dancers Becoming Mothers: Navigating Disrupted Habitus and Identity Loss/Evolution in a UK Context
Quelle	In: Research in Dance Education, 24 (2023) 1, S.5-19 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pickard, Angela) ORCID (Ehnold-Danailov, Anna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1464-7893
DOI	10.1080/14647893.2023.2167973
Schlagwörter	Dance; Professional Personnel; Females; Pregnancy; Mothers; Child Rearing; Careers; Social Influences; Professional Identity; Barriers; Foreign Countries; Parents; Human Body; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tanz; Personalbestand; Weibliches Geschlecht; Schwangerschaft; Mother; Mutter; Kindererziehung; Career; Karriere; Sozialer Einfluss; Ausland; Eltern; Menschlicher Körper; Großbritannien
Abstract	There is a paucity of research into female-identifying dancers as parents, how the transition from dancer to pregnancy to parent is managed, and whether and how a dancing parent can maintain a career in dance. This paper shares findings from a qualitative interview study with (n = 30), predominantly female professional contemporary dancers that have become parents and are working within the contemporary dance industry in the UK. It uses Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual framework of belief and practice to make greater sense of how the dancers navigate becoming parents and the disruption to their dancer's habitus and embodied identity, as they attempt to manage work-family conflicts within contemporary dance. Findings reveal that when the dancers became a parent the disrupted taken-for-granted norms and expectations of the dancer's habitus and identity as a dancer, intensified the fragility of lives and livelihoods and brought new physical, psychological, social and economic vulnerabilities. The dancers in the study shared experiences of barriers, but also enablers for dancers that are parents within the contemporary dance industry in the UK, with examples of managing transition, evolution of identities and capital gain. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01