A Critical Dance Studies Examination of the Teaching Methodologies, Exercises, and Principles of Pilates
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
First Statement of Responsibility
Holmes, Sarah
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Shea Murphy, Jacqueline
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
UC Riverside
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Body granting the degree
UC Riverside
Text preceding or following the note
2013
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
This project examines the teaching methodologies, exercises, and Principles of the exercise practice commonly known as Pilates from a Critical Dance Studies perspective. Muscle memory, or embodied knowledge, is significant to dance scholarship in that embodied knowledge houses important unwritten cultural, social, and political histories. This project examines the racial, gendered, and class-based issues embedded in the exercises and Principles of Pilates, revealing the ways that the embodied discourses Pilates perpetuates are "white" in nature, and work to conceal and absent other cultural histories.