Editorial Agon: A Short History of Contest in Sport
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Abstract
Sometime ago Olav Ballisager and I were sharing memories about our involvement in institutionalizing a field of sport studies and research in the 80’s in Denmark. One event turned out to be a very remarkable and promising one. It took place in July in 1980 at Gerlev folk high school of sport. More than 200 persons were gathered to rediscover their bodies in modern dance together with outstanding American instructors like Judith Chaffe, Adrienne Hawkins and Betty Toman. Occasionally, there were also opportunities for learning about body and movement in cultural, philosophical and educational perspectives with excellent American researchers like John W. Loy, Susan Birrell, the English-born Alan G. Ingham, Seymour Kleinman and the Australian-born John Cheffers.