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  • Feeling Lovely: An Examination of the Value of Beauty for People Dancing with Parkinson's

  • Sara Houston
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 47 / Issue 1 / April 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 May 2015, pp. 27-43
    Print publication:
    April 2015

  • Against the backdrop of a four-year study into dance for people with Parkinson's, I examine one woman's claim that dancing makes her feel beautiful, and, as such, is fundamental to her well-being. I debate the challenge that this claim poses to those who argue that beauty in dance is at best unimportant, at worst disenfranchising. In debating this challenge, I create a link between aesthetics and health through a reformulation of the value of beauty in the context of chronic illness and well-being. This link then allows me to discuss how feeling lovely could become relevant and meaningful within the context of participating in dance.