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You Tube, Beyonceworld, and Second Life: Do Girls Still “Go to Ballet”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Virginia Taylor
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Abstract

This paper presents updates from my ongoing ethnographic study into the lived experience and worldviews of eight- to eleven-year-old girls in the United Kindom and responds to my 1999 Selma Jeanne Cohen award-winning paper, “Respect, Antipathy, and Tenderness: Why Do Girls ‘Go to Ballet’?” History has moved very fast: technologies have transformed the daily lived experience of children, now supersaturated with images and with access to communities far beyond their physical and cultural environment. The paper reports on the girls' assessment of their experience and considers whether the girls' bodies are being re-choreographed by an unprecedented excess of images of bodies and ways of moving, very different from and potentially more powerful than those they encounter in their own cultural setting.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 40 , supplement S1: Dance Studies and Global Feminisms , 2008 , pp. 214 - 224
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008

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