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ABSTRACT The participatory and interactive nature of the "Hearing in Color" project unites people from different walks of life. My interest lies in creating a space for people to explore their creativity, think critically, and hone their own voice in a safe and collaborative environment. I have discovered that all art forms: movement, voice, visual or digital, stimulate possibilities for expression and enable people to move forward in new directions. To this end, my project fused multiple avenues of engagement, innovative dance technology, and alternative or site-specific locations to create a community-based project aimed at promoting dialogue and enhancing ties between several groups in the Phoenix area. In this paper, I argue that a multi-layered approach to community-arts and the use of advanced technology builds bridges for diverse populations to come together to participate and learn from one another. I also maintain that community exists among all communities involved in a process of community arts, not just the participants and facilitator. When community engagement and awareness are prioritized, a multi-layered approach creates the possibilities of growth, honesty, and understanding for all people involved.
ContributorsBritt, Melissa (Author) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Thesis advisor) / Vissicaro, Pegge (Committee member) / Mitchell, John (Committee member) / Woodson, Stephani (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010
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My intention with this project was multifaceted; my goal was to articulate in words and share through physical embodiment what dance means to me and how dance has helped shape me as an individual. In doing so, I delved into an exploration of defining dance and its role within my life and in society at large. Inspired by the black and white, silent film The Artist, I began pondering how important external elements such as music, lighting, and color are when choreographing work and furthermore sharing it with an audience. For most mainstream concert dance choreographers, these elements are an integral part of the artistic process and factor into the totality of a performance experience as a work comes into fruition. The title of my thesis, A Composition of Dance, is a play on words in my attempt to challenge my own notion of dance and investigate how one's senses and environment can influence one's perception of dance from both the performer and audience perspective.
ContributorsGiordano, Erin Noele (Author) / Schupp, Karen (Thesis director) / Rex, Melissa (Committee member) / Britt, Melissa (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Nutrition and Health Promotion (Contributor) / School of Dance (Contributor)
Created2013-05
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Personal experiences with body image dysmorphia and an eating disorder necessitated that I do a thorough investigation into why they happened and why I felt this way about my body. For this project, not only was I motivated by my own struggles, but I noticed that these experiences were shared among my family, my friends, and my fellow peers in the dance community. We had been struggling since childhood. I began to realize that these behaviors and thought patterns were manifestations of apology, an apology that women have been learning, living, and spreading since our beginnings. Why do women apologize? How does this apology affect how we view, treat, and navigate our bodies in space? In what ways can dance be the mechanism by which we remove apology and individually and collectively find joy, freedom, and liberation? Not only was I interested in understanding the ‘why’, but I was deeply interested in finding a solution. Research for this thesis came from written materials, stories that the dancers and I shared, and choreographic research in the body. The final goal was to create a community-based performance of dance, spoken word, and storytelling that demonstrated the findings from each of those questions and catalyzed a conversation about how we can liberate ourselves. We used rehearsals to explore our own experiences within apology and shame, while also exploring how the ways in which we practice being unapologetic in the dance space can translate to how we move through the world on a daily basis.
Through a deep analysis and application of Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology, I discovered that apology is learned. We learn how to apologize through body shame, the media, family/generational trauma, and government/law/policy. This apology is embodied through gestures, movement patterns, and postures, such as bowing the head, hunching the shoulders, and walking around others. Apology causes us to view our bodies as things to be manipulated, discarded, and embarrassed by. After recognizing why we apologize and how it affects our bodies, we can then begin to think of how to remove it. Because the body the site of the problem, it is also the site of the solution. Dance gives us an opportunity to deeply learn our bodies, to cultivate their power, and to heal from their traumas. By being together in community as women, we are able to feel seen and supported as we work through uncharted territory of being free from apology in these bodies. By dancing in ways that allow us to take up space, to be free, to be unapologetic, we use dance as a practice for life. Through transforming ourselves, we begin to transform the world and rewrite the narrative of how we exist in and move through our bodies as women.
