TY - JOUR
T1 - Niels Bukh's gymnastics school in Denmark, 1912–1933
T2 - Gymnastics, erotics, and male bonding
AU - Bonde, Hans
N1 - CURIS 2015 NEXS 132
PY - 2015/4/13
Y1 - 2015/4/13
N2 - Around 1916–1917 the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh (1880–1950) created, in an international sense, a revolutionary men's gymnastics, and in 1920 he established Denmark's and the world's first folk high school of physical education and sport. During the 1930s, Niels Bukh and his team of gymnasts first became a symbol for the dynamic Danish farming community, and then for the face of Denmark both at home and abroad. Bukh changed the stereotypical male expression of bodily dynamics, which in Danish rural gymnastics had been almost military. He made it legitimate for the young lads to get in close physical contact and to work in pairs in order to create beautiful masculine gymnastic choreographies. Within the aesthetic history of masculinity, it has often been male homosexual aestheticians, designers, musicians, dancers, and so on who have opened new avenues for the expression of male emotion, which was a trademark of Bukh's achievements, too.
AB - Around 1916–1917 the Danish gymnastics pedagogue Niels Bukh (1880–1950) created, in an international sense, a revolutionary men's gymnastics, and in 1920 he established Denmark's and the world's first folk high school of physical education and sport. During the 1930s, Niels Bukh and his team of gymnasts first became a symbol for the dynamic Danish farming community, and then for the face of Denmark both at home and abroad. Bukh changed the stereotypical male expression of bodily dynamics, which in Danish rural gymnastics had been almost military. He made it legitimate for the young lads to get in close physical contact and to work in pairs in order to create beautiful masculine gymnastic choreographies. Within the aesthetic history of masculinity, it has often been male homosexual aestheticians, designers, musicians, dancers, and so on who have opened new avenues for the expression of male emotion, which was a trademark of Bukh's achievements, too.
KW - aesthetics
KW - femininity
KW - gymnastics
KW - masculinity
KW - national identity
U2 - 10.1080/09523367.2015.1018027
DO - 10.1080/09523367.2015.1018027
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0952-3367
VL - 32
SP - 800
EP - 814
JO - International Journal of the History of Sport
JF - International Journal of the History of Sport
IS - 6
ER -