Danza y género / posibles miradas

Abstract

Which body is dancing? Why is dance still associated to a female world? What is involved in this association? What do we understand by dance and by female? How is dance created, produced and received and which is the influence of our ideas of gender on that reception? Who decides the way in which the body moves and how is this decided? What is moved when watching a dancing body? How does the history of dance influence our current practices? How is the discourse of dance history constructed in relation to gender? This and other questions get together, navigate and cast themselves away, not aiming to get answers, but rather to question our ways of thinking ourselves as bodies, to embody our movement, our practices as bodies that dance. In this paper, we share some experiences of dance classes for children as an example of how dance continues to be an activity associated to the female world.