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154725 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38787 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2016 x, 93 pages : illustrations Masters Thesis Academic theses Text eng Alvarez, Ricardo Schupp, Karen Magenta, Muriel Rajko, Jessica Standley, Eileen Arizona State University Partial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2016 Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-93) Field of study: Dance This document analyzes the use of the Principles of Design within the applied project It’s My Party, a multimedia dance theatre production, as a means to address and overcome the stigmatization of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Through the orchestration of dance, music, props, acting, video, and spoken word, this interdisciplinary work investigates how these production elements synthesize into a transformative theatrical experience for audiences. Outlined in this document is the eight month design process. The process included concept design, assessing, processing, customizing the message, script development, rehearsals, and video production, and concluded with an evening length production. Analyzed through the structural narrative of The Hero’s Journey, this autobiographic work details the author’s HIV-positive (HIV+) coming out story from a restorative narrative perspective. By addressing the subject of HIV from a contemporary point-of-view, this project strives to reencode the troubling associations affiliated with HIV with an empowered and hopeful understanding. Dance Theater Hero's Journey HIV HIV Stigma Interdisciplinary Principles of Design Restorative Narrative HIV-positive persons--Public opinion. HIV-positive persons Overcoming stigma through design: It's my party : a multimedia dance theatre production