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Dancing Boys
High School Males in Dance

Zihao Li (Author)

9781442626324

Paperback / softback, published 11 October 2016

192 pages, 8 figures
22.9 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm, 0.31 kg

The challenges that young women go through in order to be successful in the world of dance are well known. However, little is known about the experiences of young men who choose to take dance classes in non-professional settings.

Dancing Boys is one of the first scholarly works to demystify the largely unknown challenges of adolescent males in dance. Through an ethnographic study of sixty-two adolescent male students, Zihao Li captures the authentic stories and experiences of boys participating in dance classes in a public high school in Toronto. Accompanied by the boys’ artwork and photographs and supported by a documentary-style video, the study explores their motivations for dancing, their reflections on masculinity and gender, and the internal and external factors that impact their decisions to continue to dance professionally or in informal settings. With the author’s reflections on his own journey as a professional dancer woven throughout, Dancing Boys will spark discussion on how and why educators can engage adolescent males in dance.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter one: I am a Dancer

Chapter two: Boys in Dance

Chapter three: Where Are the Dancing Boys?

Chapter four: The Voices of the Dancing Boys

Chapter five: Transformation

Chapter six: Invisible Barriers

Chapter seven: Dance Experience & Class

Chapter eight: Show Time

Chapter nine: Dancing Through Our Lives

Chapter ten: Video Documentary on Adolescent Male Dance Students

References

Endnotes

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