Through a deep analysis and application of Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology, I discovered that apology is learned. We learn how to apologize through body shame, the media, family/generational trauma, and government/law/policy. This apology is embodied through gestures, movement patterns, and postures, such as bowing the head, hunching the shoulders, and walking around others. Apology causes us to view our bodies as things to be manipulated, discarded, and embarrassed by. After recognizing why we apologize and how it affects our bodies, we can then begin to think of how to remove it. Because the body the site of the problem, it is also the site of the solution. Dance gives us an opportunity to deeply learn our bodies, to cultivate their power, and to heal from their traumas. By being together in community as women, we are able to feel seen and supported as we work through uncharted territory of being free from apology in these bodies. By dancing in ways that allow us to take up space, to be free, to be unapologetic, we use dance as a practice for life. Through transforming ourselves, we begin to transform the world and rewrite the narrative of how we exist in and move through our bodies as women.
ContributorsWaller, Marguerite Lilith (Author) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Thesis director) / Britt, Melissa (Committee member) / Lerman, Liz (Committee member) / Dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts (Contributor) / School of Film, Dance and Theatre (Contributor, Contributor) / School of Social Transformation (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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The ASU School of Dance presents School of Dance LIVE!, September 7-9, with works by dance faculty, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsPinholster, Jacob (Director) / Koch, Carolyn (Artistic director, Production manager, Lighting designer) / Swayze, William (Musician, Performer, Composer) / Jones, Ben (Performer) / Mack, Austen (Performer) / Ortego, Garrett (Performer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer, Creator) / Burk, Ashley (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor, Performer) / Arredondo, Julia (Performer) / Groom, Léla (Performer) / Giordano, Erin (Performer) / Bouey, Billie-Joe "J." (Performer) / Bartholomew, Jessica (Performer) / Chapman, Eric (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / Peterson, Haley (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / Vissicaro, Pegge (Collaborator deprecated, use Contributor)) / Mitchell, John D. (Designer, Musician) / Standley, Eileen (Designer, Choreographer, Performer) / Kyriakides, Yannis (Composer) / Tomooka, Kayla (Performer) / Waitz, Jessica (Performer) / McNutt, Eden (Costume designer, Performer) / DeWitt, Inertia (Musician, Performer) / Murphey, Claudia (Director, Interviewer) / Mumford, Jessica (Videographer, Editor) / Britt, Melissa (Choreographer, Costume designer, Performer) / Alvarez, Emily (Musician) / Salcido, Alejandro (Lighting designer) / Calleros, Vince (Performer) / Dimmick, Saza (Performer) / Granado, Michaela (Performer) / Kusch, Liz (Performer) / Lopez, Cassidy (Performer) / Kaplan, Rob (Composer, Performer) / Rex, Melissa S. (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Technical director) / Bocchino, Corinne (Performer, Performer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer, Creator) / Cooper, Carol (Performer) / Crissman, Angel (Performer) / Bouey, J (Performer) / Bouey, Majee (Performer) / Bouey, Najee (Performer) / Matthews, Emily (Performer) / Vago, Haley (Performer) / Witzke, Nikki (Performer) / Goodson, Naomi (Performer) / Levin, Felicia (Performer) / Gonzales, Anthony (Performer) / Hughs, Haylee (Performer) / Ling, Amanda (Performer) / Pourzal, Kristopher K. Q. (Performer) / Munoz, Jessica (Performer) / Peterson, Britta (Performer) / Poto, Ana Maria (Performer) / Rickert, Austin (Performer) / Schupp, Karen (Director, Costume designer, Performer) / McMahon Ward, Frances (Editor) / Khoilian, Jarek (Cinematographer) / Heath, Jason (Musician) / Page, Martin (Composer) / Fairweather, Brian (Composer) / Thornton, Trevor (Composer) / Richardson, Chris (Composer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer, Performer) / Ford, Lindsey (Performer) / Garibay, Elissa (Performer) / Barrett, Kristen (Performer) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Musician)
