Body Trouble: Sexual Harassment and Worker Abuse in Musical Theater Dance Employment

Autor/in	Kaufman, Eric
Titel	Body Trouble: Sexual Harassment and Worker Abuse in Musical Theater Dance Employment
Quelle	In: Research in Dance Education, 20 (2019) 1, S.85-94 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1464-7893
DOI	10.1080/14647893.2019.1594917
Schlagwörter	Sexual Harassment; Theater Arts; Drama; Dance; Music; Work Environment; Sexuality; Human Body + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexuelle Belästigung; Theaterwissenschaft; Schauspiel; Tanz; Musik; Arbeitsmilieu; Sexualität; Menschlicher Körper
Abstract	Beginning in the 1980s, and throughout years of employment on Broadway and beyond, I was an unwitting participant-observer to scenes of sexual harassment in musical theater dance workplaces. I experienced being a target of sexual harassment, not as trauma, but as an uncomfortable and accepted aspect of the employment landscape. The hypersexualized, bodily-aware, and emotional and physical intimacy of the work and work settings of theatrical dancers invite sexual banter and play that easily crosses the boundary between good-natured repartee and harassment. The uncertainty of dancers securing and maintaining work is amplified by employers' and unions' inability to guarantee employment. These aspects of the trade, along with extremely hierarchic employment power structures, encourage varieties of exploitation additional to all the usual ways in which workers are regularly abused in our market-driven systems of economy and employment. Taking an autoethnographic approach, along with contextualizing current literature on sexual harassment, this exploration addresses fundamental issues relevant to the present national conversation in the United States. Investigation into harassment in the explicitly sexually-charged environment of the theatrical dance workplace reveals the contradictions inherent to the hierarchies of worker abuse implicit in the current US cultural assessment of sexual harassment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01