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2026

Agency and Autonomy: How are senior professional dancers forging a presence within an ageist dance culture.

Article in DIFFRACTIONS, Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture, special issue-2nd series, Feb: 2026.

doi:10.34632/Diffractions.2026.18131

 

2025

Still Moving: Conversations with Senior Professional Dancers Still Performing

Book Publisher: Intellect, Bristol/Chicago

https://www.intellectbooks.com/still-moving

 

Echoes of Age: Relational Dynamics in an Intergenerational World

Article in XIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, Lisbon Portugal, April 2025. https://echoesofage.wordpress.com/

 

How in the Middle of nowhere, a disused water tank stirred a performance

Article in Journal of Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, volume 11, nos. 1&2 August 2025

https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas_00070_1 

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/dmas_00070_1

2023

"Too old to dance! Says who? Senior Professional Dancers defying ageism".

In "'Dance On! Dancing through Life' edited by Stephanie Burridge & Charlotte Svendler Nielsen. Routledge, London & New York, 2023. chapter 2.1, p.48-59.

DOI:10.4324/9781003307624-12

2022

Terrain: A conversation in dancefilm between self and the Australian outback landscapeA., Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, Volume 9 Numbers 1 & 2, (2022).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas_00034_1

2022

Memory, Dance and Archive: How an Archived Performance Inspired the creation of the Dancefilm Does the Dancing have to Stop?  International Journal of Screendance, Vol. 13 (2022) Choreographing the Archive

DOI:https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v13i1.9123

2021

Six Illuminated Videos. Journal of Embodied Research, 4(2), 2 (31:25). Viora, A., Evangelista, A., York-Pryce, S., Vionnet, C., Dramé, A., Scally, W. D., & Agaronov, A. (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/dmas_00034_1

2020

Doing Arts Research in a Pandemic by Sonia York-Pryce for The Cultural Capital Exchange via Middlesex University, UK

Delving into Dance - Widening the Boundaries by Sonia York-Pryce
 

Critical Path  - Women's Work  - page 25 Musings on the older professional female dancer by Sonia York-Pryce
 

Journal of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities - A body of work  by Sonia York-Pryce

2019

Age on Stage - Nancy Westman

Exhibition to challenge invisibility cloak on ageing women in society - Jocelyn Garcia for The Canberra Times

2018

Sonia York Pryce: Ageism and the Mature Dancer   Podcast on The Balanced Ballerina with Georgia Canning  of GC Dance

 

Dancing on Air -  Does the Dancing have to Stop?  - Podcast, Dancing On Air presenter Annalouise Paul talks with Sonia York-Pryce talks about Dance and Ageism. 

 

2017

Den mogna dansarens värde - Valuing the Mature Dancer  Article in DANS TIDNINGEN:  Everything about dance in the Nordic region

(Link to translated article)

 

Age On Stage: Reflections from Polly Robertson - Theatre Bristol

 

2016

Sonia York Pryce: Ageism and the Mature Dancer   Interview  in Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research Bulletin

 

2015

Ballet in Small Spaces blog - Does the Dancing have to stop?

Ballet in Small Spaces blog - Mature dancing – in a pub theatre and on screen

Ballet in Small Spaces blog - Inappropriate Behaviour down under

 

 

Image: Sonia York-Pryce, filmed by Fabiola Carranza

Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath Scotland 2017

c 2026 Sonia York-Pryce

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