Created2012
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The ASU School of Dance presents The Dance Annual, April 15-17, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
ContributorsPellegrino, Laura (Choreographer, Editor, Costume designer, Performer, Dancer) / Ullom, Kathryn (Costume designer, Performer) / Rodriguez, Juan (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Performer, Costume designer) / Bouey, BJ (Lighting designer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Burke, Ashley (Performer) / Laney, Echo (Performer) / Levin, Felicia (Performer, Dancer) / Groom, Léla (Performer) / Sykes, Cleo (Performer) / Kelly, Anthony James (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Performer) / Angkham, Veng David (Performer) / Codina, Tessa (Performer) / Cooper, Hannah (Performer) / Konzal, Michaela (Performer) / Schneider, Samantha (Performer) / Hillerby, Rebecca Blair, Penelope Salt (Choreographer, Performer, Dancer) / Bedford, Crystal (Performer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Kosowski, Jenna (Choreographer) / Wrobel, Tara, Georgina Bliss (Lighting designer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Performer, Dancer) / Zuccola, Renee (Performer) / Wall-MacLane, Laurel (Choreographer, Performer) / Chapman, Eric (Performer, Costume designer) / Gonzales, Anthony (Performer, Dancer) / Brown, Alyssa (Performer, Dancer) / Karr, Mandi (Performer, Dancer) / McHale, Samantha (Performer) / Mayes, Paige (Performer, Costume designer) / Myers, III, J. Ivory (Performer) / Tamez, Laura (Performer, Costume designer) / Wilcox, Madeline (Performer) / Mitchell, John (Performer) / Standley, Eileen (Performer) / Page, Monica (Performer) / Yuen, Priscilla (Performer) / Duarte, Cristian (Choreographer) / Koch, Carolyn (Lighting designer) / Ford, Mary (Performer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Gersony, Alyssa (Performer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Millizer, Emily (Performer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Waugh, Whitney, Foxy McGillicutty (Performer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Zakrewski, Emily, Pennelopi Lawson (Performer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Britt, Melissa (Choreographer) / Castro, Angel (Lighting designer) / Lerma, Miguel (Choreographer, Costume designer, Performer) / Spranger, Emily (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Vining, Robin (Composer) / Trujillo, Davey (Lighting designer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Set designer, Lighting designer) / Fletcher, Kasey (Dancer) / Ferrell, Rebecca A. (Choreographer, Costume designer, Dancer) / Hull, Scott (Sound designer) / Raviotta, Todd A. (Sound designer) / Ling, Amanda, Blair Ellis (Performer, Dancer) / Barnard, Ashley (Dancer) / Bocchino, Corinne (Dancer) / Bouey, J (Dancer) / Montoya, Reyna (Dancer)
Created2011
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The ASU School of Dance presents Elina's LINEage, September 19-21, with works by Elina Mooney and Cliff Keuter, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsAmmerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Basting, Samantha (Dancer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Set designer, Costume designer) / Britt, Melissa (Dancer) / Canto, Melissa (Dancer) / Davis, Paul (Set designer, Costume designer) / Gonzales, Casey (Dancer) / Keuter, Cliff (Choreographer, Costume designer, Artist) / Lundell, Eva (Musician) / Martinez, Brandt (Dancer) / McDowell, John Herbert (Composer) / McGloin, Aaron (Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Set designer, Costume designer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer, Dancer) / Naimark, Steven (Musician) / Nuber, Gregory (Dancer) / Radcliffe, Elisa (Dancer) / Rockmaker, Jody (Composer) / Teachout, Kim (Musician) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher)
Created2008
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The ASU School of Dance presents Lyric Reflections, November 15-18, with works by dance faculty, undergraduates, graduates, and visiting artists, performed at Galvin Playhouse Theatre.
