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Certain Logic
No full textCertain Logic is a collection in which an unnamed narrator observes and experiences the world and relationships that surround her. This collection sets out to explore passivity and ambiguity. It is meant to blur the lines between reality and dreams, between the internal and external. While writing this collection, I was drawn to the idea of strangeness and alienation and how they manifest themselves through spaces and people. I mention Airbnbs, staying at a partner’s parent’s house, weddings, and trains. I also am preoccupied with transactional relationships and relationships that are frayed or ending. In all these spaces, whether they are physical or emotional, the narrator finds herself isolated and tries to make sense of everything happening around her. The collection is concerned with what it means to exist within a system that renders one, at times, powerless. Instead of actively choosing to resist, the narrator explores the idea of relinquishing control while maintaining perspective
Environmental Relations and Communication: On Diversifying Aesthetics in Aerial Arts
Full text linkAlthough aerial arts are typically relegated to performance, analysis, critique, and study within the niche of the Western circus sector, “Embodied Relations as Communication: On Diversifying Aesthetics in Aerial Arts\u27\u27 offers pathways for understanding aerial arts through a variety of practical, aesthetic, and non-circus lenses. Applying frameworks of transdisciplinarity, ecodramaturgy, and disability studies enables aerial arts to be practiced and artistically engaged by the many kinds of artists, bodies, and environments that do not adhere to or fit within the rigid formal structures of Western circus. This paper outlines the historical roots that have led to the conflation of aerial arts and circus and then shifts its focus to diverge from these roots and unpack methodologies and artist examples that expand the relational, physical, and artistic functions of aerial arts in practice and performance
Echoes of Vaudeville: How Modern Musical Comedians Challenge the Patriarchal Paradigm
Full text linkThis work explores how artists like Diana Oh, Grace McClean, Abby Feldman, and Catherine Cohen are pushing the boundaries of musical comedy, creating performances that are personal, interactive, and deeply connected to their audiences. These performers draw on techniques from vaudeville and stand-up comedy but subvert traditional forms to create inclusive and empowering spaces. Through their work, they are not only reshaping the landscape of musical comedy but also sparking conversations about social justice and the power of performance art
Together in Dying and Death: Challenging Capitalist Culture Through Embodiment and Interconnectivity in the Here and Beyond
Full text linkUnder capitalism, an individual’s value is determined by their ability to contribute to society, therefore there is a perceived failure in dying (Tyner, 2016). The “profit over people” priority that capitalism has contrived has led to the colonization of the psyche throughout our lives (LaMothe, 2015). In the United States, the interconnectedness of a death-avoidant and capitalist culture becomes apparent, and alludes to a greater conversation in how death avoidance has evolved into both subtle and blatant discriminatory practices. Systemic discrimination, underfunded social services, increasing financial inequality, and the pervasive influence of consumer culture are major aspects of American culture that both influence and mirror our avoidance of death. Through education and training, experience, and embodied practice, dance/movement therapists can discern how capitalist systems and culture leads to disconnect of the self and in relationships. As a body-based psychotherapeutic modality, dance/movement therapy may hold space for the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual challenges that can arise in dying, and to find new ways of being.
Keywords: dance/movement therapy, dying, death, capitalism, connection, embodie
Exploring Diversity in Genetic Counseling: Experiences and Perspectives of BIPOC Faculty and Leadership
Full text linkThe underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities within faculty and leadership roles in genetic counseling programs highlights a critical gap in the field\u27s commitment to diversity and inclusion. This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study investigates the experiences, challenges, and perspectives of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) serving in these capacities. By examining responses from the faculty and leadership members across various genetic counseling programs, this research aimed to identify barriers to diversity and explore mechanisms for fostering a more inclusive environment. The findings revealed an underrepresented number of BIPOC individuals (n≤3) in leadership or faculty roles per genetic counseling training programs. Participants reported experiences of microaggressions, biases, and a lack of institutional support. Despite these challenges, the importance of mentorship and support networks emerged as a significant theme. This theme highlighted that mentorship and support enhanced professional growth and diversity within the field. This study underscored the need for genetic counseling training programs to implement targeted strategies for improving representation through inclusivity, early recruitment efforts, community engagement, and the development of formal mentorship programs. This investigation provides a foundation for understanding the experiences of faculty and leadership in genetic counseling programs
Volta: The Daughters and the Mothers in the Kingdom of the Sons
No full textAfter thirty years of a recurring nightmare, the poet turns toward it. Face-to-face with her fears, these poems seek to turn tormentors into mentors. This thesis explores how women have been turned into various animals by myths, Ovid\u27s Metamorphoses, medical histories, violent ways of knowing, and even her own dreams. At the site of the wound, she\u27s after a Volta, a sharp turning point. Listening in the deep thickets of psyche, these poems re-enter myths through the side door, heading for artwork, dreamwork, and the animal kingdom to help sense the primal plights and sacred survivals of daughters and mothers in the kingdom of patriarchy
Finding the Voice from Within: Using Dance/Movement Therapy to Connect the Mind and Body to Access and Unlock the Voice
No full textThe human throat can be seen as a bridge from the body to the mind (Dychtwald, 1986). If there is a blockage that is keeping the emotions down in the body, the emotions will not be able to be turned into thoughts and words. This thesis explores how trauma can create this disconnect between the mind and the body, creating a blockage in the throat, making it more difficult to have a clear mind-body connection that can then lead to difficulties communicating with others. Through experiencing trauma, an individual may experience chronic muscle tension in the throat and other areas in the body that are needed to vocalize, causing difficulties in producing the voice. Individuals can experience changes in the voice that present no biological cause such as loss of volume, loss of muscle control in the throat muscles, or a complete loss of the voice. This thesis proposes that dance/movement therapy can be a beneficial therapeutic practice and be integrated with practices such as bioenergetics to regain full access to the voice. To be able to open up the blockage in the throat and process the emotions that are suppressed and locked in the body, the healing has to engage with the body. Dance/movement therapy is a therapeutic practice that creates safe spaces where the therapist meets the client and they are able to explore the inner sensations and start the process of opening up the channel that is between the mind and the body