“…Pickard (2013) explored habitus in ballet dancers and argued that dancers developed an "unconscious ballet habitus" (p. 3) that was transmitted though dance contexts and informed dancers' understandings of the relationship between their bodies and identities. Foucault's work on docile bodies and Bourdieu's concept of habitus are both relevant to female athletes (Beckner & Record, 2015;Clarke & Markula, 2017;Harder & Theune, 2017;Rudd & Carter, 2006) and particularly to dancers (Alexias & Dimitropoulou, 2011;Clarke & Markula, 2017;Green, 2001;Kleiner, 2009;Pickard, 2013Pickard, , 2015Tai, 2014;Wainwright, Williams, & Turner, 2006).…”