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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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
In dance histories the Texas Tommy is a noted but contentious member of the family of 1910s Rag dances. Its disputed geographical origins and the dance's questionable relationship to the Apache have resulted in inadequate information and...
This Masters in American Dance Studies thesis engages with the notion of bodily memory as the feminist archive. Using historical, theoretical, and embodied research methods, I define the feminist archive as it relates to the field of...
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...
Were Vernon and Irene Castle drawing upon African American music and dance to advance their personal ambitions? Yes. Was the transmission of cultural elements between black and white society as simple as commodification and appropriation...
The purpose of this study was to explore the cascading mechanism of choking under pressure in dance, validate an integrated-perceptual model of choking, and examine the effectiveness of a 7-week combined self-talk and progressive muscle...
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...
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...
In the early 21st century, pole dancing entered the context of formalized competitions in the US, where it is often referred to as pole. There competitors contort around poles performing dare-devilish acrobatics for judges who award...
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...
Photograph, black and white, of people dancing. Five women dance with five men, while a sixth man watches from the behind them. The women crouch down while the men point over their heads.
TRAZOM Tableaux: The Family Unsilenced refers to Mozart backwards, and this is where my thesis is rooted. Emily Wolfe and I have combined our undergraduate theses into one dance performance. Our theses look into the Mozart family that...
This dissertation examines concert dance, Broadway musicals, and film musicals from the mid-1930s to the early Cold War period, exploring how choreographers, directors, and performers expressed American nationalism through dance....
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...
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...
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...
Photograph, black and white, of people dancing. Five pairs of people stand close together, posing for a photograph outside. A couple of people are visible behind the pairs.
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...
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...
Photograph, black and white, of Mary Carson. Carson is dressed in costume, and stands an entrance to FSCW. She poses with her arms stretched to the side, wearing an eye mask and a dress with long sleeves.
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...
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