Thesis (D.M.A)--Stanford University, 1985. / Italian with English translation and commentary. Translation includes transcriptions of dance music in modern notation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-514).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas Woman's University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 230-242).

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Arizona University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-147). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Arizona University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-147).

Dance performance that is inclusive of dancers with differing corporealities has the potential to generate positive societal change with regard to perceptions of physical difference. Dance is a valuable site for exploring the placement of the physically disabled body in contemporary society, and for disrupting existing perceptions of disability as transgressive. This can come about through the embodied presence of both dancer and viewer, entering into a relationship grounded in intersubjectivity, without having to rely on symbolic signification. This thesis examines the placement of disabled bodies in dance performance from the intersecting perspectives of Critical Disability Studies, Performance Studies and Interpersonal Neurobiology in order to formulate a framework for theorizing perceptions of disability, the act of viewing dance and the impact of choreographic intent on viewers’ perceptions of physical difference. In the first section, the sociopolitical placing of disabled bodies in western society is interrogated and a historiological study of both disability identity and the emergence of integrated dance is critically analysed. The second section provides detailed analyses of three dance performances that are inclusive of dancers with physical disabilities: GIMP (2009), Heidi Latsky, Diagnosis of a Faun (2009) Tamar Rogoff, and water burns sun (2009) Petra Kuppers. Each represents a specific understanding of disability, creating an evolutionary framework for conceptualizing different perceptions of disabled bodies as either monstrous freak, heroic victim or corporeally diverse. The third section creates connections between new knowledge in interpersonal neurobiology and viewers' perceptions of disability that are activated through viewing dance performance, thus providing an understanding of the mechanisms of discrimination and marginalization of people who embody difference, as well as uncovering mechanisms that have the potential to be reparative. The application of neuroscientific knowledge to Performance Studies can be modulated and expanded by considering the interpersonal communicative dimension of dance performance that is inclusive of differing corporealities. A theoretical approach that encompasses the neuroscientific conceptualization of intersubjectivity in creating empathic attunement between viewer and dancer, can offer a means of understanding the innate potential of dance performance to bring about societal change.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Temple University, 1997. / Includes abstract. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 311-319).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009. / Includes abstract. Accompanying CD-ROM includes Mohiniyattam practicing and performance. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 418-464). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Thesis (M. F. A.)--Texas Woman's University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.