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“Loose Lace Baby” is a multimedia creative project that includes the creation of a song, a music video, and cover art. The project began with the songwriting process, which became the inspiration for the video concept. The final cover art is based on the themes and aesthetics of the song and video combined. This project’s purpose was to explore the creative process across multiple media forms and how those forms can work to inspire and enhance one another. The first stage of the project was the songwriting and recording stage. The song is a simple love song about feeling insecure in a relationship and is centered on the metaphor of “tripping over loose shoelaces”. The process in this stage included creative idea exchange, songwriting, music production, and research in different methods of song creation. This portion of the project was then used to inspire the second stage, which was the music video. The music video is about a young boy’s first major crush and follows him on his journey to tell her how he feels, which ultimately ends poorly for him, but goes to show that love can be a divisive but also binding force. The caveat to this boy’s crush is that it ends up being his babysitter, who is much older than him and therefore does not reciprocate his feeling despite having a meaningful connection of a different nature with him. This portion of the project involved many elements, namely using sound as a source of inspiration for moving visual art, production and design, learning about camera work, directing, scripting, screenplay, acting, editing, and most of all, collaboration. Finally, Once these stages of the project came together, the final stage was to draw on the core ideas of the two to create a piece of cover art that represented the messages from both the song and the music video, cohesively binding the multiple media forms into one final product. This stage involved photography, image editing, and pulling from the two other media forms to create a cohesive representative image The final product is a music video and song that are approximately four minutes long each, and a single cover art image. The main software used for music production was Ableton Live. The camera used was a Sony A6300 and the main video editing software used was Adobe Premiere. Many learning outcomes were reached, including multiple filming and editing techniques, video production and the work that goes into organizing and directing a film project, music production methods such as vocal recording and processing, live instrument recording, song arrangement and the use of a Digital Audio Workstation for production and mixing. An in-depth analysis of the entire process is given in detail in the following pages.
"Loose Lace Baby" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5uPf7Psht8&feature=youtu.be
"Loose Lace Baby" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5uPf7Psht8&feature=youtu.be
ContributorsMazaheri, Thaddeus Mohammed (Author) / Kaplan, Robert (Thesis director) / Ganssle, Gene (Committee member) / Caves, Larry (Committee member) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor) / School of Sustainability (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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While growing up, I was placed into dance classes, dance started out as a hobby, but as I grew up it became a way for me to escape from the struggles life itself brings. While I was taking a dance culture class at Arizona State University, I stumbled across research that revealed that dance does not just help people like myself, but it also has the ability to help those with more difficult life-altering situations like Parkinson’s Disease. With having about 970 million adults aged 65 years old and up (United Nations), around 10-million of these individuals have Parkinson’s Disease (PD) (Parkinson’s New Today). With these large numbers, Parkinson’s is the second leading neurodegenerative disease worldwide (Parkinson’s News Today) behind Alzheimer’s. Parkinson’s is a motor system disorder that affects the production of dopamine in one’s brain (Harvard). With the current treatment of PD being medication as well as surgical therapy based on the severity of each patient (Parkinson’s Foundation), there is one form of treatment that has been tested but not certified, partnership dancing. The way that partnership dance benefits those with Parkinson’s Disease is by using many areas of the brain to facilitate dopamine production. The four main areas used are the motor cortex, the somatosensory, the basal ganglia, and lastly the cerebellum (Harvard). With the vast amount of existing research, as well as the information gained through secondary research, I feel as though there needs to be a study to open the development of partnership dance as a therapy modality for those with many of the forms of degenerative mental diseases. Although unable to put on this research, I have outlined what this study could look like to be continued in the hopes of having partnership dance become a certified form of therapy for those with Parkinson’s Disease.
