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- This paper explores how new materialist concepts can enhance our understanding of the experiences of older adults in a contemporary dance group, focusing on the relationship between movement and the older body.
- It argues that dance reveals the importance of spatial dimension to embodiment, showing how age influences our movements, thoughts, and interactions within different spaces.
- By integrating insights from materiality in gerontology, the study challenges Western cultural norms regarding aging and emphasizes the significance of the material world in shaping social experiences, particularly in an ageist society.
Article Abstract
Drawing on qualitative data from a study of older adults' participation in a contemporary dance group, this paper asks what can be gained from new materialist concepts of the older body, and how they can expand cultural gerontological thinking about embodiment. This paper examines the connections between the older body, movement, thoughts, words and spaces, arguing that dance demonstrates that there is a spatial dimension to embodiment. In drawing from models of materiality emerging in gerontology, this paper provides insights about the experience of age, questioning fundamental categorizations promoted in Western culture, and re-thinks agency in relation to the body and space. Emphasising the importance of the material world in the production of the social has important implications in terms of understanding the experience of ageing within an ageist society.
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