Dance has for a long time been regarded as a feminine domain, which has resulted in a pitiable number of dancing boys. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate what kind of attitude boys have to the dance subject. The premises of the study are gender theories where the hegemonic masculinity dominates and where the femininely coded appearances generates lower status, as well as the influence and previous knowledge the students of lower ages gets, and how it effects their choices. Qualitative interviews were made with eight high school students of male gender. Half of them studies dance at school, half of them does not. The results show that the image of dance as a femininely coded subject still remains. However, the boys' experience is that this is a common perception in society in general. Personally they are of a completely different opinion, and several of them present a positive attitude to dance. The experience of dance in elementary school that the respondents picture is based on folk dancing and couple dancing, which offers a quite narrow and old fashioned image of what dance truly is. Almost no one of them has experienced any modern dance, stage dance, free movement or creation of dance. The four students with dancing on their schedule in high school declares to have completely changed their perception of the subject, which shows the importance of the position and value the school provides dance education. My conclusion is that the gender barriers still hold peoples minds in a firm grip, but that the individual opinions contradicts that. Based on the answers of the respondents, I find that the school in general is the instance that has the highest prospect of influencing the students in the right course concerning dance. Since the dance education in school in many ways is inadequate, it signals that the subject has no legitimate value, which can be read from the answers of the respondents. The school has to take dance seriously, let educated dance teachers in and offer all students a qualified education. In that way dance will become a natural element and will receive a value for both girls and boys.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-28499 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Carlborg, Carin |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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