The Elegant Passion

Peters, Sally

doi:10.1111/j.0022-3840.1992.1674153.x

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“…Sally Peters's (1992) descriptions of ballroom dance confirmed the seemingly dichotomous behaviors we observed in our research. As an academic scholar, Peters noted that the majority of ballroom dancers assume mannerisms of typical male/female stereotypes; men's powerful movements exemplify domination and aggressiveness, while women's fragile movements exemplify vulnerability and frailty (Peters 1992, 167).…”

Section: "I Love To Be Pretty": Feminists As Ballroom Dancers In the supporting

confidence: 86%

The Choreography of Gender

Leib

Bulman

2007

Men and Masculinities

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The popularity of ballroom dance has ebbed and flowed over the years. In this article we argue that the attitude Americans have toward ballroom dance reflects society's acceptance and rejection of different expressions of femininity and masculinity. Although ballroom dance is predicated on rigid gender roles, its popularity has increased in the United States over the past few years. We use in-depth interviews and participant observation to explore how modern ballroom dancers express their masculinity and femininity on and off the dance floor. We find that men and women construct complex gender identities that are both traditional and progressive. Some are creating gender identities incorporating traditional and nontraditional traits. Our interviewees reinforced this gender complexity and showed that no one is bound to one standard of masculinity or femininity. Rather, each person is free to choreograph his or her own gender identity.

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Section: "I Love To Be Pretty": Feminists As Ballroom Dancers In the supporting

confidence: 86%

The Choreography of Gender

Leib

Bulman

2007

Men and Masculinities

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“…Whether on the dance floor or off the dance floor, they are consumed by their own imagination of dancing, such as practicing courtship rituals, being in love in tango, so that people can see attractive and attractive relationships at a glance. Outside the ballroom, are they still partners?” [ 29 ]. The feeling of freshness was mentioned by seven participants in this domain.…”

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“…Was it just a partner off the court? [ 29 ]. As a kind of athlete–athlete partnership that had different characteristics in different sports [ 8 ], instant intimacy was the essential feature that distinguished the partnership between dance sport couples from other sports.…”

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Partnership between Chinese Dance Sport Couples: A Consensual Qualitative Research Analysis

Liu

Guan

Wang

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IJERPH

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The aim of our study was to explore the conceptions related to partnership between dance sport couples. We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 registered athletes of the Chinese Dance Sports Federation (CDSF) about partnership between dance couples, using the Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) method. Results revealed that partnership tended to stem from seven domains: (1) mutual understanding, (2) instant intimacy, (3) long-term affection, (4) obligational ties, (5) instrumental ties, (6) tacit factors, and (7) mutual self-disclosure. Each domain included several categories of core ideas, most of which were general and typical across the respondents. The general and most typical core ideas were related to mutual understanding in all aspects (17T), pleasure (18T), sense of substitution (15T), intimacy (20G), harmony (20G), mutual help (20G), mutual tolerance (20G), mutual attraction (15T), responsibility (20G), training plan (12T), consistent goals (20G), skills improvement (20G), image matching (16T), mutual self-disclosure (18T), which suggested a general belief in the equity perspective regarding partnership between Chinese dance sport couples. Future studies need to examine diverse samples of athlete–athlete dyads to advance interpersonal theory in sports and add to emerging theories of performance behavior and expertise in sport.

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“…With the material and symbolic representation of conventional, pre-feminist gender dynamics, numerous scholars argue that figure skating and ballroom dancing are sites for the reproduction of hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and unequal gender relations (Adams, 2011;McMains, 2006;Meneau, 2020;Peters, 1992). Hegemonic masculinity is conceptualised as a pattern of practice that legitimates and reproduces unequal gender relations between men and women, and masculinity and femininity (Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005).…”

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Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice

2021

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Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing on Ice are primetime reality television shows that promote partner dancing as a form of leisure in the UK. Both shows have consistently represented partner dancing as a partnership between a man and a woman. However, in 2019 and 2020male/male partnerships were introduced into both shows for the first time. Drawing on media reports that discuss these male/male partnerships, this paper explores how the partnerships were represented and made sense of by mainstream and LGBT + media. Employing thematic discourse analysis, we demonstrate how the male/male dance partnerships were framed by a complex and contradictory inclusive masculinity discourse. On the one hand, this discourse celebrated the male/male couples as evidence that Britain is a progressive society in which homophobia is in decline. At the same time, the representations largely centred on the male dance couples’ bromances while ignoring or silencing discourses of gay love or sex. We show that although the representations can be viewed as a positive step forward, there were also some limitations to the representations which necessitate more critical examination in future research

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The Elegant Passion

Cited by 8 publications

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The Choreography of Gender

The Choreography of Gender

Partnership between Chinese Dance Sport Couples: A Consensual Qualitative Research Analysis

Analysing Media Reactions to Male/Male Dance Partnerships On British Reality TV Shows: Inclusive Masculinity in Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing On Ice

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