ABSTRACT
Dance has had an ongoing, but somewhat uneasy, relationship with cultural studies. Dance studies could work constructively with cultural studies for further interpretation of 'the place of human beings within historical conjunctures by working in the areas of tension between representations of the body and, in the broadest sense, the live body in performance'. Unlike dance studies, the sociology of sport community has had close connection with cultural studies for more than three decades. Although their research, justifiably, has focused primarily on competitive sport, there have been recent calls to include more diverse bodily practices and representations, including dance, under the umbrella of physical cultural studies (PCS). While there is an existing corpus of work on the cultural study of dance—it appears in a wide range of journals located within a variety of academic disciplines—PCS can provide a meeting place where cultural research on everyday dance practices, collectively, can obtain more visibility.
