LGBT+ media representation on BBC's Strictly Come Dancing: Same-sex dance pairings as a means to promote inclusive participation in ballroom dancing?

LGBT 媒体在 BBC 的《舞动奇迹：同性舞蹈配对作为促进交际舞包容性参与的一种手段》中的代表？

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X007014/1
负责人：
Yen Nee Wong
金额：
$ 12.89万
依托单位：
University of Kent
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX007014%2F1
关键词：
LGBT+media representation BBC Strictly

项目摘要

What people see on television, film and in the news media can have significant impact on how they understand the world, interact and empathise with others in their everyday lives. In sports and leisure entertainment, media representations can influence how people treat LGBT+ individuals and their corresponding access to leisure opportunities. In 2021, we witnessed a huge step forward for the UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance community when Strictly Come Dancing (SCD) changed its 18-year long traditional format to include a male-male professional/amateur dance partnership into its line-up, following its first female-female coupling in 2020. SCD's shift was accompanied by increased media representations of LGBT+ lives and relationships through gay-identifying dancers and portrayals of the UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance culture. My main aim in this Fellowship is to leverage this active media discourse inspired by SCD to maximise impact and dissemination of my PhD research on UK's LGBT+ ballroom dance culture, so as to increase the visibility and acceptance of LGBT+ dancers in partner dancing.Despite growing media visibility of same-sex dancing such as in SCD's 2021 finale, and the possibilities it holds for deconstructing dominant gender discourse in mainstream dancing, the subject remains understudied. My PhD is a pioneering work examining LGBT+ dancers' lived experiences of competitive same-sex ballroom dancing through a queer feminist lens. The novelty of my PhD lies in my visual methodology involving photo-elicitation with visual artefacts (Tillmann-Healy, 2001; Boylorn, 2008) and auto-ethnography as a photographer and dancer, to propose a sociological framework for the examination of dancing bodies as material and discursive, relational and resistive. I show that we cannot envision new possibilities for promoting inclusive dance expressions through the same heteronormative patterns, proposing an analytical framework which recognises diversity in transgressive practices across the categories of sex, gender and sexuality. In this Fellowship, I aim to maximise dissemination by leveraging the creative potentials of my visual methodology in my publications and activities, using photography to stimulate new ways of perceiving and articulating gendered and sexual bodies within and beyond academia.I aim to achieve maximum impact to bring about visible socio-cultural shifts in attitudes towards LGBT+ dancers by broadening my audience base beyond academia. I draw on multiple publication mediums and on teaching to reach out to diverse audience. My journal article is targeted at academics to inspire new lines of inquiry for dance studies which celebrates diversity and differences. I will teach 2 hours per week in the autumn to widen my outreach in academia. Beyond academia, I will adapt a monograph from my PhD, present at two conferences and create a website to bring issues of gender and sexuality to the forefront of ballroom dance education and draw attention to alternative dance practices. I will achieve community impact through hosting a photography exhibition with dance workshop in the University of Kent, titled "Reimagining Ballroom Dancing", where I share insights on the UK's LGBT+ dance culture and create opportunities beyond London for inclusive participation in ballroom dancing.I aim to effectively draw on SCD to engage with non-academics, by incorporating up-to-date developments of SCD into my PhD work. I will carry out further limited research (16.7% of the programme) to explore how shifts in SCD's media representation of same-sex dancers relates to the lived experiences of LGBT+ dancers examined in my PhD. This work extends impact by informing LGBT+ media representations in British reality TV programmes such as Dancing with the Stars and Dancing on Ice. I sustain impact achieved in this Fellowship through an ESRC New Investigator Grant to expand my focus to include differently-abled and gender non-conforming dancers.

人们在电视、电影和新闻媒体上看到的内容会对他们在日常生活中理解世界、与他人互动和同情的方式产生重大影响。在体育和休闲娱乐领域，媒体报道可以影响人们对待 LGBT+ 个体的方式以及他们相应的休闲机会。 2021 年，我们见证了英国 LGBT+ 交谊舞社区向前迈出的一大步，舞蹈奇迹 (SCD) 改变了其长达 18 年的传统形式，将男性与男性专业/业余舞蹈伙伴关系纳入其阵容，继2020 年首次女性与女性的结合。SCD 的转变伴随着媒体对 LGBT+ 生活和关系的更多报道，通过识别同性恋的舞者和英国的描绘LGBT+ 交谊舞文化。我获得该奖学金的主要目的是利用受 SCD 启发的活跃媒体话语，最大限度地影响和传播我对英国 LGBT+ 国标舞文化的博士研究，从而提高 LGBT+ 舞者在舞伴舞中的知名度和接受度。尽管媒体不断增长尽管同性舞蹈（例如 SCD 2021 年大结局中的同性舞蹈）的可见性，以及它在解构主流舞蹈中主导性别话语方面所具有的可能性，但这一主题仍待研究。我的博士学位是一项开创性的工作，通过酷儿女权主义的视角来研究 LGBT+ 舞者在竞争性同性交谊舞中的生活经历。我的博士学位的新颖之处在于我的视觉方法，涉及视觉人工制品的照片启发（Tillmann-Healy，2001；Boylorn，2008）和作为摄影师和舞蹈家的自我民族志，提出一个社会学框架来检查舞蹈身体物质性和话语性、关系性和抵抗性。我表明，我们无法设想通过相同的异性恋模式促进包容性舞蹈表达的新可能性，提出一个分析框架，承认跨性别、社会性别和性行为类别的越轨实践的多样性。在这个奖学金中，我的目标是通过在出版物和活动中利用我的视觉方法的创造性潜力，利用摄影来激发学术界内外感知和阐明性别和性身体的新方式，从而最大限度地传播。我的目标是对通过扩大学术界以外的受众群体，对 LGBT+ 舞者的态度带来明显的社会文化转变。我利用多种出版媒体和教学来接触不同的受众。我的期刊文章面向学者，旨在激发舞蹈研究的新探究方向，颂扬多样性和差异性。秋季我将每周教两个小时，以扩大我在学术界的影响力。除了学术界之外，我还将改编我的博士论文，出席两次会议，并创建一个网站，将性别和性问题带到交谊舞教育的前沿，并引起人们对另类舞蹈实践的关注。我将通过在肯特大学举办名为“重新想象国标舞”的舞蹈研讨会摄影展来实现社区影响，在展览中我分享对英国 LGBT+ 舞蹈文化的见解，并为伦敦以外地区包容性参与国标舞创造机会。通过将 SCD 的最新发展纳入我的博士工作，有效利用 SCD 与非学术界人士进行接触。我将进行进一步的有限研究（占该项目的 16.7%），以探索 SCD 媒体对同性舞者的描述的转变如何与我在博士学位中研究的 LGBT+ 舞者的生活经历相关。这项工作通过在《与星共舞》和《冰上之舞》等英国真人秀电视节目中宣传 LGBT+ 媒体的报道，扩大了影响力。我通过 ESRC 新研究员补助金维持在该奖学金中所取得的影响，以将我的关注范围扩大到包括能力不同和性别不合格的舞者。