ContributorsMillar, Cayla Briann (Author) / Caves, Larry (Thesis director) / Kaplan, Robert (Committee member) / Department of Marketing (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05
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The ASU School of Dance presents Poetry Both Fierce and Fragile: Spring Concert, April 19-22, with works by guest artists, dance faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
ContributorsMesman, Travis (Choreographer, Dancer) / Coltrane, Ravi (Musician, Performer) / Perdomo, Luis (Performer) / Gress, Drew (Performer) / Strickland, E.J. (Performer) / Benard, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Sandstrom, Philip W. (Lighting designer) / Nagrin, Daniel (Director) / Tovson, Kristin (Choreographer) / Basting, Samantha (Dancer) / Malan-McDonald, Sara (Dancer) / Mapes, Aileen (Dancer) / Keuter, Cliff (Choreographer, Set designer, Costume designer) / Kaplan, Robert (Musician) / Parish, Sara (Costume designer, Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Lighting designer, Set designer, Technical director) / Moses, Robert (Choreographer) / Branca, Glenn (Musician) / Cardoza, Alicia (Dancer) / Howe, Martha E. (Dancer) / Massiah, Monique (Dancer) / Doherty, Kelley (Dancer) / Harrison, Christina (Dancer, Performer) / Mooney, Elina (Choreographer, Artistic director) / Ettinger, John (Musician) / Hester, Michael (Musician) / Smith, J. B. (Musician) / Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald (Dancer) / Ma, Shouze (Dancer) / Limon, Jose (Choreographer) / Kodaly, Zoltan (Musician) / Watt, Nina (Director) / Lee, Ming Cho (Costume designer, Set designer) / McGloin, Aaron (Performer) / Balderamma, Andrew (Performer) / Baum, Doug (Performer) / Johnson, George (Performer, Performer) / McNamara, Caitlyn (Performer) / Sheldrick, Sarah (Performer) / Spondello, Alison (Performer) / Grabionowski, Nicole (Performer) / Hancock, Whitney (Performer) / Hauk, Chelsey (Performer) / Kosowski, Jenna (Performer) / Wooldridge, Holly (Performer) / Evans, Laura (Performer) / Mollicone, Karissa (Performer) / Felix, Steven (Performer) / Trujillo, Davey (Performer) / Bormann, Megan (Performer) / Clegg, Brittany (Performer) / DeVries, Debbie (Performer) / Sakolsky-Basquill, Lydia (Performer) / Schwab, Katies (Performer) / Koch, Carolyn (Production manager) / Swayze, William (Sound designer)
Created2007
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The ASU School of Dance presents New Dance Works 1, October 11 - 14, with works by dance MFA candidates Christina Harrison, Nicole Manus, and Emily Wright, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre.
ContributorsHerberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Lighting designer, Set designer) / Babcock, Jacqueline (Costume designer) / Basting, Samantha (Designer) / Bauer, Lindsey (Dancer) / Downes, Erica (Dancer) / Franco, Amanda (Dancer) / Harrison, Christina (Choreographer, Dancer, Set designer, Lighting designer) / Helms-Tillery, Stephen (Musician) / Howe, Martha E. (Dancer) / Kaplan, Robert (Sound designer) / Kelley, Jean (Dancer) / Kerr, Beverly (Dancer) / Koch, Carolyn (Lighting designer) / Malan-McDonald, Sarah Jean (Dancer) / Manus, Nicole (Choreographer, Dancer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Mumford, Jessica (Dancer) / Parish, Sara (Costume designer) / Richman, Jordan (Musician) / Ross, Janie D. (Dancer) / Schupp, Karen (Choreographer) / Tovoson, Kristin (Dancer) / Trujillo, David (Dancer) / Vessey, Julia A. (Dancer) / Wooldridge, Holly (Dancer) / Wright, Emily (Choreographer, Dancer, Videographer) / Yanez, Avery (Dancer)
Created2007
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The ASU School of Dance presents Nova, A New Trajectory, September 20-23, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at Galvin Playhouse Theatre and Plaza.
ContributorsHerberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher) / Abruzzi, Lucio (Dancer) / Bernard, Jaqueline (Costume designer) / Bingle, Meghan (Dancer) / Brown, Bilbob (Choreographer) / Case, Babs (Choreographer) / Chow, Lisa R. (Costume designer, Dancer) / Doherty, Kelley (Dancer) / Fabian, Matt (Lighting designer) / Fernandes, Aroldo (Dancer) / Gomez, Liliana (Dancer) / Green, Amy (Dancer) / Happel, Nancy (Dancer) / Hauk, Chelsey (Dancer) / Jewell, Lauren (Dancer) / Kaplan, Robert (Composer) / Kim, Min (Choreographer, Dancer, Lighting designer, Costume designer) / Koch, Carolyn (Lighting designer) / Koeppel, Alex (Dancer) / Kosowski, Jenna (Dancer) / Lathrop, Cerrin (Dancer) / Livingston, Kelsey (Dancer) / Ludwig, Ann (Choreographer) / Ma, Shouze (Dancer) / McCaskill, Katie (Dancer) / McGloin, Aaron (Choreographer, Lighting designer, Dancer, Costume designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Raptis, Step (Dancer) / Roth, Kelly (Choreographer) / Schupp, Karen (Choreographer, Dancer) / Spenceley, Jenni (Dancer) / Wajih, Sonja (Dancer) / Walker, Jennifer (Dancer) / Wu, Jia (Dancer)
Created2007
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The ASU School of Dance presents The Moving Picture, April 23, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists performed at Gammage Auditorium.
A recording of dances performed at a rehearsal performance on April 23, 1997. A fixed position camera shot of the entire stage was used for the recording.
ContributorsAllen, Heidi M. (Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Technical director) / Bonar, Luara (Dancer) / Burg, Jackie (Dancer) / Burns-McDowell, Cherie (Dancer) / Campbell, Sharon (Dancer) / Darsow, Fred (Dancer) / Davis-Larson, Paula (Costume designer) / Fitzgerald, Mary (Stage manager, Dancer) / Gonzales, Feliciano (Dancer) / Goodstone, Jason (Dancer) / Gray, Lauren (Dancer) / Grubel, Barbara (Dancer) / Hale, Harry (Technical director) / Heimann, Hope (Dedicatee) / Herrman, Amy (Dancer) / Hooper, K. C. (Technical director) / Hummasti, Saru (Dancer) / Jimenez, Candy (Dancer) / Jones, Marion Kirk (Artistic director) / Kaplan, Robert (Musical director) / Keuter, Matthew (Dancer) / Lara, Christeena (Choreographer, Dancer) / Levin, Rebecca (Choreographer, Dancer) / Long, Ron (Dancer) / Longmire-Davis, Wendy (Dancer) / Ludwig, Stephanie (Dancer) / Malec, Mariah (Dancer) / Manville-Kuponoff, Holly (Dancer) / Muldoon, Kelly (Stage manager, Dancer) / Nichols, Lisa (Dancer) / Nored, Jeff (Technical director) / O'Donnell, Tim (Dancer) / Parlon, Tommy (Choreographer, Dancer) / Pavicevac, Sonja (Dancer) / Pischke, Jennifer (Dancer) / Scafaria, Michelle (Dancer) / Schalk, Meghan (Dancer) / St. Clair, Summer (Dancer) / Susee, Leilani (Dancer) / Swayze, Bill (Sound designer) / Wallace, James (Choreographer, Costume designer, Lighting designer, Dancer) / White, Matt (Dancer) / Woolf, Cecily (Dancer) / Wu, Jia-Rong (Dancer) / Herberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher)
Created1997
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The ASU School of Dance presents Emerging Artists I, November 20-22, with works by dance MFA candidates Sammy Stephens, Jr. and LaShonda L. Williams, performed at the Dance Lab, FAC 122.
