The 'Female' Dancer: a soma-scientific approach

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Bodily Knowledge
	1. Growing up in Dance: Experiencing the Pubertal Transition in Leotard and Tights
	2. Female Dancer Hormone Health
	3. Female Dancers: Food, Nutrients and Body Composition
	4. Ballet Culture and Body Image in Recreational Dance Training
	5. A Somatic Approach to Audiencing
	6. Embodied Experience of Bodies with Breasts
Part II: Moving through Change
	7. Strength Training Considerations for Female Dancers
	8. Pelvic Floor Considerations for Female Dancers through the Lifespan
	9. Improvising with the Pain(s) of Endometriosis
	10. The Pregnant Dancer
	11. Fascia Illuminated
	12. FEMALEtraces
	The Embodied Archive of the Self
Part III: Taking up Space
	13. Sustaining a Dance Career as a Parent
	14. Dancer (Noun)—Mother, Daughter, Sister, Colleague, Partner, Warrior, Sorceress, Friend
	15. Are you a Leader? The L-word that Women in Dance Fear
	16. Coming out is a Protest: A Score for Ritual Queer Emergence
	17. Geometry of Gender: Analysing the Anatomical Specifications of the Bharatanatyam Dancer
Part IV: Embodied Wisdom
	18. Foregrounding (the) Self in Dance Practice
	19. There’s Wisdom in them Bones—Moving Beyond the Shape
	20. The Trees, my Pelvis and Dancing through a Life
	21. Dancing to Live
	22. Body Scapes: Celebrating Seasonality of Wellbeing in Somatic Dialoguing with the Natural World
	SCORE—FEMALEtraces
Resource List
Index