For many dancers, body image — the way a person thinks about their own body — is highly important. In dance, the body is a vessel used for self-expression — and the focus of those watching the ...

Describing her "way of doing things," American modern dancer Martha Graham (1894-1991) wrote: “It is a freedom of the body and a love of the body." “Love” may not be the first word that comes to mind ...

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male ...