ContributorsHerberger Institute School of Dance (Publisher) / Vissicaro, Pegge (Choreographer) / Stephens, Jr., Sammy (Dancer, Choreographer, Composer) / Williams, Lashonda (Dancer, Choreographer, Costume designer, Set designer) / Mihaleva, Galina (Costume designer) / Church, Micaela (Dancer, Musician) / Croitoru, Michael (Dancer) / Fletcher, Kasey (Dancer) / Frost, Randi (Dancer) / Hood, Brittany (Dancer) / Millizer, Emily (Dancer, Musician) / Newman, Emily (Dancer) / Richards, Brittany (Dancer) / Zakrzewski, Emily (Dancer) / Ammerman, Mark C. (Set designer) / Davis, Omilade (Musician, Dancer) / Kaplan, Robert (Composer) / Benard, Jaqueline (Costume designer) / Castro, Angel (Dancer) / Gillie, Randy (Dancer) / Gonzalez, Anthony (Dancer) / Mayes, Paige (Dancer) / Schneider, Samantha (Dancer) / Wrobel, Tara (Dancer) / Aguirre, Alex (Dancer) / Nuvayestewa, Lorin (Dancer)
Created2009
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For my senior undergraduate thesis, I created a self-exploration project to understand stress management. The Alexander Technique, created by F.M. Alexander, is an educational “hands-on” awareness practice that has spurred variations since its inception (Gelb, 2003). Primal AlexanderTM (PATM), a variation of the Alexander technique developed by Mio Morales, is taught on online platforms, chiefly Zoom and other equivalent video communication. PATM shares with the traditional teachings of the Alexander Technique that learning the practice has many benefits – one of these benefits being effective internal stress management. After being introduced to Primal AlexanderTM by Faculty Honors Advisor Robert Kaplan of Arizona State University, I began researching stress management while also practicing Primal AlexanderTM. Considering that nearly half of U.S adults report that stress has a negative effect on their health, it is fair to assume that properly managing stress in individuals continues to be a major obstacle in healthcare (SingleCare, 2022). My personal afflictions that were a result of stress were beginning to affect my mental, emotional, and physical states of health. Learning PATM inspired my support for clinical application of the practice as a stress management technique as I recognized changes within my body that suggested effective, internal stress management.
ContributorsErhardt, Cassandra (Author) / Kaplan, Robert (Thesis director) / Sidman, Cara (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School for the Future of Innovation in Society (Contributor) / The Sidney Poitier New American Film School (Contributor) / College of Health Solutions (Contributor)
Created2022-05
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Individual artists are capable of deeply impacting the communities in which they practice, leading to cultural development, exchange, and understanding. This impact is sometimes leveraged by nations as cultural diplomacy. Through the lens of cultural diplomacy, this document traces the development of Spanish dance in the Phoenix Valley from 1947 through the end of the 20th century by examining the careers of four international Spanish-dance artists who settled in Arizona; Adelino “Eddie” Fernandez, Lydia Torea, Laura Moya, and Dini Román. Each of these artists connected Arizona to a larger national and international dance community and their influence is felt to this day in the cultural diversity of the Phoenix Valley. The document concludes by describing the exhibit and performances that were built around this research and exploring how this research, and the author’s experience coalesce to reveal how Spanish dance––and more broadly percussive dance––is embraced in local culture, but sometimes experiences a marginalized status in post-secondary education. The author shares how ASU professors inspired her to advocate for inclusion of percussive dance in the Master of Fine Arts program, reveals the historical forces that influence its exclusion, shares personal experiences to illustrate the realities faced by dancers in the academy, and comes full circle in the realization that her advocacy, the positive change it enacted, and this very project are a direct result of these four artists’ influence and are examples of cultural diplomacy in action.
ContributorsChacon, Julie Elizabeth (Author) / Kaplan, Robert (Thesis advisor) / Underiner, Tamara (Committee member) / Roses-Thema, Cynthia (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
ContributorsKaplan, Robert (Composer)