Loukkaantuminen muutoksen mahdollisuutena: holistinen näkökulma tanssin ammattilaisen loukkaantumiskokemukseen

This article focuses on describing the experience of a physical injury from a holistic concept. Based on the theme interviews of the three dancer-dance teachers, the data suggests that an injury experience and the related recovery process change the individual meaning-relationships profoundly. For example, an injured dance professional is able to question the body ideals and the methods of dance training that focus merely on the object body. In addition, dance training that endangers health, as well as model-based teaching are perceived critically. Dance professional who has overcome injury heightens not only the awareness of one’s body, but also outlines respect and responsibility towards one’s self. The injury also invokes critical examination of the underlying circumstances behind the injury event to enable self-development and change of perspective in relation to working in the field of dance. Acceptance of the injury enables to perceive the future; it clarifies social responsibility and values, and facilitates pedagogical perspectives that are based on perceiving one’s body as a subject, as well as respecting the body of others.