Becomings

This book explores postmodern choreographic engagements of pregnant bodies in the US over the last 70 years.

Johanna Kirk, PhD is a Lecturer in World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She is a choreographer, writer, and movement educator with undergraduate and graduate degrees in Dance. She has designed and taught courses in Experiential Anatomy, Yoga and Dance to students of a wide variety of ages and backgrounds on three continents.

Introduction 1 Pregnant body as choreographic sight/site 2 Pregnant body as creative spacetime Part one: Worlding a lived score Part two: Queer orientations toward pregnancy, choreographing pure becoming 3 Choreographies of feminist maternal health/care Conclusions and connections