Dancing female : lives and issues of women in contemporary dance

Why do women choreographers chose to create the dances they do in the manner they do?

How do women in dance work independently and organizationally?

How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance?

These are the questions this work seeks to address.In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, the contributors strike a balance between a theoretical sense of feminism and its practice in reality.

This book aims to present answers to questions about women, power and action.