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Strain-Bell, Sheila L. "Organizational conflict : in a performing arts organization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77674.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.<br>MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.<br>Bibliography: leaves 161-165.<br>by Sheila L. Strain-Bell.<br>M.C.P.

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Le, Thi Kieu Huong. "Performing Arts Management in a Climate of Adjustment: Case Studies from Vietnam and Australia." School of Policy and Practice, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1115.

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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)<br>This thesis investigates performing arts administration and management in the current economic and social environment in Vietnam and Australia within a context of globalisation. A comparative study of two major arts organisations in both Vietnam and Australia was carried out to investigate the following: why and how performing arts organisations are adapting to the changing environment; how arts leaders are adapting to changes; and whether arts managers need specific arts management training. The suitability of pertinent training packages and tertiary arts manageme

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Paley, Sky Matthew Riel. "Theatrical Spaces as Platforms for Resistance and Revolt| The History of St. Croix and Its Present-Day Predicament through the Lens of the Play Antiman." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10784929.

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<p> This thesis explores the ways in which Caucasian theatre makers can become more effective educators and directors in diverse student populations. By drawing attention to their “whiteness” and overcoming the fear of being implicated in the subjugation of these student populations, Caucasian theatre makers can instead embrace this implication and thereby transform classrooms and theatrical spaces from static appreciations of sovereignty and beauty, into platforms for resistance and revolt. In this thesis, I interrogate my own process in the direction of my multi-actor, undergradu

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Reynoso, Humberto. "Performing Binaries." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/252.

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I take a critical view of sociopolitical and cultural issues dealing with homoeroticism andgay politics. I explore gender theories in order to further understand what it means to bemasculine or feminine and how it affects my placement in society. I use art as a tool forexpressing sexual freedom while questioning traditional sexual identity. I'm interested in exploring ideas of the oppressor and the oppressed, and how power becomes an inevitable force (in every society) that creates a hierarchy, consequently establishing control. But what is power? According to various definitions, power is an

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Xiao, Yan. "Exploring the Intricacies of International Performing Arts Exchange: Case Studies of Arts Programs between U.S. and China." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1575479293045226.

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Merrill, Jean Collins. "Eureka: A gold rush play integrating the performing arts into elementary social studies curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2566.

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The purpose of this project is two-fold. The first purpose is to explore the benefits of incorporating the arts in the education of all students. Incorporating the arts into other curricular areas enhances learning and makes it more meaningful to the student. The second purpose is to develop a performance program that brings the California Gold Rush era and the cultural diversity of that period of history alive.

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Widmer, T. K. "Performing Transition: Depictions of the Transgender Experience." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/362.

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Minority groups have long faced a lack of representation in the entertainment industry. Too often when representation does exist it relied on stereotype and convention. This too is often the fate of transgender individuals when they are depicted on the screen and stage. The majority of film and television depictions of transgender individuals are inadequate. When they are depicted at all the portrayals rarely rise above trope, archetypes, and conventions. Most often the identity of the transgender individual is invalidated. Very rarely are transgender people’s identities supported. This thesis

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Kim, Hyemin. "Introduction to Chung Gil Kim's "Go Poong" with emphasis on pedagogical studies." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705850.

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<p> This treatise will address the late twentieth-century and well-known Korean composer Chung Gil Kim's piano work <i>Go Poong</i> (Memories of Childhood; 1981) as a case study on how to make pedagogical use of works intended for performance. <i>Go Poong</i> is purely a programmatic composition intended to create a musical picture of four items in Korean cultural history including: a temple incense jar, a wooden shoe, a jade hairpin, and a paper window patch. The piece is also capable of functioning as an ideal pedagogical tool for intermediate and early-advanced players to experience technic

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Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth. "The influence of Japanese traditional performing arts on Tennessee Williams's late plays." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4656.

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Correro, Augustine III. "Performing Tennessee Williams." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2713.

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This thesis is dedicated to illustrating the unique challenges of staging works by the playwright Tennessee Williams, and to making suggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls in production, performance, and direction of his plays. It uses evidence from the playwright’s various biographical works as well as insight and conjecture from the author’s experience to illuminate these challenges and help the reader to avoid hackneyed or ineffective staging practices. It touches on the effect of film adaptations on stage performances; the typical portrayal of American Southern characters onstage; the

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Bell, Melissa Hudson. "Audience Engagement in San Francisco's Contemporary Dance Scene| Forging Connections Through Food." Thesis, University of California, Riverside, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3630649.