ContributorsHergerber Institute School of Dance (Publisher) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Bernard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Britt, Melissa (Dancer) / Burnett, Cherie (Dancer) / DeBoer, Andrew (Musician) / Doherty, Kelley (Dancer) / Dostal, Michael (Lighting designer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer) / Harriosn, Christina (Dancer) / Ingalls, Todd (Composer) / Kirwan, Molly (Dancer) / Kroon, Anjuli (Dancer) / Lee, Yeongwen (Dancer) / Limon, Jose (Choreographer) / Ma, Shouze (Choreographer, Dancer) / Malan-McDonald, Sara Jean (Dancer) / Manners, Robin (Dancer) / Manus, Nicole (Dancer) / Mapes, Aileen (Choreographer, Conductor, Dancer) / McHale, Samantha (Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer, Set designer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer) / Mumford, Jessica (Dancer) / Norman, Katie (Musician) / Ouper, Jeffery (Composer) / Raymond, Kelley (Musician) / Rockmaker, Jody (Composer) / Schupp, Karen (Choreographer) / Shipley, Samantha (Dancer) / Spenceley, Jenni (Dancer) / Stein, Derek (Musician) / Sephens, Jr. Sanny (Dancer) / Tomlinson, Charles (Costume designer) / Tovson, Kristin (Dancer) / Trujillo, David (Dancer) / Vessey, Julia (Dancer) / Watt, Nina (Director) / Wernsman, David (Dancer) / Williams, LaShonda L. (Dancer) / Wooldridge, Holly (Dancer)
Created2007
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The ASU School of Dance presents Transition Projects I, February 13-15, with works by dance faculty and undergraduate students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
ContributorsAmmerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Britt, Melissa (Choreographer) / Caban, Francesco Gabrial (Choreographer, Videographer) / Caban, Fred (Videographer) / Felix, Steven (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer) / Frey, Callie (Dancer) / Hauk, Chelsey (Dancer, Costume designer) / Howe, Martha E. (Choreographer) / Koch, Carolyn (Lighting designer) / Kozulla, Ashle (Dancer) / Manners, Robin (Dancer) / McHale, Samantha (Dancer) / McNamara, Caitlyn (Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Millizer, Emily (Dancer) / Myers, Molly (Dancer) / Peck, Hutton (Dancer) / Pelegrino, Laura (Dancer) / Perez, Larisa (Choreographer, Dancer) / Ramey, Jenna (Dancer) / Razey, Jenna (Dancer) / Roses-Thema, Cynthia (Choreographer) / Sapienze, Angelo (Videographer) / Smith, Chelsea (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Spenceley, Jenni (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer) / Trujillo, David (Lighting designer) / Walker, Morgan (Videographer) / Wilcox, Madeline (Dancer) / Williams, LaShonda L. (Choreographer, Costume designer, Set designer) / Zakrzewski, Emily (Dancer) / Herberger Institute of Dance School (Publisher)
Created2009
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The ASU School of Dance presents Transition Projects I, February 18-19, with works by dance faculty and undergrad students, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
ContributorsSchupp, Karen (Choreographer) / Vining, Robin (Composer) / Karr, Mandi (Performer, Costume designer) / Zakrzewski, Emily (Performer, Costume designer) / Brown, Alyssa (Performer, Choreographer, Costume designer) / McHale, Samantha (Performer, Performer, Costume designer) / Porter, Mary Lane (Performer, Performer, Costume designer) / Wilcox, Madeline (Performer) / Zuccola, Renee (Performer) / Kosowski, Jenna (Choreographer) / Wrobel, Tara (Performer, Lighting designer, Choreographer, Costume designer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Trujillo, Davey (Lighting designer) / Barrett, Kristen (Performer, Costume designer) / Konzal, Michaela (Performer, Costume designer) / Liew, Cassidy (Performer, Costume designer) / Meyers, Molly (Performer, Costume designer) / Steinken, Brigette (Performer, Costume designer) / Wernsman, David (Performer, Costume designer) / Burns-McDowell, Cheri (Choreographer, Costume designer) / Fehser, Janelle Paris (Performer, Costume designer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Choreographer) / Britt, Melissa (Choreographer) / Castro, Angel (Lighting designer) / Mayes, Paige (Costume designer, Performer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / LoSasso, Sarah (Performer) / Myers, III, J. Ivory (Performer) / Tamez, Laura (Performer)
Created2011
ContributorsPopham, Deborah (Performer) / Cheng, Anny (Performer) / Gardner, Joshua (Performer) / Britt, Melissa (Performer) / Chavarria, Kimberly (Performer) / Massiah, Monique (Performer) / Williams, Lashonda (Choreographer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2008-04-03