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Still Moving

Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing

Distributed for Intellect Ltd

Still Moving

Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing

A candid look at how evergreen dancers sustain their craft, navigate aging, and challenge the dance world’s obsession with youth.

What does it mean to keep dancing against the tide of ageism? Still Moving offers an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of senior professional dancers, artists who continue to perform and create, defying expectations well beyond the conventional limits of a dancer’s career. Through in-depth conversations with twenty performers ranging from 41 to 109 years old, Sonia York-Pryce reveals stories of resilience, adaptation, and unwavering passion for movement.

These dancers, hailing from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, challenge ingrained biases in the dance industry while embodying the limitless potential of an aging body. Their experiences inspire not only younger dancers wondering about longevity in their careers but also anyone invested in the intersections of creativity, aging, and well-being.

Still Moving is not simply a book about dance; it engages in a broader cultural dialogue about ageism and the evolving nature of artistic expression. For dancers, educators, researchers, and those in fields such as somatic practices, gerontology, and social sciences, this book champions a future where dance is not bound by age but enriched by experience.

245 pages | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2025

Art: Art--General Studies


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Table of Contents

Foreword: Jirí Kylián

Acknowledgments

List of Plates

List of abbreviations

Epigraph

 

Introduction: Sonia York-Pryce.

Chapter 1: Defying Gravity: Louise Lecavalier, Charlotta Öfverholm.

Chapter 2: Nederlands Dans Theater 3 (NDT3): Sabine Kupferberg, Gérard Lemaître.

Chapter 3: The Australian Dance Artists. Anca Frankenhaeuser, Patrick Harding-Irmer, Susan Barling, Ross Philip.

Chapter 4: Pat Catterson, Siv Anders.

Chapter 5: Tomo Sone, Susan Sentler.

Chapter 6: The Mavericks, Wendy Houstoun, Liz Aggiss.

Chapter 7: Mark Edward, Brian Lucas.

Chapter 8: The Tully Collective: Jennifer Jackson, Susie Crow, Ann Dickie, Nicholas Minns.

Chapter 9: Rakini Devi, Vicki Van Hout.

Chapter 10: Dance Elders Elizabeth Cameron Dalman, Eileen Kramer.

Chapter 11: Dance On Ensemble: Madeline Ritter, Ty Boomershine, Amancio Gonzalez.

Conclusion: Where we are now, Sonia York-Pryce.

 

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

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