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My proposed MA in American Dance Studies thesis analyzes the power and reach of the online dance world in the 21st Century. The project specifically engages with the past decade’s trend of dance spectatorship’s online presence, fueled by...
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Nearly nine years later, the city still fights to recover. Within this landscape, mustachioed men wearing sweat bands, red satin jackets, blue coach shorts, and gold tennis shoes have...
Cement skyscrapers, the smell of automobile exhaust, turned down faces of strangers. New York City during the Great Depression was at odds with the founding fathers' vision of America as a shining City Upon a Hill. Anna Sokolow's...
This study investigates what literature, drama, the visual arts, and music may reveal about the place of dance in society through the early sixteenth century. Its emphasis is on attitudes, emotions, and beliefs connected with dance, ... Dance music and manuals through the fifteenth century are examined to determine the state of scholarly consensus regarding performance practice prior to the sixteenth century. The study of musical instrumentation is shown to be a... Preaching manuals of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and other moralizing materials are surveyed for references to dance; they reveal a generally negative attitude toward dance, and specifically warn against the wiles of dancing... Literature and the visual arts from the period between 1250 and 1525 have been surveyed for references to dance. Those references illustrate the role of dance in social institutions, as entertainment, emotional expression, and... The results of the analysis and comparison among the arts reveal a rich variety of conflicting attitudes toward dance. Dance was an indispensable social skill and, at the same time, an activity dangerous for the soul.
The biographical and sociohistorical context for military and dance music in the manuscripts of Ethan Allen Hitchcock (1798-1870)
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The purpose of this treatise is to place military and dance music genres found in the music manuscript books of the Hitchcock Collection of flute music housed in the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University and the... There are nine music manuscript books in the Hitchcock Collection which are broadly representative of American musical traditions during the nineteenth century and serve as partial cultural and musicological records of pre-Civil War... Hitchcock's activities as a military officer and musician are outlined in the prose journals he recorded during the years 1816 to 1868, and the principal source for quotations from them in this treatise is the "W. A. Croffut Papers, Copy...
Igor Stravinsky's musical composition "Le Sacre du Printemps" has created an almost irresistible lure for dance choreographers since it first premiered in 1913. Most view creating their own interpretation of the music as a kind of...
This thesis compares the works of Alwin Nikolais from the decade of the 1960s with those of artists working in both the modern and postmodern dance idioms. In the study, the category of modern dance is represented by the choreographic...
College of Arts and Sciences Dancing Towards Pan-Indianism: The Development of the Grass Dance and Northern Traditional Dance in Native American Culture
Many of the dance styles found at modern Native American powwows have their roots within the Warrior Society dances that existed hundreds of years ago. Over time, the dance styles have changed and evolved. Dances have been shared between...
The overall purpose of this study is to establish the baseline for a new line of research into the effective relationship between traditional jazz musicians and swing dancers in current social dancing environments. The study is a mixed...
This piece of choreography is about the Mozart family and their twelve family values that keep them together. They display themselves in 18th century society as well as endure conflict together. The family is a beautiful dysfunction and...
The effects of visual and auditory stimuli on the movement behavior of pre-school children
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The effects of visual and auditory stimuli on the movement behavior was explored with pre-school children. 52 children, age 3 to 5 years, were divided into four groups. Each group performed a dance activity, two subjects at a time, under...
This thesis is a study of the functions of music and dance in Zumba classes held at the Forest Meadows Park community center in Tallahassee, Florida. It examines how music and dance are the generative mechanisms of communitas in this...
The world of popular culture has been shaped in many ways by the stereotypes and biases created in music videos and the dance sequences included in those music videos. Dance music videos, by artists such as Michael Jackson and Paula...
The seemingly elusive connections between a West African ceremony and a Southern blues scape is this thesis’s central focus. In Unmasking The Blues: Gẹlẹdẹ And The Creation Of Blues Alchemy, I explore the blues culture phenomena of...
During the Progressive Era (1890-1920) instructors taught gymnastic and dance practices in American settlement houses. Developed by white, educated middle-class women, settlement houses offered these classes to reflect the "progressive...
Evolution of the American performance culture between 1850-1910 was deeply rooted within broad social and cultural changes. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Henry James engage the reflective quality of performance culture to...
This thesis will describe, analyze and compare the functions of social dance and military drill among American soldiers during the Revolutionary War. These movement forms, though performed in different contexts, both contributed to the...
An investigation of the effect of block size on contextual interference
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The purposes of this study were (a) to determine whether contextual interference (CI) is viable for acquisition and retention when blocked practice is implemented within a random order, and (b) to determine what amount of repetition... Eighty-four male volunteer students enrolled in Florida State University during the 1992 summer session served as subjects for this study. They were randomly assigned to six groups. The blocked practice (BP) group practiced the circle... The results of this study provide minimal support for contextual interference. According to the theory, the random practice should help the subjects to recall more than the other groups (the blocked and combined practice), since a deeper...
This Masters in American Dance Studies thesis addresses the performance of asexual identity in the neo-burlesque performance art. With a heavy emphasis on autoethnography, I present neo-burlesque as a genre that creates space for queer...
