Claire Farmer is a senior lecturer in Dance Science at Middlesex University, UK.Helen Kindred is a senior lecturer in Dance at Middlesex University, UK.

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• IntroductionClaire Farmer and Helen KindredPART I: Bodily knowledge1. Growing up in dance: Experiencing the pubertal transition in leotard and tightsSiobhan Mitchell2. Female dancer hormone healthNicky Keay3. Female dancers: food, nutrients and body compositionJasmine Challis4. Ballet culture and body image in recreational dance trainingRebekah Wall5. A somatic approach to audiencingCarolina Bergonzoni6. Embodied experience of bodies with breastsAmelia Millward and James BrounerPART II: Moving through change7. Strength training considerations for female dancersClaire Farmer8. Pelvic floor considerations for female dancers through the lifespanBrooke Winder9. Improvising with the pain(s) of endometriosisKate March10. The pregnant dancerChloe Hillyar11. Fascia illuminatedMay Kesler12. FEMALEtracesHelen Kindred and Sandra SokThe embodied archive of the selfCelia Shaw MorrisPART III: Taking up space13. Sustaining a dance career as a parentLucy McCrudden and Angela Pickard14. Dancer (noun)—mother, daughter, sister, colleague, partner, warrior, sorceress, friendErica Stanton15. Are you a leader? The L word that women in dance fearAvatâra Ayuso 16. Coming out is a protest: A score for ritual queer emergenceKars Dodds17. Geometry of gender: Analysing the anatomical specifications of a Bharatanatyam dancerShreya Srivastava and Shilpa DarivemulaPART IV: Embodied wisdom18. Foregrounding (the) self in dance practiceGemma Harman and Jayne McKee19. There’s wisdom in them bones—Moving beyond the shapeJanine Cappello20. The trees, my pelvis and dancing through a lifeCeleste Nazeli Snowber21. Dancing to liveStella Eldon22. Body scapes: Celebrating seasonality of well‑being in somatic dialoguing with the natural worldAnna Dako in collaboration with Martina PollerosSCORE—FEMALEtraces Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok

Claire Farmer is a senior lecturer in Dance Science at Middlesex University, UK.Helen Kindred is a senior lecturer in Dance at Middlesex University, UK.

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• IntroductionClaire Farmer and Helen KindredPART I: Bodily knowledge1. Growing up in dance: Experiencing the pubertal transition in leotard and tightsSiobhan Mitchell2. Female dancer hormone healthNicky Keay3. Female dancers: food, nutrients and body compositionJasmine Challis4. Ballet culture and body image in recreational dance trainingRebekah Wall5. A somatic approach to audiencingCarolina Bergonzoni6. Embodied experience of bodies with breastsAmelia Millward and James BrounerPART II: Moving through change7. Strength training considerations for female dancersClaire Farmer8. Pelvic floor considerations for female dancers through the lifespanBrooke Winder9. Improvising with the pain(s) of endometriosisKate March10. The pregnant dancerChloe Hillyar11. Fascia illuminatedMay Kesler12. FEMALEtracesHelen Kindred and Sandra SokThe embodied archive of the selfCelia Shaw MorrisPART III: Taking up space13. Sustaining a dance career as a parentLucy McCrudden and Angela Pickard14. Dancer (noun)—mother, daughter, sister, colleague, partner, warrior, sorceress, friendErica Stanton15. Are you a leader? The L word that women in dance fearAvatâra Ayuso 16. Coming out is a protest: A score for ritual queer emergenceKars Dodds17. Geometry of gender: Analysing the anatomical specifications of a Bharatanatyam dancerShreya Srivastava and Shilpa DarivemulaPART IV: Embodied wisdom18. Foregrounding (the) self in dance practiceGemma Harman and Jayne McKee19. There’s wisdom in them bones—Moving beyond the shapeJanine Cappello20. The trees, my pelvis and dancing through a lifeCeleste Nazeli Snowber21. Dancing to liveStella Eldon22. Body scapes: Celebrating seasonality of well‑being in somatic dialoguing with the natural worldAnna Dako in collaboration with Martina PollerosSCORE—FEMALEtraces Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok

Claire Farmer is a senior lecturer in Dance Science at Middlesex University, UK.Helen Kindred is a senior lecturer in Dance at Middlesex University, UK.

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• IntroductionClaire Farmer and Helen KindredPART I: Bodily knowledge1. Growing up in dance: Experiencing the pubertal transition in leotard and tightsSiobhan Mitchell2. Female dancer hormone healthNicky Keay3. Female dancers: food, nutrients and body compositionJasmine Challis4. Ballet culture and body image in recreational dance trainingRebekah Wall5. A somatic approach to audiencingCarolina Bergonzoni6. Embodied experience of bodies with breastsAmelia Millward and James BrounerPART II: Moving through change7. Strength training considerations for female dancersClaire Farmer8. Pelvic floor considerations for female dancers through the lifespanBrooke Winder9. Improvising with the pain(s) of endometriosisKate March10. The pregnant dancerChloe Hillyar11. Fascia illuminatedMay Kesler12. FEMALEtracesHelen Kindred and Sandra SokThe embodied archive of the selfCelia Shaw MorrisPART III: Taking up space13. Sustaining a dance career as a parentLucy McCrudden and Angela Pickard14. Dancer (noun)—mother, daughter, sister, colleague, partner, warrior, sorceress, friendErica Stanton15. Are you a leader? The L word that women in dance fearAvatâra Ayuso 16. Coming out is a protest: A score for ritual queer emergenceKars Dodds17. Geometry of gender: Analysing the anatomical specifications of a Bharatanatyam dancerShreya Srivastava and Shilpa DarivemulaPART IV: Embodied wisdom18. Foregrounding (the) self in dance practiceGemma Harman and Jayne McKee19. There’s wisdom in them bones—Moving beyond the shapeJanine Cappello20. The trees, my pelvis and dancing through a lifeCeleste Nazeli Snowber21. Dancing to liveStella Eldon22. Body scapes: Celebrating seasonality of well‑being in somatic dialoguing with the natural worldAnna Dako in collaboration with Martina PollerosSCORE—FEMALEtraces Helen Kindred and Sandra Sok