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Spring Dance Concert (April 21-23, 2022), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Program for the Spring Dance Concert (April 21-23, 2022).

Queering Pina Bausch: Tanztheater For Queer Bipoc Artists, Lu Chen

Theatre and Dance Honors Projects

Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater (“dance-theater” in English) revolutionized global dance theater performance. From a feminist perspective, Bausch mixed movement with theatrical design elements and film techniques to express emotions and sentiments of women-men relationships, and the boundary between performing and being displayed. Inspired by German Expressionist Dance and post-World-War-II avant-garde movements across Europe and the United States, her movement language and text were visceral in expressiveness through repetition, alienation, montage technique, and emotive gestures (Helden 134). In this essay I explore how Bausch’s approach to dance-theater can welcome dancers who stand outside of the German choreographer’s identity as a white European …

Program: The Sound Of Music, University Of Dayton, Teejai Dorsey

Dance and Theater Programs

Music by RICHARD RODGERS

Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

Book by HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL CROUSE

Suggested by "The Trapp Family Singers" by Maria Augusta Trapp

Music and Lyrics for "I Have Confidence" and "Something Good" by Richard Rodgers

April 8-9, 2022

Boll Theatre in Kennedy Union

Co-produced by the Theatre, Dance, and Performance Technology program and the Department of Music

Set in 1938 amidst the rise of nationalism, The Sound of Music is a story of being true to one’s authentic self in the face of social and religious division. Maria is a novitiate who struggles with the constriction …

Winter Dance Concert (March 3-5, 2022), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Program for the Winter Dance Concert (March 3-5, 2022).

To Kill A Mockingbird

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University's performance of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, dramatized by Christopher Sergel.

Performed February 18-20 & 25-27, 2022 at the Mitchell Theatre.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a dramatization by Christopher Sergel of Harper Lee's classic novel. Set in the racially segregated South during the 1930s, the play follows young Scout Finch and her brother Jem as they witness their father, Atticus Finch, defend Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Through Scout's eyes, the story explores themes of racial injustice, moral integrity, and the loss of innocence. The …

Dancescape Poster 2022, Winona State University

Dancescape Posters

A poster for the Winona State University Theatre and Dance Department's annual Dancescape. This is a poster for the Dancscape 2022.

The 2022 Classroom Project: Land Of Ours, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2021-2022 Season Production

LAND OF OURS is a brand-new play devised in rehearsal by an ensemble of Otterbein University actors, designers, stage managers, and directors. The play explores the centrality of travel and journeying to human experience. Drawing on the ensemble's personal experiences, stories of mythical travel from legend and folklore, and travel explorations invented in rehearsal, LAND OF OURS is a theatrical journey that will transport you beyond the theater walls to a destination of the imagination.

A Girl Is A Thing: Dramaturgies Of Objects And Nature In Contemporary Choreography, Fidan Akinci

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation investigates the expansion of performative possibilities toward and through nonhumans in contemporary choreography as a feminist inquiry. I research the upsurge of performing objects and natural matter in contemporary choreography by questioning what kind of bodies other than humans can move, and what kind of affects and expressions they offer beyond more familiar and anthropocentric possibilities. I link this challenge to the humanistic limits of performance with the feminist interrogations on agency and objectification to fully explore the political stakes of mobilizing with the nonhuman. To that end, I put the feminist trajectories in posthumanism, new materialism, and …

The Body As A Means Of Cultural Awareness And Social Intervention: The Case Of Raymond Duncan And Penelope Sikelianos, Ekaterini Diakoumopoulou

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

Using the example of the Duncan family this article will explore the human body as an object of self-determination, a means of overcoming social boundaries, a field of racist shooting and phobic enforcement, a reference point of public outrage and the complex between sociality and corporality, but also as a tool of political vigilance and social intervention. Does a body dressed in a tunic resist the western way of life? Or is it a stereotypical outpouring of people unable to modernize? Is the body instrumentalized as a means of narrating exoticism? The bodies of the Duncan family members are an …

Women Of The Dalit Unrest: Rewriting Bodies, Reinforcing Resistance, Suddhadeep Mukherjee

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

The paper aims to take the scholarship on corporeal feminism and Dalit Studies forward by focusing on the Dalit woman’s body. The body is not treated as an inert surface in this paper but is considered as a transformative medium that can alter its embedded codifications and significations through transgressive performances in the face of systemic and systematized caste violence. In doing so the gendered body not only challenges to rewrite the Dalit epistemology from the vantage of resistance but also initiates a rethinking of Indian feminism. The paper begins with a discursive discussion on the importance of the gender …

Bodies And Expressions: Exploring The Aesthetics Of Disability Performance Art, Jaya Sarkar

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

No abstract provided.

Embodied Digital Storytelling With Ancestral Legacy, Giselle Ruzany

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

Embodied Digital Storytelling with Ancestral Legacy is a study of one's ancestral legacy with a diverse group of professional dancers who were asked to engage in an embodied inquiry. Research questions were: What is the experience of creating embodied digital storytelling when exploring one’s ancestral legacy? What can be learned from identity, sense of belonging, and resilience through this process? The study included an interview about each dancer's ancestral story, the creation of embodied digital storytelling (EDS), a final interview, and a group member checking meeting for the purpose of confirming the transcripts and findings. This meeting also served as …

College Of The Arts 22/23 Season, Department Of Theatre And Dance, John J. Cali School Of Music

2022-2023

No abstract provided.