ABSTRACT This thesis examines Urban Bush Women's contemporary dance work, HairStories, through the lens of three musical impulses as explained by ethnomusicologist Craig Werner: blues, jazz, and gospel. Werner developed this musical...
One of the most important roles of the online instructor is to insure successful teaching by keeping students' interactions and discussions focused on topic, adding knowledge and expertise, and maintaining group harmony. Therefore, the...
Bob Fosse's choreography endows women with agency and self-confidence. He explores female sexuality and empowers women through his use of androgyny, glamour, fetishism, and the urban aesthetic. In his stage and film choreographic...
The Misaligned Stars of Reality Television: Glamour, Spectatorship, the American Dream, and Sexually Identified Gender as Seen on Dancing with the Stars
Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) takes its place in the history of exhibition ballroom dancing through the avenue of reality television and competition. Relying on the nostalgic appeal of the American Dream, glamour and romance, DWTS...
This Honors in the Major Thesis explores the origins of the cancan dance by using the derivative of its stereotype as a jumping point. It identifies the cancan as an emblem of nineteenth century bohemian Paris as it embodies several...
In the past decade there has been a resurgence of experimental dance artists in the United States using nakedness—especially utilizing their own nude bodies—in choreography. In an effort to discover why this trend is reemerging now and...
This thesis examines the evolution of dance works by two Japanese-American choreographers, Eiko and Koma. Growing up in the politically turbulent 1960s in Japan, their entrance into the world of dance was motivated by philosophical...
During the Progressive Era (1890-1920) instructors taught gymnastic and dance practices in American settlement houses. Developed by white, educated middle-class women, settlement houses offered these classes to reflect the 'progressive...
I became interested in American choreographer Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite (featuring dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Elaine Kudo) when I watched a recorded performance of it while in high school. The piece is a mix of ballet and ballroom...
From the end of World War II through the 1950s, the American film industry produced many musicals, especially of the western and naval-themed variety. The iconic cowboy, frontiersman, and sailor figures in these film musicals express...
Musical change from within: A case study of "cuarteto" music from Cordoba, Argentina
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In this dissertation, the role of the individual in the decision-making processes that have led to musical evolution in cuarteto, a type of working-class popular dance music from Cordoba, Argentina, is examined through a case study of... The dissertation is divided into two parts. Part I is devoted to issues regarding the research context: an explanation of the research question, theoretical background methodology, a literature review, the history and stylistic evolution...
This study provides a historical examination of working women's relationship with social and theatrical dance in New York City during the Progressive Era. These years, between 1890 and 1920, were seminal in bringing America into the...
This study provides an analytical exploration of the embodied performance of Italian-American ethnicity in film. The analyzed performances are taken from The Godfather trilogy, Moonstruck, and Saturday Night Fever. These films provide a...
French choreographer Maurice Béjart used the third space in performance to fracture notions of fixed gender identity by removing it from facile and binary definitions. Postcolonial theorist, Homi K. Bhabha, originated the concept of a...
This thesis investigates ritual expressions of heritage and identity within a dance community, American Team Clogging. The scope of this thesis includes competitive team clogging which emerged through a spontaneous fusion of regional ...
The unique nutritional needs of dancers generate a considerable challenge for health professionals. Currently, there is a gap in knowledge about the hydration status and fluid replacement behaviors in the dancer population. The aims of...
Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois was at the forefront of the Parisian avant-garde between 1920 and 1925. The company produced twenty-four distinctive, innovative works that challenged conventions of ballet and explored diverse modes of...
Dance exhibition catalogue featuring photos of The Florida State University Dance Touring Theatre including; Roberta Behrendt, Jack Chaitman, Jack Clark, Alan Danielson, Gayle Doherty, Janice Frazier, Kate Watson Gelabert, Kim Kepler, ...
The effect of music on differences in body movement of college music majors, dance majors, and sexual abuse survivors
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This study was designed to determine what effect specific kinds of music had on subject dance responses. Each of the subjects participated individually in a five-minute long experiment, which included moving to music in the experiment room according to a set of instructions on an audio cassette, and then completing a self-report... Results showed statistically significant differences in the interaction of subjects and music. The most major significance seen with relaxed movement was with outward movements, in the sexual trauma/orchestral combination. (Abstract...
This thesis is an investigation of women's conscious exercise as it intersected with industrialism, consumerism and early Progressive Era identity politics. It will discuss calisthenics, Delsartism and the beginnings of modern dance as...
This thesis traces a lineage from historical onscreen awkward dancing to contemporary online dorky dancing. This evolution encompasses Edison's actualities, the stars of silent film, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the expert awkward...
ABSTRACT This dissertation has two aims. The first is to further expand the scope of composition studies to include the/a/our body within digital multimodal composition—considering how it can be an active participant in both the process...
Since their inception in the late sixteenth century, French ballets de cour traditions have drawn characters from sources that include commedia dell’arte, Greek mythology, and fairy tales. These source materials have affected the stage...
New Orleans, Louisiana is home to many secret Mardi Gras organizations, known as krewes, which represent both elite and working-class members of society. Acting on behalf of working-class African Americans, a group known as the Mardi...
The gestural language of a hip hop dance battle is one of the most important elements of the form. This study's primary focus is the gestural language of 'burns' used in battles by women hip hop dancers. Burns, the specific gestural...
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