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<p> This dissertation looks at critical interventions made by select San Francisco bay area choreographers and dance programmers interested in altering spectatorial norms for contemporary dance. Those selected have strategically employed food themes and materials in and as performance, simultaneously tapping into existing foodie ideology and redressing concerns about dwindling audiences for live dance performance in the twenty-first century. I argue that such efforts 1) bring to light subsumed race, class, and gender politics embedded in the trend towards "audience engagement," espoused by art

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Stubblefield, Shannon. "The nude female performer." Thesis, Mills College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1562505.

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<p>A live nude female performer can occupy a powerful identity equal to a man because she willingly places herself in front of an audience. She commits to this state of profound vulnerability as a means of gaining ownership of her body that men by virtue of their power in society take for granted. The female body occupies physical space, unlike how a body image seen on a television or in a magazine does. The actuality of the live female nude creates a transformation from the purely sexualized body to an authentic female nude body. This authentic female nude body, via her control of her physica

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Karlstrom, Sigrid. "Three Women Composers and Their Works for Viola and Piano| Marion Bauer, Miriam Gideon, and Vivian Fine and the Trajectory of Female Tradition in American Music." Thesis, University of Hartford, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10982811.

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<p> The lives and careers of the three women composers Marion Bauer (1882-1955), Miriam Gideon (1906-1996), and Vivian Fine (1913-2000) spanned more than a century. Each wrote works for viola and piano, including Bauer's Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 22, Gideon's Sonata for Viola and Piano, and Fine's <i> Lieder for Viola and Piano.</i> Together, these composers' careers encompass a number of important trends in the professional development of the twentieth century woman composer in the United States. </p><p> Women composers were hindered in their advancement and acknowledgement for a numb

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Long, Lingqian. "Han Opera as a Public Institution in Modern Wuhan." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283306.

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<p> Wuhan Han Opera Theater (WHOT, formerly Han Opera) is a 400-year old regional opera based in Wuhan, in Hubei Province, in China. WHOT’s recent designation as a <i>public institution</i> under China’s neoliberal creative economy initiative to enter the global market has necessitated its transformation from a <i>cultural institution</i> (<i> wenhua jigou</i>) into a <i>creative industry</i> (<i> wehua chanye</i>). As such, WHOT must now create adaptive strategies, alter traditional conventions of performance, infrastructure, education and community presence, reconstitute traditio

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Caldognetto, Samuele Francesco. "STRANGESPACES : Studies and structure for an itinerant transcultural performing art festival." Thesis, Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för scenkonst, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-993.

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The purpose of this study is to explain the process of designing the architecture of StrangeSpaces, an itinerant festival for transcultural performing arts groups or artists which starts from the original idea and terminates with the description of a possible structure. The process of designing StrangeSpaces is based on an investigation on the transcultural performing art’s field and on conversations with experts, which together transformed the original general idea of a festival, into the specific architecture of the StrangeSpaces festival. The investigation resulted in a personal definition

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Caudill, Matthew A. "Learning to dance while becoming a dancer identity construction as a performing art /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001024.

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Read-Fisher, Kathryn. "One Size Fits No One: The Dramatic Truth About Size Discrimination in the Performing Arts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1023.

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American theatre and media contribute to the violent systems of thinking around size and weight and its correlation to health. The argument that correlates higher body mass to lower overall health has been continuously disproved, and yet is still used as a tool to shame and justify sizeism. Educating the general public about health and size can assist in creating new models of representation and bodies can start to reclaim the space they deserve to take up, moving beyond the societal shame they currently face. In this thesis, sizeism is explored and unpacked through careful analysis of contemp

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Southall, Sally. "Pedagogy and Performing Shakespeare's Text: A Comparative Study." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1832.

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ABSTRACT PEDAGOGY AND PERFORMING SHAKESPEARE’S TEXT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY By Sally Parrish Southall A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009 Director: Dr. Noreen C. Barnes Professor, Director of Graduate Studies School of the Arts In the Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in a second program, the Master of Letters/Master of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin Coll

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Franco, William. "Cross-cultural collaboration in New Zealand : a Chicano in Kiwi land." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/878.

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In my exegesis, I will explore the different social, political, cultural and artistic themes, influences and methods that direct my art practice. I will dissect my current work, outlining these transformations and how they impact my work here at Massey, as well as how they will continue to inspire my art practice in the future.

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Hill, Aaron. "Use Your Words| A Lyrical Guide to the Opera-Inspired Paraphrases of Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924) For Oboe and English Horn." Thesis, James Madison University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3702673.

