ABSTRACT

This article aims to reveal the challenges of working mothers in dance academia in respect to balancing of teaching, service, administration, and research demands and parenting of young teens. Through a conversation, the authors aim to find solidarity in our similar situations in different geographic locations by exchanging ideas regrading practicalities and demands of dance academia in relationship to parentings. United by similar experiences, we aim to share our everyday accounts of working in dance academia, the physical challenges of ageing, efforts to stay relevant and question the evaluation and promotion process in order to create more empathic working conditions for parents in academia. Spurred by similar challenges of seeking work/family balance and specific demands of dance academia, the authors seek to analyze and discuss the issues surrounding motherhood and academia and advocate for more emphatic working conditions and promotion processes. This collaborative auto-ethnographic research aims to disturb the rigid structures of academia in relation to parenthood, professional development, and quality of life, which serves as a method to excavate cultural experience of parents, specifically mothers, working in dance academia and question dynamics of faculty evaluation, promotion, and professional progress.

摘要

本文旨在揭示舞蹈学术界职业母亲在平衡教学、服务、管理和研究需求以及青少年养育方面面临的挑战。通过一次对话，作者旨在通过交换想法重新评估舞蹈学术界与育儿关系的实用性和需求，从而在我们不同地理位置的相似情况下找到团结。凭借相似的经历，我们旨在分享我们在舞蹈学术界工作的日常经历、衰老带来的身体挑战、保持相关性的努力以及对评估和晋升过程的质疑，以便为学术界的父母创造更多同理心的工作条件。受到寻求工作/家庭平衡的类似挑战和舞蹈学术界的特定需求的刺激，作者试图分析和讨论围绕母亲和学术界的问题，并倡导更重要的工作条件和晋升过程。这项合作的自动民族志研究旨在打破学术界在为人父母、职业发展和生活质量方面的僵化结构，作为一种方法来挖掘父母的文化经验，特别是母亲，在舞蹈学术界工作和问题动态教师评估、晋升和专业进步。