Dance Education: Body positivity
Dance Education is a series of articles that will focus on various aspects of the teaching-learning environment, methodology, practice and more. Bringing together varied perspectives from across regions, ideologies and styles, we hope to encourage an active dialogue about what one might consider to be one of the most significant links between the performing arts and the world at large - the teacher and the taught. ''Perfection is an illusion, we tell ourselves. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, we say. For each one of us, notions of beauty and perfection are defined. Whether we acknowledge it or not, these terms not just get defined but also redefined in our minds and psyche with time. 'Beauty' and 'perfection' seem at first to be words with positive connotations. And that they may be in an objective paradigm. Not so in the real world where definitions of beauty look for examples. These examples become standards of beauty. Having set a standard, the entire ...