ABSTRACT
The cultivation of these administrative positions and their concomitant power and status for women is important and essential to the continuing development of dance in higher education. Two thousand years of neo-platonic philosophy compounded by Cartesianism and Christianity rendered this body sinful at worst, a hindrance at best, but in any event, certainly not a topic worthy of scholarly inquiry except to reveal its subordinate status to that which was worthy the mind or soul. Ironically, gender typing and negative attitudes towards bodiedness may have assisted the venturing of women into dance and its educational extensions and applications. The visibility of women in dance administrative positions within academic institutions has been longstanding. It should be no surprise, then, that when dance was admitted within the university at all, it was viewed as contributing to a general good rather than as a specific area of academic inquiry, and most often found itself housed in Physical Education.
