Dancing Cultural Memory: Three Contemporary Choreographies Informed by a Migrant Embodiment of "Home"

dc.contributor.advisorSmall, Holly
dc.creatorMata Soledad, Maria Victoria
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T14:46:31Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T14:46:31Z
dc.date.copyright2014-04-21
dc.date.issued2014-07-28
dc.date.updated2014-07-28T16:13:57Z
dc.degree.disciplineDance
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes how memory is performed through the creation of three contemporary dance-based choreographies: Lejania (Distant), Memory Lane and ImShift. Influenced by Afro-Venezuelan movement and contemporary dance, I explore specific locations where memory is stored in the body. All three choreographic case studies have pronounced motifs of white cloth, partial nudity, shadows and percussive rhythms. This analysis spring boards from leading scholars that write about issues of embodiment, cultural memory and diasporic performance such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Diana Taylor, Coco Fusco and Gloria Anzaldua. The dynamic movement vocabulary creates a body bilingualism that draws from the dancers’ personal lives and each author’s issues of living in the margins of mainstream society, belonging and challenging Latin American immigrant stereotypes. This paper examines the historical knowledge and shared sense of identity that is embodied and expressed in the performances.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/27688
dc.language.isoenen_US
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dc.subjectDanceen_US
dc.subjectLatin American studiesen_US
dc.subjectMulticultural educationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsArte de la fronteraen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodying memoryen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLatin American Diasporaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsToronto Diasporaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMigrant experienceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance Artsen_US
dc.subject.keywordsVictoria Mataen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAlexandra Gelisen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLiving in the in betweenen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDiana Tayloren_US
dc.subject.keywordsGuillermo Gomez-Penaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCoco Fuscoen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGloria Anzalduaen_US
dc.subject.keywordsYork University Danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsEthnographic lens of Danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsParticipatory danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsDancing with Clothen_US
dc.subject.keywordsUsing slow motion in choreographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAfro-Latino Folkloreen_US
dc.subject.keywordsVenezuelan Folkloreen_US
dc.subject.keywordsAfro Venezuelan Folkloreen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPedagogy of the Oppresseden_US
dc.subject.keywordsPedagogic Choreographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsTelling stories through choreographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMemory and danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsChoreographing through memory embodimenten_US
dc.subject.keywordsArchiving memory and danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsArchiving memory and choreographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsGroup choreographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsReplacing dancersen_US
dc.subject.keywordsImportance of lighting designeren_US
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity and danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity accountability in creationen_US
dc.subject.keywordsParticipatory arten_US
dc.subject.keywordsActivism and danceen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMatadanzeen_US
dc.subject.keywordsCollectiveen_US
dc.subject.keywordsConsecuencias collectiveen_US
dc.subject.keywordsImportance of an outside eyeen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMultimedia arts and borderen_US
dc.subject.keywordsBorder crossing arten_US
dc.titleDancing Cultural Memory: Three Contemporary Choreographies Informed by a Migrant Embodiment of "Home"en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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