‘Body Politics’ and negotiating gender violence and child sexuality through Flatfoot Dance Company’s youth arts intervention programmes in KwaZulu-Natal – a case study (2003–2013)

This perspective offers a feminist engagement with the ‘dancing body’ and the languages which it articulates and which it inscribes, in order to examine how social, cultural and political discourse and ideology permeate the use and reading of this body. The perspective asks that in stepping into the difficult terrain of looking at childhood sexuality and how it is constructed, normalised, challenged, gendered and expressed, there is the need to include the arena of cultural practice as a terrain that teaches, negotiates and enacts sexuality.