Browsing by Subject "dance"
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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 ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
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, ... -
The Political Power of Dance: To Preserve or Not To Preserve?
(2017-04-16)Since the second half of the twentieth century, the performing arts community has struggled with a lack of resources, due to dwindling governmental funding. Recently, the 2008 financial recession proved the worse economic ... -
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, ...
