Recent Thesis Archive
2025
- The Personal is Political: Autobiographical Performance in Contemporary Dance - Beier Li
2024
- The Plan Is To Feel Bad: Reflections on I Made It Home Safely - Jaime Belden
- Step, Kick, Kick, Leap, Kick, Touch; or, Teaching Choreography to Non-Dancer Performers in Theatre Productions: A Workshop Approach - Isaac Ellingson
- Dancing with Death: Investigating Liminality Through the Lens of Butoh - Dani Peterson
2023
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Staging the Square: Community and Queerness Through the Lens of American Square Dance - Annabelle Stern
2022
- Giving Up the Ghost: Selfhood and Otherhood in Technologized Dance - August Singer
2021
- Jew~ish? Embodied Constructions of Jewishness in American Ashkenazi Zionism - Rose Cole-Cohen (dance/anthropology)
- The Revolution Will Not Be Live Streamed: Dialectics of Black Feminine Subjectivity in Viral TikTok Dances and Beyond - Ariah Henderson
2020
- Our Beds Are Islands: Creating Queer Intimacy Through Physical Theatre In The Age Of Streaming Media - Saga Darnell (theatre/dance)
- Perceiving, Sensing, and Inhabiting: Embodiment and Physical Experience in Contemporary Dance and Visual Art - Hannah Jensvold (dance/art)
- The Spaces Between - Laura Kennedy
Pre-2020
- 2019 - The Burden of Cost: Usinge Dance-based Research to Center Lived Experience in a Non-dominant Model of Disability in Postsecondary Education - Charles Bales (dance/economics)
- 2019 - We've Got It Goin' On : Drag King Interpretations of 90's Boy Band Performance - Erin Lauderdale
- 2019 - Transmission and Translation: Conceptualizing Bodily Transfers of Tradition Through Embodied Ritual - Morgan Meister
- 2019 - Valuing the Dance Marathon - Maya Nájera Evans
- 2018 - (Re-)membered Intimacies: A Reaffirmation of the Body as Knowledge - Olivia Hasencamp
- 2018 - Expanding the Corporeal Self : Using Dance Improvisation to Cultivate Intimacy and Heighten Physical Perception - Mackenzie Schuller
- 2018 - Meat of the Matter - Rika Yotsumoto
- 2017 - Sueños Americanos: An American Dream: Counterhegemonic Narrative Strategies of Queer Performers of Color - Sidra Morgan-Montoya (dance/theatre)
- 2017 - All Your Love: In-home Mutual Aid and Queer Reliance Alliances - Ezra Unterseher
- 2016 - Where's Leon? (or) That Extraordinary Drama: Dancing Jazz, Negotiating Historiography, and Performing Americanism on the Cold War Cultural Tours - Hannah MacKenzie-Margulies (dance/music)
- 2015 - Unsettled and On the Margin: The Grotesque in the Poetry of Kim Hyesoon and Carl Phillips, and the Choreography of Ohad Naharin - Katrina E. Bastian (dance/literature)
- 2015 -A Performance of Ritual Intervention - Grace Poetzinger (dance/art)
- 2014 - Interactions Between Marginalized Status & Social Structure: Quantitative & Choreographic Approaches - Olivia Jensen (dance/sociology)
- 2014 - Kurt Jooss' "The Green Table": An Anti-war Ballet? - Jacqueline Davis (dance/history)
- 2012 - Transforming the Body: Costume and Choreography in Pilobolus, MOMIX, BodyVox, and "On the Ropes: Exploring the Technical Body" - Claire Hemingway Thomforde-Garner (dance/theatre)
- 2009 - It is a Truthful Soup: Tanztheater and Related Performance Forms - Alexandra Dahout (dance/theatre)
- 2008 - An Exploration of Ritual in Performance - Anna McDonald (dance/theatre)
- 2008 - Follow Your Nose: Exploring the Physicality of Clowns and Other Things - Peter Schroeder (dance/theatre)