The works of Alvin Ailey have been largely overlooked by musicologists interested in studying the intersections between music and dance. This is true despite his overrepresentation in dance scholarship in large part because of the sustained popularity of the Alvin Ailey American…
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This research project examines the experiences of four women of colors in dance leadership in the United States currently, and the problematic patterns of system-wide issues in higher education that affect their lives. To develop that understanding, this study drew upon portrait…
This thesis explores the intersection of African-American heritage and creative process in concert dance choreography for contemporary black dance artists. I will examine how perceptions of blackness influence the spectrum of creative work produced by these artists. I investigat…
“Classicism and Romanticism in Three Ballets by Frederick Ashton” examines three ballets by the twentieth-century British choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton (1904–1988). I tease apart elements of the aesthetic theories of classicism and romanticism as they manifest in Ashton’s c…
This dissertation marks the first historical and administrative overview of the Orlando International Fringe Festival. The Orlando International Fringe Festival (OIFF) is America's oldest still-operating fringe theatre festival. This two-week performing arts and immersive cultur…
This historic case study explores individual dancing bodies in Israel, Brazil, and West Germany throughout years of reframing nationality and nation. The socio-political group contains members who share a common agenda and values. They define themselves by creating their own gro…
The purpose of this arts based autoethnography is to describe and explore my experience of blackness as an African American dance/movement therapist in training. A brief history of dance movement therapy, diversity within the field, the experience of blackness from the eyes of f…
Muscular Judaism, a concept presented by Zionist leader Max Nordau at the Second Zionist Congress of 1898, had far reaching ramifications. One of these was the construction of a new human type; the blond haired, blue eyed, masculine and muscular indigenous/authentic Hebrew perso…
This research explores the field of dance education in Israel from the perspective of dance teachers working in the field. The personal and professional meaning that dance teachers and educators give to their work is explored. The research identifies goals, challenges, and needs…
This study investigates the development of dances in Indonesia through the works and careers of four choreographers--Bagong Kussudiardja (b. 1928), Huriah Adam (1936-71), Sardono W. Kusumo (b. 1945), and Retno Maruti (b. 1947). They are prominent choreographers whose works repre…
Performing Indian Dance is an interdisciplinary project that reveals the dynamics of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in Malaysian Indian dance. I demonstrate that the emergence of prominent multi-ethnic male dancers in Malaysia is enabled by a unique configuration of "bumiputer…
This dissertation entitled, “In the Spirit of Community: African Dance in Transmission at the KanKouran,” focuses on Assane Konte and his development of the KanKouran West African Dance Company (KWADC or KanKouran) as a transmitter of West African culture, through traditional We…
The portfolio consists of four original compositions: (1) Triptych (for orchestra); (2) Rain Sketch (for oboe & orchestra); (3) Rain Sketch II (for percussion quartet); (4) Calligraphy Fantasia (for Chinese instrumental ensemble). Triptych is written for a large orchestra, is di…
This thesis will provide an analysis of a projected undergraduate Body Knowledge program for dance in an Israeli university. Nineteen dance programs in American universities were studied, as well as the two existing Israeli undergraduate dance programs at Seminar Hakibutzim and …
The hypothesis of this thesis is that an understanding of politics and policy as related to higher education is a vital component of successfully establishing and maintaining programs in the performing arts and that this is an important area of research that has been neglected. …
On March 1, 2001 at A. B. Miller High School, four choreographic works were presented as part of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree program in Dance: A Shroud of Silence, eight and a half minutes; It Takes Two to Tango, six minutes; Still I Rise, five minutes; and Ac…
The Matachines dance of New Mexico is a marginal survival originally from the Iberian Peninsula, where its ancient roots extended to the Roman sword dances and rain rituals of Islamic North Africa, and is related to the English Morris dance. Fragments of the Matachines' ancient …
This study argues for the centrality of dance to the style and structure of three modern epics: H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, William Carlos Williams' Paterson and James Joyce's Ulysses. My critical approach is twofold: I examine how the modern epic is conceptualized through dance aest…
This thesis will provide the first analysis of a projected graduate dance degree program for an Israeli university. Nine graduate dance curricula in the United States were studied as well as the two existing Israeli undergraduate dance programs at seminar Hakibutzim and The Jeru…