Cultural Research: Power

Power Relations in the Dance Classroom

I began researching power relations in the dance classroom as a Masters student and steadily presented and published scholarly papers throughout the mid to late 90s.

Publications and Presentations is an excerpt from my vita listing work that focuses on student experiences of abusive dance training.

The Conservatory as a Greedy Total Institution is a paper focused on testing a combination of Goffman's concept of the total institution and Coser's greedy institution in relationship to interviews with dancers regarding their conservatory training experience.

Alternative Forms of Data Presentation focuses on experiments with textual presentation and includes some of the texts created from interview data that offer alternative approaches to understanding.

Clyde Smith can be reached at: clydesmith(at)culturalresearch(dot)org