000			02085nam a22001577a 4500
999			_c526228 _d526228
008			240517b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aSatama, Suvi and Huopalainen, Astrid _952605
245			_aPursuing perfection through relationality: Studying the intersubjective dynamics of embodied agency in ballet
260			_aOrganization
300			_a31(3), Apr, 2024: p.523-546
520			_aThis study investigates the relational dynamics of embodied agency in the empirical context of ballet. Drawing on 15 ethnographic and 6 photo-elicitation interviews with professional dancers from the Finnish National Ballet, this study analyses the ways in which ballet dancers negotiate their agency in relation to other agents in their everyday work. We show how ballet dancers have to balance between satisfying the needs of the invisible gaze through different layers of relationality, on the one hand, and aiming to create room for their intimate, embodied experiences on the other. This study contributes to the existing knowledge on agency at the workplace by illustrating how it is grounded in the body in relational ways. By furthering the phenomenological understanding of subject formation as a form of intersubjectivity, this study shows how the working self is always relationally constructed, open to ambiguity and, sometimes, ‘caught between’ achieving agency and the objectifying scrutiny of the self and others between the visible onstage and hidden backstage. Consequently, this study offers in-depth insights into and parallels for intersubjective development in organisations. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13505084221124190
650			_aBallet, Embodied Agency, Relational Dynamics, Ethnographic Research, Photo-elicitation Interviews, Finnish National Ballet, Workplace Agency, Invisible Gaze, Relationality, Phenomenology, Intersubjectivity, Subject Formation, Objectifying Scrutiny, Onstage and Backstage, Organizational Development. _952606
773			_aOrganization
906			_aORGANISATIONAL STUDIES
942			_cAR