I have been thinking a lot about my inquiry and area of my practice I want to look into further. Once I started to ask one question, another question arose which then in turn posed another question. Before I knew it, I realised there is a whole part of my practice that I hadn't delved into and wanted to know a lot more about.
I started to critically reflect on my dance career and the dance syllabus I have trained in and started to see it isn't as broadly accessible as I had thought.
Firstly I thought about my training and how there are exercises just for boys and exercises just for girls. This brought me to thinking about auditions and how parts are gender specific or height specific, even sometimes stating what colour hair you should have or your ethnicity. I then thought about shows I had performed in and why they have a certain number of male performers and female performers. I understand this may be due to partnering but why cant we have two female dance partners or two male dance partners.
This really had me thinking.....
