Strictly Mum Dancing: Pregnancy, motherhood and professional dance

Professional dance takes a mastery of physicality and form - on top of the business stresses and social demands. So what are dancers to make of motherhood and pregnancy, when their physical form and social availability now comes with dependents? 

Professor Angela Pickard of Canterbury Christchurch University discusses the challenges facing the embodiment and identity of dancers becoming mothers, and what the field can do to support dancers before, during and after pregnancy.

Read the original article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14647893.2023.2167973