At the centre of this research is a performance, entitled Recreation. This performance features in this thesis both as a constituent element, where the reader is invited to review video documentation of one of the live iterations halfway through, and as the primary choreographic…
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This thesis offers critical exploration of the intersection of four elements within the historical space, or field, of UK theatre dance between 2007 and 2012: disability, impairment, dance and artistry. It addresses four questions: What is disability? What is disability in relat…
This thesis examines the way in which dance work produced by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products and clear indications of the sometimes oppressive processes…
This project is concerned with exploring the relationship between postconceptual dance and its state as object. As a practice-led research project it aims to do so both through the written thesis and through artistic practice, which is here presented as a series of video project…
This research explores narrative through ballet inspired movement and projection, using the concept of Giselle and the individual stories of dancers as catalysts for new work. The process emphasizes individuality with a focus on experience by working with stories of sexual haras…
My dissertation examines how activist women mobilize folk dance as a political force in contemporary Turkey. Over the last decade, the prevailing Turkish government has turned authoritarian and attempted to regulate practices of everyday life by marginalizing large segments of t…
This dissertation explores and analyzes What is Black dance and the role that Black dance plays in the professional development of teaching artists in Black arts’ educational organizations preparing Black dancers for careers on the concert stage. What is Black Dance has evoked c…
As the most recent brass instrument to be added to the standard orchestra, the tuba’s solo repertoire is relatively new compared to other orchestral instruments. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the first major concerto for tuba in 1954, over 100 years after the tuba’s creation i…
"Space Cadet" investigates black and Asian women's slippery presence in performance through collaboratively devised solos. I am interested in the (in)visibility of lived experience and am curious about the residues of subjugation and erasure in the body. Through this process, I …
This dissertation presents an ethnographic study of the neo-burlesque scene in New York City, a group of nightlife artists who perform theatrical striptease. Based on fieldwork conducted from 2015 to 2018, this study uses the lens of labor to explore issues of art making, aesthe…
My dissertation project examines the gradual phases of recontextualizing, folklorizing, heritagizing, and choreographing dance in Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, and in the Former Yugoslavia in general. In order to demonstrate how dance becomes an intangible cultural heritage, I…
My project surveys the work of Lon Fontaine, a dancer who performed, taught, and choreographed for many of the twentieth century’s most prominent black American entertainers. Though Fontaine collaborated with several important black social, commercial, and political institutions…
The themes presented in this thesis are an exploration of the embodied-ness of our nature and how it is affected by the structures that define existence. I also touch on aspects of post-World War II architecture and the artistic influences that have affected my thinking, and the…