Ali Duffy, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Director of Dance at Texas Tech University (USA), Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre, and co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network. She is mama to sweet Noah.Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the MFA Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Tamar Neumann is Instructor in English at Tarrant County College, USA. Her research focuses on the performances of open adoption, and how those performances highlight the social construction of families. Her creative work highlights the stories of those who live in open adoptions.

• IntroductionSection 1Pandemic Matrescence: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Birth, and Postpartum ExperiencesChapter 1. Performance + pedagogy + pregnancy: a COVID-19 pandemic experienceChapter 2. Representations of science related to reproduction on stageChapter 3. dear emiChapter 4. Storytelling, community, and the postpartum experience during COVID-19: affirming the humanity of mothers through trauma-informed facilitationChapter 5. My blessingway Project: a story of birthing a mother and (her child) hopeChapter 6. Breastfeeding storiesChapter 7. A choreographic motherhood: the (re)birth of self in creative process and practiceSection 2In the Weeds: A Mother’s Work is Never Done. Mothering Children, Teenagers, and Adults through a Pandemic and Beyond Chapter 8. My mom worked during the entire pandemic and all I got was this stupid quarantineChapter 9. Space for our childrenChapter 10. Artistry and authorityChapter 11. Dance as legacy: passing on an artistic practice to my daughtersChapter 12. Pregnancy and motherhood in dance: a UK and USA comparisonChapter 13. Digital media’s bearing on maternal well-being: an ethnographic case studyChapter 14. Intimacy direction and mothers: Is the light at the end of the tunnel still there?Section 3Performances of motherhood: art making, ideation, processes, outcomes, and participation through the lens of mothering during the COVID-19 pandemicChapter 15. Pandemic Mama: devised performance for community impactChapter 16. Pivots and pianos: choreographing through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 5th graderChapter 17. Performing a “real” family: finalizing an adoption amid a pandemicChapter 18. Venus in quarantineChapter 19. BIRTH!: a dance documentary exploring autonomy, trauma, and triumphChapter 20. Famalao’an/Babae: socially engaged art, feminist pedagogy, and shifting women’s storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino students through zine-making in GuåhanChapter 21. “Our children”: Sarah Sudhoff’s multidisciplinary artivism in motherhoodChapter 22. Mama's move: embodied storytellingChapter 23. Life as a mother artist: loving and grieving through danceConclusion

Ali Duffy, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Director of Dance at Texas Tech University (USA), Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre, and co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network. She is mama to sweet Noah.Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the MFA Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Tamar Neumann is Instructor in English at Tarrant County College, USA. Her research focuses on the performances of open adoption, and how those performances highlight the social construction of families. Her creative work highlights the stories of those who live in open adoptions.

• IntroductionSection 1Pandemic Matrescence: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Birth, and Postpartum ExperiencesChapter 1. Performance + pedagogy + pregnancy: a COVID-19 pandemic experienceChapter 2. Representations of science related to reproduction on stageChapter 3. dear emiChapter 4. Storytelling, community, and the postpartum experience during COVID-19: affirming the humanity of mothers through trauma-informed facilitationChapter 5. My blessingway Project: a story of birthing a mother and (her child) hopeChapter 6. Breastfeeding storiesChapter 7. A choreographic motherhood: the (re)birth of self in creative process and practiceSection 2In the Weeds: A Mother’s Work is Never Done. Mothering Children, Teenagers, and Adults through a Pandemic and Beyond Chapter 8. My mom worked during the entire pandemic and all I got was this stupid quarantineChapter 9. Space for our childrenChapter 10. Artistry and authorityChapter 11. Dance as legacy: passing on an artistic practice to my daughtersChapter 12. Pregnancy and motherhood in dance: a UK and USA comparisonChapter 13. Digital media’s bearing on maternal well-being: an ethnographic case studyChapter 14. Intimacy direction and mothers: Is the light at the end of the tunnel still there?Section 3Performances of motherhood: art making, ideation, processes, outcomes, and participation through the lens of mothering during the COVID-19 pandemicChapter 15. Pandemic Mama: devised performance for community impactChapter 16. Pivots and pianos: choreographing through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 5th graderChapter 17. Performing a “real” family: finalizing an adoption amid a pandemicChapter 18. Venus in quarantineChapter 19. BIRTH!: a dance documentary exploring autonomy, trauma, and triumphChapter 20. Famalao’an/Babae: socially engaged art, feminist pedagogy, and shifting women’s storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino students through zine-making in GuåhanChapter 21. “Our children”: Sarah Sudhoff’s multidisciplinary artivism in motherhoodChapter 22. Mama's move: embodied storytellingChapter 23. Life as a mother artist: loving and grieving through danceConclusion

Ali Duffy, PhD, is Professor and Graduate Director of Dance at Texas Tech University (USA), Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre, and co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network. She is mama to sweet Noah.Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the MFA Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.Tamar Neumann is Instructor in English at Tarrant County College, USA. Her research focuses on the performances of open adoption, and how those performances highlight the social construction of families. Her creative work highlights the stories of those who live in open adoptions.

• IntroductionSection 1Pandemic Matrescence: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Birth, and Postpartum ExperiencesChapter 1. Performance + pedagogy + pregnancy: a COVID-19 pandemic experienceChapter 2. Representations of science related to reproduction on stageChapter 3. dear emiChapter 4. Storytelling, community, and the postpartum experience during COVID-19: affirming the humanity of mothers through trauma-informed facilitationChapter 5. My blessingway Project: a story of birthing a mother and (her child) hopeChapter 6. Breastfeeding storiesChapter 7. A choreographic motherhood: the (re)birth of self in creative process and practiceSection 2In the Weeds: A Mother’s Work is Never Done. Mothering Children, Teenagers, and Adults through a Pandemic and Beyond Chapter 8. My mom worked during the entire pandemic and all I got was this stupid quarantineChapter 9. Space for our childrenChapter 10. Artistry and authorityChapter 11. Dance as legacy: passing on an artistic practice to my daughtersChapter 12. Pregnancy and motherhood in dance: a UK and USA comparisonChapter 13. Digital media’s bearing on maternal well-being: an ethnographic case studyChapter 14. Intimacy direction and mothers: Is the light at the end of the tunnel still there?Section 3Performances of motherhood: art making, ideation, processes, outcomes, and participation through the lens of mothering during the COVID-19 pandemicChapter 15. Pandemic Mama: devised performance for community impactChapter 16. Pivots and pianos: choreographing through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 5th graderChapter 17. Performing a “real” family: finalizing an adoption amid a pandemicChapter 18. Venus in quarantineChapter 19. BIRTH!: a dance documentary exploring autonomy, trauma, and triumphChapter 20. Famalao’an/Babae: socially engaged art, feminist pedagogy, and shifting women’s storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino students through zine-making in GuåhanChapter 21. “Our children”: Sarah Sudhoff’s multidisciplinary artivism in motherhoodChapter 22. Mama's move: embodied storytellingChapter 23. Life as a mother artist: loving and grieving through danceConclusion