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<p> There are currently ten available works by Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924) for solo oboe or English horn and accompaniment inspired by themes from nineteenth-century operas by Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, and Verdi. These pieces are so virtuosic that Pasculli has been dubbed the “Paganini of the Oboe.” The technical demands can be so high that performers can neglect to approach artistic and scholarly interpretation of his lyrical passages. Some editions of his music list the referenced act and scene number from the original source. No existing editions include complete text fro

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Carrillo, Julian Antonio. "La maroma| The revival of rural circus in the Mixteca, Mexico." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1553150.

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<p> The maroma in southern Mexico is an artistic performance that features acrobats as well as elements of theater, poetry, and music commonly performed by clown poets. The maroma's form and content is drawn from a mixture of medieval European street performances, pre-Hispanic indigenous acrobatic arts, and modern circus features. It is typically performed as entertainment in the context of the patronal saint fiesta, annual popular Catholic events that serve as significant spaces that furnish cultural elements for identity construction. The maroma was very popular in the capital of New Spain t

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Raver, Debra Marie. "Song weaving| The multivocal performance patterns of Lithuanian Sutartine singers." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1558015.

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<p> This thesis explores the distinct two-part polyphonic patterning in Lithuanian Sutartines to reveal how singers shape and/or experience their songs as musical weaves. The findings are based on original fieldwork as well as old ethnographic sources, which are (re)examined and interpreted through the lens of metaphor as a methodology.</p>

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Rocco, Olivia. "Ethics and Theater-Making in Contemporary America: Making and Avoiding Unnatural Disasters." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors158773070360455.

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Curtis, Jess Alan. "Knowing Bodies / Bodies of Knowledge| Eight Experimental Practitioners of Contemporary Dance." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10036148.

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<p> This dissertation addresses the concept of the <i> experimental</i> in contemporary dance and performance. In it I argue that, although the word is used in very different ways in traditional artistic and scientific practices, a number of contemporary dance artists utilize experimental practices in their work that produce useful knowledge that is recognizable and transmittable beyond the walls of the theater or gallery. I have written about artists whose embodied work has been described as experimental, whose innovations and explorations have produced paradigmatic shifts in dance practice a

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Berkowitz, Adam Eric. "Finding a Place for "Cacega Ayuwipi" within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10096024.

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<p> American Indian music and dance traditions unilaterally contain the following three elements: singing, dancing, and percussion instruments. Singing and dancing are of the utmost importance in American Indian dance traditions, while the expression of percussion instruments is superfluous. Louis W. Ballard has composed a piece of music for percussion ensemble which was inspired by the music and dance traditions of American Indian tribes from across North America. The controversy that this presents is relative to the fact that there is no American Indian tradition for a group comprised exclus

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Iadevaia, Jennifer Sarah. "Exploratory Theatre Activism| Implementing Theatre Pedagogy in Educational Landscapes." Thesis, Prescott College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10102199.

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<p> For the purposes of this thesis, I begin with an overview of theatre for social change in the introduction and then focus on the literature review as a way to introduce authors, ideas, theory and knowledge as background for the reader. This includes anecdotal accounts, reasoning for research and methodologies for carrying out research. I look at feminist theory, community-based theatre, education for liberation and decolonizing knowledge as a basis for my continuing ideas and theories. My emphasis is how to use expressive arts theatre as a way to connect people through dialogue in communit

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Rosenblum, Lauren. "The Protesting Body: Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz-Starus, and Sharon Hayes." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/196443.

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Art History<br>M.A.<br>Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz-Starus and Sharon Hayes have created public performances that respond to the socio-political conditions of their time and place, and extend the boundaries of the traditional public sphere to include feminist concerns. In their collaborative performance In Mourning and In Rage (1977), Lacy and Labowitz-Starus utilized the private, feminist practice of consciousness-raising to bring widespread visibility to the politics of the female body. Hayes' works In the Near Future (2007-09) and Everything Else Has Failed! Don't You Think It's Time for L

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Le, Roux Marlene. "There's a place for people with disabilities within the arts: Exploring how interaction with the performing arts may facilitate the social and economic inclusion of youth with disabilities." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29276.