Fashioning The Flapper: Clothing As A Catalyst For Social Change In 1920s America, Julia Wolffe

Honors Program Theses

Fashion has been a catalyst for social change throughout human history. Fashion in 1920s America in particular reflects society's rapidly evolving attitudes towards gender and race. Beginning with how corsetry heavily restricted women for nearly four hundred years up until the twentieth century, this thesis explores how clothing has acted as a tool for societal progression following World War I and Women's Suffrage and during the Jazz Age and The Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, this thesis examines how the influence of jazz music and dance that originated from Black American communities led to the creation of the flapper evening dress. The …

A Dancer's Image, Sydney Baker

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Dancers are amazingly dedicated athletes who train for hours a day to try and perfect their craft. In doing so, they can become hyper focused on the details, picking apart every aspect of themselves and their technique. With so much time spent training, it can be difficult to take a step back and analyze the role the mirror plays in a dancer’s training and everyday life. There are many factors that can affect a dancer's body image, including the social environment between educators and peers, social standards and social media, dance clothing, and so much more. This report and creative …

Scaling Up Video Digitization At The University Of Maryland Libraries: A Case Study, Elizabeth M. Caringola, Pamela A. Mcclanahan, Robin C. Pike

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

In 2015, a team at the University of Maryland Libraries collaborated on a pilot project to digitize 100 VHS tapes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange collection and, in doing so, established organizational workflows for video digitization and access. After completing the pilot phase of the project, staff who worked on the project published a case study in this journal that articulated a question echoed throughout that process: “Is this enough?” Enough descriptive metadata? Enough technical metadata? Enough storage space? This article will reflect on the pilot project, detail how the digitization specifications and workflows established during the pilot project …

Something Rotten!, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2021-2022 Season Production

Something Rotten takes place in 1595 London, England. The Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel are trying to find success by writing plays, but are outshined by the rock-star playwright of the Renaissance, William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success Nick gets help from a soothsayer for the next big hit.

การใช้อาวุธตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน, สุวรักข์ อยู่แท้กูล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เรื่อง การใช้อาวุธตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาวิธีการใช้อาวุธของตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน เรื่องรามเกียรติ์ โดยใช้ระเบียบวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ด้วยการศึกษาจากเอกสาร การสัมภาษณ์ และการสังเกตจากการแสดง โดยมุ่งเน้นให้เห็นถึงหลักการ ทฤษฎี กลวิธีและแนวทางในการปฏิบัติ การใช้อาวุธลักษณะต่าง ๆ ของตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน เรื่องรามเกียรติ์ โดยศึกษารูปแบบและวิธีการปฏิบัติของครูสมศักดิ์ ทัดติ ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านนาฏศิลป์ไทยโขน ตัวยักษ์ สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนศิลป์ กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า อาวุธของตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน เป็นอาวุธที่มีรูปแบบที่เป็นลักษณะเฉพาะ บางส่วนได้รับอิทธิพลมาจากอาวุธที่ใช้งานจริงและบางส่วนได้นำรูปร่างและลักษณะมาจากภาพจิตรกรรมฝาผนัง อาวุธของตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขน สามารถแบ่งตามลักษณะของอาวุธที่ปรากฎในการแสดงโขนได้ทั้งหมด 3 ประเภท ได้แก่ อาวุธสั้น อาวุธยาว และอาวุธพิเศษ วิธีการใช้อาวุธแต่ละประเภทก็จะแตกต่างกันออกไปขึ้นอยู่กับชนิดของอาวุธที่นำมาใช้ ผู้แสดงจึงต้องมีทักษะและความเชี่ยวชาญสำหรับการใช้อาวุธประกอบการแสดง ตัวยักษ์บางตน อาจจะการใช้อาวุธที่มากกว่าหนึ่งชนิด ซึ่งชนิดของอาวุธที่ใช้ก็อาจจะแตกต่างกันไปตามลักษณะหรือประเภทของอาวุธ อีกทั้งการแสดงของตัวยักษ์จะมีลักษณะที่แข็งแรงและคล่องแคล่ว ผู้แสดงตัวยักษ์จึงจำเป็นที่จะต้องรู้จักวิธีการใช้อาวุธในแต่ละประเภท เพื่อสื่อให้เห็นถึงความสวยงาม ความแข็งแรง และความสง่างามของตัวละครที่ใช้อาวุธในขณะที่ทำการแสดง โดยเฉพาะยักษ์ที่เป็นตัวละครเอก การใช้อาวุธในการแสดงของตัวยักษ์ในการแสดงโขนเรื่องรามเกียรติ์ จึงเป็นหนึ่งองค์ประกอบที่สำคัญอย่างหนึ่งสำหรับการแสดง และเป็นกระบวนที่ผู้แสดงสามารถอวดฝีมือการใช้อาวุธของตัวยักษ์ได้อย่างเต็มภาคภูมิ

Learning Robot Motion From Creative Human Demonstration, Charles C. Dietzel

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents a learning from demonstration framework that enables a robot to learn and perform creative motions from human demonstrations in real-time. In order to satisfy all of the functional requirements for the framework, the developed technique is comprised of two modular components, which integrate together to provide the desired functionality. The first component, called Dancing from Demonstration (DfD), is a kinesthetic learning from demonstration technique. This technique is capable of playing back newly learned motions in real-time, as well as combining multiple learned motions together in a configurable way, either to reduce trajectory error or to generate entirely …

Women Dancers Of Color Decolonizing Knowledge Production Through Performance, Mio Yoshizaki

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This thesis focuses on how women dancers of color (WDoC) decolonize the process of knowledge production through performance. Through a feminist perspective, this research analyzes the ways WDoC use dance and movement to share their voices as women of color. The American concert dance industry was established based on Western perspectives. When WDoC create performances about their own lived experiences, dance plays a role in decolonizing the process of knowledge production by portraying their unique perspectives and culture through movement. Focus group discussions with women of color who perform in a midwestern metro area were selected as a method for …