ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at bodily movement practice as cultural practice and uses the world of dance as a lens for critical reflection and as a source for new theory to be applied on organisational life and to develop research on gender in management. The discussion of movement in culture and in organisations is subsumed under the header of 'kinaesthetic politics'. There are two significant categories of experience that inevitable affect an individual's subjective perception of cultural reality: age and gender. Both aspects are reflected in social human movement. The body in modern dance in particular most clearly reflects contemporary body concepts and also functions as a medium to express, via insecure gestures, falling and contortions, experiences individuals make in today's times. Dancing in ballet has by transdisciplinary approaches been identified as a "key performer in the construction and circulation of social hegemonies". Contemporary dance builds on many of these techniques still taught today and reflects post-structuralist thought and diversity.