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This study aims to explore how interaction with the performing arts could facilitate the participation of youths with disabilities in opportunities for social and economic inclusion. Equal access for all is a dream, as the world is still a disabling place, particularly for women, poor, Black and persons with a disability. As a result of this intersectionality of social identities and oppression, a lack of access to mainstream activities and opportunities remains a day-to-day reality for many persons with disabilities (Le Roux, 2015). Persons with disability yearn for the individual freedoms en

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Foraker, Robynn Marie. "Finding the Voice of Lady MacBeth ---- Voice and text work for the contemporary actor through the rehearsal and performance of Macbeth (from Shakespeare)." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1363603299.

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Alison, Brooke Turner. "Teaching and Performing Theatre for Youth Using Physical Storytelling." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3138.

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For children to enjoy theatre they must see a story played out physically. The same is true when children act. Young performers must be taught to act using a simplified version of the Stanislavski System that puts emphasis on playable action. This thesis evaluates current acting texts for youth based on whether or not the author is able to outline a method that is accessible for children, and highlights the importance of playable action in scene work. It also provides a guide to teaching theatre for youth based on a class of the author’s design where students developed curriculum, managed

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Edwards, Robert Lawrence. "A Program Evaluation of Performing Arts Instruction Used to Improve Soft Skills." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5853.

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Evidence derived from the 2012 and 2015 College Senior Surveys (CSS) noted showed that college seniors, at a historically Black university, graduated with little to average soft skills. Soft skills, such as personal characteristics and relations with others, are needed for students to succeed in postgraduate careers. The purpose of this study was to assess the level to which performing arts instruction (PAI) courses developed college-level students' soft skills. Kolb's experiential learning theory, which defines the learning process as knowledge and skills developed through experiences, and St

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Moreman, Shane T. "Performativity and the Latina/o-white hybrid identity performing the textual self /." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001101.

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Roll, Christianne Knauer. "Female musical theater belting in the 21st century| A study of the pedagogy of the vocal practice and performance." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3621794.

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<p> The female musical theater belt voice has been heard onstage for almost one hundred years, yet the demands for this type of singing continue to evolve. While the style dominates Broadway, an understanding of successful teaching of the female belt voice seems to be lacking. Therefore, this study was undertaken to appropriately address the needs of female musical theater singers, and to establish effective strategies for teaching the female belt voice.</p><p> Individual case studies of four nationally recognized master teachers of female belting were created from observations in the stud

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Brewster, Shelby Elizabeth. "Resisting the Body Invasion: Critical Art Ensemble, Tactical Media, and the Audience." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437149634.

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Chang, Chia-fen. "Grotowski in Taiwan| More than objective drama." Thesis, New York University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10191960.

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<p> In Taiwan’s experimental theatre, the “Grotowski phenomenon” is too prominent to be ignored. The “Grotowski method,” as it is called in Taiwan, has nurtured a generation of experimental theatre workers ever since the mid-1980s. In this dissertation I will investigate the entire picture of how the Grotowski-to-Taiwan transmission began. This investigation begins with the American encounter between the Polish exile and two Taiwanese overseas students in the Objective Drama Program at U.C. Irvine in 1985 – and what subsequently developed from that encounter

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Veloz, Franco. "Embodied narratives : Embodied experiences as a call for action." Thesis, Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för film och media, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-750.

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Things, spaces and people collaborate in order to create an immersive experience. This project investigates this collaboration in order to combine them for an embodied way of tell and perceive stories. Can a immersive experience help to close the gap between information and the person, the event and the story? In the following essay I am going to analyze the components that are part of the experience. I am interested in the connection between perception, memory, atmosphere and objects. Inquire how they are related and what they represent in order to tell stories with them. I try to question t

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Stjernebjerg, Christel Klan. "When Contrasts Joined The Circus : How Defying & Obeying Gravity Revitalized a Suffering Art Form Called 'Circus'." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190594.

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This Master thesis is about Western circus performance styles. It is the aim to describe, compare, and contextualise traits and tendencies of early Western circus performances (EWCP) and contemporary Western circus performances (CWCP) through academic terms. The investigation is centred around the thesis that CWCP have revitalized a suffering and almost dying art form called 'circus' – causing it to reach a new level of social and artistic acceptability in a postmodern world – mainly through the introduction of a significant stylistic feature: Identification. The feeling of a spectator's close

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Rowe, Katherine. "Childhood Development: How the Fine and Performing Arts Enhance Neurological, Social, and Academic Traits." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/464.

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Abstract Childhood development has always been a major topic when studying psychology and biology. This makes sense because the brain develops from the time a child is conceived to the time that child has reached around the age of twenty-seven. Doctors, psychologists, and sociologists look at numerous things when studying childhood development. However, how common is it for researchers to study how the fine and performing arts affect childhood development? Sociologists tend to be extremely open and mindful of all aspects of things such as culture, sexuality, religion, and even age. By taking a

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Bzura, Katherine. "I'm Not Who I Was Then, Now: Performing Identity in Girl Cams and Blogs." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001995.

