![]() ![]() ![]() Secondly, I examine the emergence of Zumba Fitness as a contemporary Dionysian rite, mediated by digital culture, capitalism and globalisation, through my insights from the ZIN Academy and Believe party (London, July 2015) and work as a Zumba Fitness instructor. I firstly conceptualise Zorbitality, via Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of ‘flow’ and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘rhizome’. In response, this article proposes an emergent concept for reconfiguring female (a)sexualities through collective ecstatic motion - Zorbitality - drawing on the global Latin dance fitness phenomenon, Zumba Fitness, as a central example. With the rise of a postfeminist culture, the lived experiences of asexual-identified women are in danger of being lost within static narratives of frigidity and singledom. This definition is problematic, as it assumes that everybody is sexual and that sexuality is immutable. In the 21st century, asexuality has become synonymous with sexual orientation, being described as a 'lack' of sexual attraction. ![]()
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