Browsing by Subject "Dance"
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A Transnational Bohemia: Dandyism and the Dance in the Futurist Art of Gino Severini, 1909-1914
(2011)ABSTRACTMy dissertation studies the intersection of popular entertainment and the visual arts in Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century and the dialogue that formed between this subculture and the avant-garde ... -
Black Girl Ecologies: Manifesting Fabulations and Embodying Otherwise Possibilities of Southern Black Femme
(2021)This thesis research presents a choreographic enquiry into ways Black Americans, specifically Black femme inhabit their bodies and their entanglements to the surrounding environment. It asks the question of how Black girls ... -
Body Image, Ballet Pedagogy, & Flow/Yu: Pedagogical Recommendations to Mitigate Self-Objectification & Choreographic Processes to Move Towards Embodied States of Flow & Yu
(2021)Objectification theory, as delineated by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, posits that women are trained to view themselves as visual objects for consumption. The related term, self-objectification, describes ... -
Building a Natya Shastra: Individual Voices in an Evolving Public Memory
(2011)In this project, I reassess fundamental assumptions about tradition, classicality, and authenticity by exploring how artists of various Indian dance forms construct and engage these terms in the retelling of the history ... -
Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between (exploring Black memory through embodied storytelling)
(2022)Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between is a creative process-based interdisciplinaryinstallation and paper that conceptualizes storytelling as a practice of embodied memory recollection. This work focuses on viewing storytelling ... -
Embodied Resonance: Using Movement Based Practice to Critically Engage Black Girlhood and K-12 Public Education
(2022)In the United States children spend anywhere from nine to thirteen years in school. During this time, children experience some of their most developmentally formative years of their life, which is often characterized as ... -
Gathering my people: movement-based relational organizing to dismantle white supremacy
(2021)Political organizing—the work of building relationships and capacity to execute collective action and bring about social change—is an embodied practice. It is learned by doing as people meet, in person or virtually, to hone ... -
Le Butō et le choix de la chair : les influences françaises sur la quête ontologique de la "danse des ténèbres"
(2019-04-07)"Emmenez un cambrioleur dans un café pendant la journée et donnez-lui du gâteau. Il va pleurer" - Hijikata Tatsumi (Shibusawa 79). La danse est un médium d'art éphémère dont l'expression unique du temps (Valéry 22) submerge ... -
Movement IS the Moyuba: Critical Orisha Dance Pedagogy
(2021)There is not enough space in this document to capture all that you have done in support of this work. -
Quare Dance: Fashioning a Black, Queer, Fem(me)inist Aesthetic in Ballet
(2021)What can an intersectional lens that considers race, gender, and sexuality offer ballet in the 21st century? Historically, Black and Queer stories have been relegated to the margins of ballet history in service of Eurocentric, ... -
Through Her Looking Glass: Emancipation of the Black Muse
(2021)Through Her Looking Glass: Emancipation of the Black Muse, An Undertaking of Black Women Artists, and “Emancipated Spaces” seeks to explore the creative possibilities of Black Women Artists when disassociated from the stigma ... -
We, Present in Space: Queer Performance Cultures of Transience and Care based in Black Feminisms
(2021)I rely on literary and performative investigations around home and comfort to reflect on how artists who identify as genderqueer, femme, or non-conforming (acknowledged as Queer, Transgender, and Non-binary identifying people ... -
Writing Women Dance
(2021)This project examines dance scenes in nineteenth-century French novels written by women to consider how grace—beauty in motion—defines women as social, moral, and artistic actors. Creating a constellation of dance scenes, ...