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Cuskey, Lusie. "Roots in the Earth and a Flag in my Hand: Rural Gender Identity in American Musical Theatre." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20431.

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The integrated musical is a vehicle for the creation and communication of a national identity, created through the use of coded performances of gender and, at times, rural settings conceptualized as essentially “American.” There is, however, little research about the ways in which gender operates in rural settings in musical theatre, or the ways in which rural gender identities are utilized to communicate nationalist ideologies. This thesis seeks to address this gap in research by examining three contemporary American musicals – Carrie, Violet, and The Spitfire Grill – in light of both America

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Vicich, Alexandra Devin. "Therapeutic change for women in collective performance." Thesis, New York University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1549235.

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<p> This phenomenological study describes the therapeutic potential of change for women who come together in collective creative process to perform their stories. The author examines women, aged 30-72, and their experiences of collective performance, spanning 29 years, in response to their life circumstances, emotional health, personal relationships, professional life, and community connections. Roles inside and outside of the group are explored, as are their group and individual processes. Research on women, collectives, applied theatre, and therapeutic theatre is presented. Perspective i

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Cagney-Watts, Helen. "The contradictions of postmodernism : a feminist critique of postmodernism." Thesis, University of Hull, 1991. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6975.

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Chessman, David Ralph. "'In defense of the human' : the survival of moral optimism in post-war American fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 1985. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8072.

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It is widely accepted that early American literature reflects the boundless social and moral optimism of "The Great Experiment", expresses certitude in the ultimate perfectibility of man in the New World. Equally widely held is the belief that American experience in the twentieth century has prompted something of a retreat from this optimistic position, has blunted the belief in -- crudely put -- the American Dream and that this retreat has been particularly marked in American fiction since World War Two. This thesis seems to confront such assumptions about the "American Nightmare", as describ

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Rogers, Susan Elizabeth. "Embodying slavery in contemporary American literature : representations of slavery's enduring influence on women's corporeal identity in novels by Paule Marshall, Ellen Gilchrist, Ellen Douglas and Gloria Naylor." Thesis, University of Hull, 1999. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8046.

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van, Beek Hanne. "Picnic in paradise : blootstelling van een onschuldig plekje : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/949.

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The picnic blanket, as a textile object, is infused with meaning by its colonial history and its inherent use. Its purpose goes beyond providing a soft and dry surface to sit on. By putting down your picnic blanket you can temporarily stake your claim on that piece of land. We might consider the picnic blanket as a private haven in a public space. The cross-over between private and public space is a dynamic environment that is established by continually interacting and adapting. By collaborating with others in a space everyone can gain some ownership of that space. Using the picnic blanket as

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Johnson, Matthew. "An Ethnography of the Bay Area Renaissance Festival: Performing Community and Reconfiguring Gender." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3509.

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This performance ethnography analyzes the means by which performers at Tampa, Florida‘s Bay Area Renaissance Festival constitute community and gender through performance. Renaissance Festivals are themed weekend events that ostensibly seek to allow visitors to experience life in an English Renaissance village. Beginning with the theoretical assumption that performance is constitutive of culture, community, and identity, and undergirded by David Boje‘s festivalism, Richard Schechner‘s restored behavior, Victor Turner‘s liminoid communitas and Judith Butler‘s performative agency, The Festival is

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Nicosia, Matthew. "Performing the Female Superhero: An Analysis of Identity Acquisition, Violence, and Hypersexuality in DC Comics." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1476751594815625.

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Marshall, Anne. "Ngaparti-ngaparti ecologies of performance in Central Australia : comparative studies in the ecologies of Aboriginal-Australian and European-Australian performances with specific focus on the relationship of context, place, physical environment, and personal experience. /." View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040804.155726/index.html.

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Parker, Herb. "Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!: Playing the Bard for Beginners." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://www.amzn.com/0415790972.

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Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and presentational Shakespeare’s plays were meant to be performed. The plays are driven by language and the spoken word, and the themes and plots are absolutely out of the ordinary and fantastic―the very definition of outrageous. With exercises, improvisations, and coaching points, Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous! helps actors use the words Shakespeare wrote

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McKean, Kathy. "'If you sit in the dark long enough something scary's bound to happen' : the ghosts of Phyllis Nagy." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20267/.

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