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The Laramie Project, Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department 2025 Otterbein University

The Laramie Project, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2024-2025 Season Productions

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In Between The House Light And The Sun Rise, Xinyi Zhang 2025 Colby College

In Between The House Light And The Sun Rise, Xinyi Zhang

Honors Theses

In Between the House Light and the Sun Rise is a research project that includes a 20-minute performance and a written thesis. The research uses the framework of relationality to explore the relationship between humans and houseplants. Although houseplants live in a human-constructed environment, they have their own influences on people and the space around them. Learning from the ways plants move through time and space and the connections plants make with each other and with other living and non-living things, this project aims to use movement to reimagine the way we think about time, space, and community. This project …


Post Opera, Suzy Lykins 2025 Virginia Commonwealth University

Post Opera, Suzy Lykins

Theses and Dissertations

Post Opera is a spell and work of embodied research which explores medicalization, desire, labor, and belief. Through methods of performance, sound, text and installation, I facilitate encounters of trans-femininity, spiritual power and connectivity. An opening wound, a set of psychic scalpels, sutures and bandages prepare this text for your consumption, take care to digest her well.


Exploring The Shadows: How Taylor Swift's Music Embodies Dark Sound As A Popular Music Artist, Kristyn E. Cole 2025 Wilfrid Laurier University

Exploring The Shadows: How Taylor Swift's Music Embodies Dark Sound As A Popular Music Artist, Kristyn E. Cole

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

To challenge the conceptual matter of “dark sound”, this major research paper centers around the popular music artist, Taylor Swift to demonstrate an overarching feminist wisdom in an alternative style of music to identify how Taylor Swift presents and embodies qualities of “dark sound”. Research done by D. Ferrett, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes and Paul C. Jasen are used to examine her popular music, and its intersections and influence on our culture and society. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, this research paper discusses three of Swift’s songs; “willow” (evermore, 2020) for her sound, All Too Well: The Short …


“Windows For Witness: Dan Fishback’S Radical Access”, Alexandra Juhasz 2025 CUNY Brooklyn College

“Windows For Witness: Dan Fishback’S Radical Access”, Alexandra Juhasz

Publications and Research

Dan Fishback’s Jewish crip aesthetic – art made within a framework of integrated access – is rooted in the human (or Jewish!) capacity to be generous and so much more. He expands our understandings of who is in the room, who is in the world, who is in our community, who lives at the same time as us but in a different way. This connection in his show between chronic illness and Palestine is not only about alienation it is about identification and solidarity.


The Right Way To Go Wrong: A Reflection, Peter A. Graham 2025 Claremont McKenna College

The Right Way To Go Wrong: A Reflection, Peter A. Graham

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis documents my personal experience acting in Pomona College’s Fall 2024 production of The Play That Goes Wrong. I begin with an artist statement – a poem explaining the reasons why I act. The paper then moves into a general overview of the project, including my past training and future goals. The next section, which is the bulk of the material, contains chronological evidence of the production from start to finish and focuses on my attempt to find precise physicality. I finish with thoughts about the result as well as general reflections on how the process has shaped …


Lend Me Your Hands: Engaging Waldorf Teachers In Pedagogical Puppetry For Student Growth, Corinna Rezzelle-Pennypacker 2025 Antioch University

Lend Me Your Hands: Engaging Waldorf Teachers In Pedagogical Puppetry For Student Growth, Corinna Rezzelle-Pennypacker

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Although puppetry has a long history as a holistic teaching tool, it remains an underutilized arts integration technique in elementary and secondary schools. To better understand Waldorf teachers’ perspectives on pedagogical puppetry and the necessary training to effectively implement the work, this explanatory mixed-methods dissertation sought to fill the gap in research on teachers’ views of puppetry and what training they believe is important to feel comfortable doing the work. Committed to using an action research approach, a professional development workshop and lesson plans were created for 1st-8th grade Waldorf teachers based on the feedback from this dissertation’s explanatory interviews …


Public Projection | What Is Public?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | What Is Public?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

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Public Projection | Intervention, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | Intervention, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

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Performance Assemblages | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, LA Samuelson, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Performance Assemblages | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, La Samuelson, Movement Lab

Course Materials & Research

In this course, we will make solo and collaborative performance works. We will approach performance as the project of creating new contexts for interrelation–between beings, material, matter, the known, and the unknown–that allow both the performer and the viewer to learn and/or experience something we otherwise would not have access to. In other words, the work of this class is the work of listening in the direction of something you can’t quite yet hear, and taking the time to figure out: where you might stand, what device you might invent, what you might wear, and how you might work with …


Performance Assemblages | Research, LA Samuelson, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Performance Assemblages | Research, La Samuelson, Movement Lab

Course Materials & Research

No abstract provided.


Public Projection | What Is Projection?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | What Is Projection?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Public Projection | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

In this course, we will create site-specific projections that breathe new life onto the built environment. Working in the lineage of street art and guerrilla performance, we will explore the relationship between art, public space and the communities we inhabit. How is projection a tool of public communication? How can light and movement reshape architecture and human behavior? We will research sites, understand their stories, develop creative interventions, build prototypes and work collaboratively to design ephemeral public installations.


Telegraph Valley Performance, Installation, And Animation, LA Samuelson, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Telegraph Valley Performance, Installation, And Animation, La Samuelson, Movement Lab

Personal Work

"My fellowship project culminated in a 10 month exhibition and a series of 5 performances in Miami, presented by Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, the National Performance Network, with support from the RISD Movement Lab and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The work was also included in Miami Art Week - 2025." – LA Samuelson


What Year Is It?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

What Year Is It?, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Personal Work

No abstract provided.


Surveillance Studies, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Surveillance Studies, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Personal Work

No abstract provided.


Stereoscope Studies, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Stereoscope Studies, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Personal Work

No abstract provided.


Public Projection | Found Footage, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | Found Footage, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Public Projection | Typography, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Public Projection | Typography, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Rheology, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab 2025 Rhode Island School of Design

Rheology, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Personal Work

No abstract provided.


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