Dancing Cultural Memory: Three Contemporary Choreographies Informed by a Migrant Embodiment of "Home"
dc.contributor.advisor | Small, Holly | |
dc.creator | Mata Soledad, Maria Victoria | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-31T14:46:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-31T14:46:31Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2014-04-21 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-07-28 | |
dc.date.updated | 2014-07-28T16:13:57Z | |
dc.degree.discipline | Dance | |
dc.degree.level | Master's | |
dc.degree.name | MFA - Master of Fine Arts | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/27688 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.rights | Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. | |
dc.subject | Dance | en_US |
dc.subject | Latin American studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Multicultural education | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Arte de la frontera | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Embodying memory | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Latin American Diaspora | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Toronto Diaspora | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Migrant experience | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Performance Arts | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Victoria Mata | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Alexandra Gelis | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Living in the in between | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Diana Taylor | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Guillermo Gomez-Pena | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Coco Fusco | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Gloria Anzaldua | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | York University Dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Ethnographic lens of Dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Participatory dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Dancing with Cloth | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Using slow motion in choreography | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Afro-Latino Folklore | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Venezuelan Folklore | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Afro Venezuelan Folklore | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Pedagogy of the Oppressed | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Pedagogic Choreography | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Telling stories through choreography | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Memory and dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Choreographing through memory embodiment | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Archiving memory and dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Archiving memory and choreography | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Group choreography | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Replacing dancers | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Importance of lighting designer | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Community and dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Community accountability in creation | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Participatory art | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Activism and dance | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Matadanze | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Collective | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Consecuencias collective | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Importance of an outside eye | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Multimedia arts and border | en_US |
dc.subject.keywords | Border crossing art | en_US |
dc.title | Dancing Cultural Memory: Three Contemporary Choreographies Informed by a Migrant Embodiment of "Home" | en_US |
dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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