DANCE MUMS

Jo Pollitt finds out how being a mother affects your identity as a dancer.

DANCING is an embodied art form like none other; the dancer can neither put down his or her instrument nor step away from it to recalibrate. The tools remain on, and of, the body. One and the same. Motherhood also is a deeply embodied experience. Being both mother and dancer is a double physicality and the impact of this on dance practice is significant. The amount of physical change after pregnancy and birth varies widely from dancer to dancer but the challenge and driver shared by all is time. From my own experience and from conversations with innumerable mother-dancers it seems the expanding and heightening of creative range is implicit in the navigation of motherhood and professional dance practice. Creativity and motherhood are deeply connected, with each fuel for the…

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Dance Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, April/May 2017

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