‘Just Crumbling to Bits’? An Exploration of the Body,                 Ageing, Injury and Career in Classical Ballet Dancers

Wainwright, Steven P.; Turner, Bryan S.

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“…However, in the following extract the player alludes to a transitionary strategy by talking about having to reduce the level of club he will be playing for as he gets older, signalling a need to stay connected with the sport for as long as possible. This resonates with some findings from Wainwright and Turner (2006) where an injured prima ballet dancer offered to dance in the chorus when her performance level dropped.…”

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“…It is proposed that Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus and capital are relevant as theoretical schema in terms of explaining broader relationships between the embodied self and the organized individual (Wacquant, 1995a;Wainwright and Turner, 2006). The concepts are linked where practice is the result of various habitual schemas and dispositions combined with resources (capital) being activated by social conditions (field) which they in turn reproduce and modify (Crossley, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Wainwright and Turner's (2006) study of ageing ballet dancers, for example, was of dancers who were coming to the end of their careers and where increasing age provided the epiphany 5 that encouraged dancers to reflect on their embodied habitus and career. It is suggested that physical and psychological immersion would have already been in decline for these participants, hence the kind of immersion that renders norms and practices as taken for granted or invisible would be reducing in order for the individual to begin to contemplate an alternative career path.…”

Section: Career Theories In Professional Sport Contextsmentioning

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2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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Entry and exit as embodied career choice in professional sport

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2015

Journal of Vocational Behavior

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“…This development has opened up channels for dialogue with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, embodiment has been explored sociologically through dance in a range of ways including: cultural theory and everyday life (Thomas 2003(Thomas , 2013 bodylore and bodily knowledge (Sklar, 1994(Sklar, , 2001, bodywork (BraceGovan, 2002), embodied identity (Dyck & Archetti, 2003) and ageing, injury and identity (Wainwright & Turner, 2006). There are some notable early exceptions, Novak (1988) for example, incorporated dance as a key exemplar in her work on culture.…”

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Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance

Iacono

Brown

2016

Dance Research

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UNESCO's effort to include many different types of human expression on its lists is commendable and an important attempt to safeguard aspects of the world's cultural heritage.However, we agree with Naguib (2008) that the use and interpretation of the term intangible is problematic to describe the complexity of human practices, because of the polarities implied by the notions of tangible/intangible, which insert a false distinction, in the form of a binary opposition, between the material and immaterial elements of culture. Instead, building on insights from Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (2004) and Ruggles and Silverman (2009), we argue that practices and the artefacts that surround them are embodied heritage, internal to all human beings and affecting us at physical and emotional levels. Therefore, the intangible and 3 tangible are indissolubly linked and a preferred definition might be developed around the idea of "living cultural heritage."The label of intangible is particularly problematic when considering dance as heritage, given the central role that the human body has in the practice of dance, and because the phenomenon of dance is simultaneously emergent from, and constitutive of culture and society. Buckland (2001, 1) confirms the increased social science interest in the body and performance has 'helped to raise the profile of dance as a significant academic site for cultural investigation'. This development has opened up channels for dialogue with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, embodiment has been explored sociologically through dance in a range of ways including: cultural theory and everyday life (Thomas 2003(Thomas , 2013 bodylore and bodily knowledge (Sklar, 1994(Sklar, , 2001, bodywork (BraceGovan, 2002), embodied identity (Dyck & Archetti, 2003) and ageing, injury and identity (Wainwright & Turner, 2006). There are some notable early exceptions, Novak (1988) for example, incorporated dance as a key exemplar in her work on culture. One reason for this, Buckland argues, drawing on Connerton's (1989) distinction between incorporated and inscribed practices, is that dance 'has a particular propensity to foreground cultural memory as embodied practice by virtue of its predominantly somatic modes of transmission', thus making dance strongly relevant to discussions of cultural heritage through the incorporation of specific cultural elements (such as artefacts and movement vocabularies) into its practice.Dance is also an inscribed practice as Blacking (1983, 97) illustrates, 'the bodily experience of performance can also stimulate the imagination and help to bring new coherence to the sensuous life, which in turn could affect motivation, commitment and decision-making in other spheres of social life.' Therefore, while culture is incorporated within dance, such dances are also inscribed with layers of shared meanings (which may be symbolic, narrative, 4 emotional, aesthetic depending on the genre) making it not only a site of cultural reception but also a site of cultura...

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“…While epiphanies were originally used to interpret the experiences of battered wives (Cho, 1988) and alcoholics (Denzin, 1987), their use has been extended to other topics including changing leisure options (Carpenter, 2003), dancing careers (Wainwright & Turner, 2006), and revealing sexual orientation (Thomas, Ross, & Harris, 2007). In a study that could be argued as exemplary of the most basic level of mass participation sport, Stewart and Smith (2014) examined the experiences of an elderly population with the transition from sedentary to regular gym workouts.…”

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Sport Transitions as Epiphanies

Griffiths

Barton-Weston

Walsh

2016

JAS

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Sport managers design development systems with the intent of retaining and advancing athletes through that system (Green, 2005). Important to this basic goal is the participant’s transition from one sport context to another. Transition research has focused primarily on elite athlete’s adaptation to career transitions as they advance at the highest levels or retire from sport (Wylleman & Lavallee, 2004). This orientation places a priority on the external transitions between sport structures before the internal, cognitive development of the athlete. This study examined the transitions of sport participants from an interpretive framework with the goal of understanding the individual’s experience of transition without it necessarily being linked to a typical external change. The sport stories of 48 students at a mid-sized, private university were collected and analyzed utilizing an interpretive paradigm. The disruption stage of these stories represents a time of crisis and transition. Denzin (2001) provided a typology for moments of crisis through four types of epiphanies: major, cumulative, illuminative, and relived. Using this typology of epiphanies can help sport managers to understand these transition events within the life of the participant. Analysis resulted in all disruptions being coded into one of the four original epiphany types. However, a large number of stories were categorized as major epiphanies. Further inductive coding yielded three sub-types of major epiphanies: major bodily, major life change, and major success. The stories within each type or subtype contained similarities in the speed of transition and the breadth of impact of the transition event. For example, stories of major bodily epiphany shared the immediate, life altering impact of significant injury while stories of cumulative shared the slow realization that the sport context had changed without the participant’s realization. Sport managers will be able to use the results of this study to understand and accommodate the pace and breadth of transition experienced by participants in their sport development systems thus maximizing the retention and advancement to the elite ranks.

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‘Just Crumbling to Bits’? An Exploration of the Body, Ageing, Injury and Career in Classical Ballet Dancers

Cited by 101 publications

References 35 publications

Entry and exit as embodied career choice in professional sport

Entry and exit as embodied career choice in professional sport

Beyond Binarism: Exploring a Model of Living Cultural Heritage for Dance

Sport Transitions as Epiphanies

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