ABSTRACT

Many college campuses across the United States are home to numerous extracurricular dance clubs that embrace a broad range of dance styles and cultural contexts that welcome all students to engage with dance. These extracurricular clubs often exist in stark contrast to dance major programs in the US which have conventionally centred embodied Whiteness in their curricular structure and goals resulting in the exclusion of atypically trained dancing bodies from entering dance major programs. In this article we ask, where did these dancing bodies go? This research seeks to locate the dancing bodies that either by departments’ refusal to admit, or by choice, dance on university campuses outside the dance department. Using Critical Race Theory in relation to where, how, why, and what dance occurs across campus, this article asks dance educators to carefully consider if we are gatekeepers or gateway-makers when it comes to providing students access to professional aspirations via a college degree.

摘要

美国的许多大学校园都设有众多课外舞蹈俱乐部，这些俱乐部涵盖广泛的舞蹈风格和文化背景，欢迎所有学生参与舞蹈。这些课外俱乐部通常与美国的舞蹈专业课程形成鲜明对比，美国的舞蹈专业课程传统上以白人为中心的课程结构和目标，导致非典型训练的舞蹈团体被排除在舞蹈专业课程之外。在这篇文章中我们要问，这些跳舞的身体去了哪里？这项研究旨在找出那些被院系拒绝承认或自愿在舞蹈系以外的大学校园里跳舞的舞蹈团体。使用批判种族理论来了解校园内舞蹈的地点、方式、原因和内容，