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The Debaprasad Das Tradition: Reconsidering the Narrative of Classical Indian Odissi Dance History
(2014-07-09)This dissertation is dedicated to theorizing the Debaprasad Das stylistic lineage of Indian classical Odissi dance. Odissi is one of the seven classical Indian dance forms recognized by the Indian government. Each of these ... -
Towards a Generative Politics of Expression: Re-Negotiating Identity in the "Traditional" Dances of Fiji and Fiji's Canadian Diaspora
(2015-01-26)Recent performances of the “traditional” Fijian song-dance practice called meke indicate a re-negotiation of identity amongst Fijians living in Fiji and Canada. Post-independence Fiji has had a tumultuous history with ... -
Reconstructing the Present Through Kinesthetic History: An Investigation into Modes of Preserving, Transmitting, and Restaging Contemporary Dance
(2015-08-28)Methods of dance preservation have evolved alongside conceptual themes that have framed dance’s historical narrative. The tradition of written dance notation developed in accordance with notions that prioritized logocentricity, ... -
Ballet Pedagogy as Kinesthetic Collaboration: Exploring Kinesthetic Dialogue in an Embodied Student-Teacher Relationship
(2016-11-25)The twenty-first century ballet class often retains traditional organization, beginning with the barre work, continuing with the centre practice, adage, pirouettes, and allegro. However, the pedagogical demands on teachers ... -
Resistance: In Practice, as Process, and as Metaphor
(2017-07-27)Resistance: in Practice, as Process, and as Metaphor is an ethnographic and a practice-based research project. Michel Foucaults theory of the docile body is firmly embedded within the dissertations methodological framework ... -
Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
(2018-08-27)This research examines the effect of Soviet Union era indoctrination on dance pedagogy and performance at DanceSport studios run by Soviet migrants in Canada. I investigate the processes of cultural cross-pollination within ... -
Choreographing and Reinventing Chinese Diasporic Identities - An East-West Collaboration
(2018-11-21)In demonstrating Eastern- and Western-based Chinese diasporic dances as equally critical and question-provoking in Chinese identity reconstructions, this research compares choreographic implications in the Hong Kong-Taiwan ... -
Metacognitive Writing Strategies for Emerging Dancer-Scholars: Uncovering Supportive Links Between Academic Writing and Choreographic Processes
(2018-11-21)Canadian graduate programs in Dance at the Masters level frequently accept students with long professional careers in dance but limited academic background in writing essays. Writing term papers, with perhaps only dim ... -
Work It Out: Three Case Studies Examining Dance and Girls' Body Image in Early Adolescence
(2019-03-05)For young girls, the self-disciplining of their physical bodies, both in their use and appearance, has resulted in the prevalence of body image issues. Supported by extensive literature on body image, I argue that young ... -
Between Species: Choreographing Human and Nonhuman Bodies
(2019-11-22)BETWEEN SPECIES: CHOREOGRAPHING HUMAN AND NONHUMAN BODIES is a dissertation project informed by practice-led and practice-based modes of engagement, which approaches the space of the zoo as a multi-species, choreographic, ... -
Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
(2020-05-11)This dissertation examines female figures in Disney animation through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), a system for observing and articulating movement qualities. Drawing from six major films released between ... -
An Applied Neurobiological Model Of Dance, Why It Matters, And How It Heals
(2021-03-08)Dance-based programs for neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinsons and Alzheimers (PD/AD) diseases are growing, with reported benefits including physical, cognitive, and affective improvements. This is not a new ... -
Going Off! The Untold Story of Breaking's Birth
(2021-07-06)When breaking first emerged in The Bronx, New York, of the 1970s, it was a dance practiced almost exclusively by African American teenagers. Yet, most scholarly accounts of the dance have focused on Latino/a youth and media ... -
Exploring the Life and Work of Gladys Forrester: A Canadian Dance Educator, 1936 - 1998
(2021-07-06)The current body of literature regarding dance history in Canada is informative and expanding, focusing predominantly on professional schools, dancers, choreographers and companies. There is much yet to be said, however, ... -
I Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses
(2021-11-15)This doctoral research relates the somatic, sensory awareness, and eco-performative processes through which I seek to depattern my somatic amnesia and repattern my ecosomatic relationship to the land – a portal into what ... -
Life as Somatic Practice
(2021-11-15)Somatics refers to a broad field of ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies that bring attention to the first-person subjective, sensorial experience of life through the practice of directing non-judgmental, open ... -
Men in Mohiniyattam: An Ethnographic Study on Gender Binaries
(2021-11-15)Mohiniyattam is an Indian Classical Dance form that originated in the state of Kerala and is popularly referred as the "dance of the enchantress." As a historically female-dominated genre, men have experienced barriers to ...