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The Maroon Cycle, Lloyd-Princeton Cangé May 2026

The Maroon Cycle, Lloyd-Princeton Cangé

Masters Theses

The key element that ties most of the major franchises together, whether the IP is a YA series or a videogame is the epic story or epic poem. From The Iliad and the Odyssey to Dragonball and Demon Slayer, the epic is a wellspring of endless iteration. Here, language does not merely buttress and support the work, as is often the case in contemporary art, but language is the narrative, the direct source material. The epic poem that is The Maroon Cycle will consist of both prose stanzas and images in the form of paintings, drawings, collages, prints, and photographs. …


Simone's Reflections, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Simone's Reflections, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Billie's Reflections, Billie Wynn, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Billie's Reflections, Billie Wynn, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Sagian's Reflections, Sagian Shaw, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Sagian's Reflections, Sagian Shaw, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Rise, Ning Yen, Omar Abdelhamid, Erin Xi, Nicole Xu Jan 2024

Rise, Ning Yen, Omar Abdelhamid, Erin Xi, Nicole Xu

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Raul's Reflections, Raul Falcon, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Raul's Reflections, Raul Falcon, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Fatma's Promise, Husna Abubakar, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Clarissa Guzman Jan 2024

Fatma's Promise, Husna Abubakar, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Clarissa Guzman

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Skeleton Man, Billie Wynn, Sagian Shaw, Taira Schurman Jan 2024

Skeleton Man, Billie Wynn, Sagian Shaw, Taira Schurman

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore Jan 2024

Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Motion Capture For Orature | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Motion Capture For Orature | Wintersession 2024 Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

This winter session course invites students to explore motion capture through the lens of traditional oral storytelling practices. Students will actively identify the unique and distinguishing features of orature, and leverage their own cultural backgrounds, personal perspectives, and idiosyncrasies to create motion capture data that can be used in crafting an immersive digital retelling of a folktale.


Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Instances Of The Spirit (Glossary), Kamari A. Smalls Jun 2023

Instances Of The Spirit (Glossary), Kamari A. Smalls

Masters Theses

This thesis offers a performative methodology to engaging with the worlds and ideas that these words have generated in the form of a glossary. The list of words include: Ancestor, Anointing, Attune, Breath, Conjure, Conversion, Dance, Erotic, Ephemera, Ethervism, God, Girlhood, Hallelujah, Imagination, Improvisation, Jazz, Knowledge, Love, Liturgical, Magic, Memory, Performance, Prayer, Remnant, Repetition, Ritual, Root, Sacred/Secular, Silence/Stillness, Sound, Spell, Spirit, Testimony, Water, and Witness. Personal reflections, contemplations and expansions from other writing, and passages that come out of Black feminist thought, Black girlhood studies, and Black performance theory exist here simultaneously. This glossary demonstrates the theory, theology and lineages …