TY - JOUR
T1 - I can’t. I have dance
T2 - dance competition culture as serious leisure and pre-professional training
AU - Schupp, Karen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/3
Y1 - 2020/7/3
N2 - This article provides an introductory contextualization to dance competition culture’s evolution since the early 1980s in relationship to serious leisure. Dance competition culture (which includes the for-profit regional and national competition events focused on jazz, contemporary or lyrical dance, hip hop, tap, and ballet and the dance studios that train dancers for these events) is a significant site for dance training in the United States. Using a physical cultural studies lens in relation to the conceptualization of serious leisure, the article suggests that dance competition culture is shifting towards pre-professional dance training thereby changing dance competition culture from a serious leisure pursuit into vocational training.
AB - This article provides an introductory contextualization to dance competition culture’s evolution since the early 1980s in relationship to serious leisure. Dance competition culture (which includes the for-profit regional and national competition events focused on jazz, contemporary or lyrical dance, hip hop, tap, and ballet and the dance studios that train dancers for these events) is a significant site for dance training in the United States. Using a physical cultural studies lens in relation to the conceptualization of serious leisure, the article suggests that dance competition culture is shifting towards pre-professional dance training thereby changing dance competition culture from a serious leisure pursuit into vocational training.
KW - commercial dance
KW - Dance competition culture
KW - dance education
KW - physical cultural studies
KW - serious leisure
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U2 - 10.1080/02614367.2019.1643902
DO - 10.1080/02614367.2019.1643902
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088836457
SN - 0261-4367
VL - 39
SP - 479
EP - 492
JO - Leisure Studies
JF - Leisure Studies
IS - 4
ER -