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1	J-Setting in Public: Black Queer Desires and Worldmaking Loyd-Sims, Lamont 14 January 2014 (has links) My research provides an inquiry of Black southern queerness situated through the artistic performance of j-setting. I explore j-setting as a dance style created by Black gay men by mapping out its beginnings, and how it has (not) traveled through mainstream culture. With this in mind I interrogate how j-setting exists as a cultural scene for Black queer men in the South to celebrate who we are, while also representing a strategy for our survival against racism, heteronormativity, and other dominant forces that pathologize our realities. This project suggests that an exploration of j-setting exemplifies the resilience and vulnerabilities of Black gay men when engaging dominant/mainstream culture. I contend that j-setting represents a form of worldmaking that allows Black gay men to create new racial and gendered possibilities while grappling with the everyday experiences of anti-Black racism and homo/queerphobia.
2	Voguing is not white, honey... / Voguing is not white, honey... Venturová, Adéla January 2020 (has links) In my diploma thesis I deal with the concept of "natural". I wonder what society considers natural and what it doesn't. For this "research", I borrowed the dance genre of Vogue, which was invented by the trans subculture, as a celebration of the otherness of sexual identities. I open questions of normality and nature through new entities, which I create from found synthetic materials and my body. At the same time, artificial materials illustrate the issue of nature not only in society but also in the environment. The final work is assemblage. But it is not just about connecting different materials, but also about connecting different media, feelings, themes and thoughts that culminate in one whole. However, with its creation, it slowly disappears again. As a result, it is an installation consisting of decomposing costumes, which I used in three already performed performances. The installation creates an environment for a new action. Specifically for the dance "battle", which will be based on the already mentioned "voguing". The performance lasts until one of the two performers is exhausted and is accompanied by music and authentic screams from real "battles".
3	The Lily's Revenge: Staging Love and Community in the Style of the Ridiculous Onopa, Jennifer 12 July 2018 (has links) (PDF) This written portion of my thesis documents my process as a director in staging Taylor Mac’s play The Lily’s Revenge in collaboration with a creative team of designers, dramaturgs, and performers. I share with the reader my processes toward fostering cohesion and collaboration among a team while working on a complex play that departs from many theatrical conventions. I discuss significant learnings from several areas of dramaturgical and performance research that dovetail within the play: queer performance practice, Theater of the Ridiculous, and Noh theater, and how I used this research to support the communication with my design collaborators to design a show crossing several theatrical genres. I invite readers into the challenges and discoveries of a rehearsal process that required heightened performances from actors and creative solutions for sustaining audience engagement. This thesis includes dramaturgical research, documentation of the rehearsal process, and documentation of audience and performer experiences. queer performance Taylor Mac directing Theatre and Performance Studies
4	Queer pedagogy : performing outside the lines Williams, Sidney Monroe 16 February 2015 (has links) This qualitative study reflects on my experiences as a queer pedagogue developing a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered/Transsexual, Questioning/Queer, and Ally (LGBTQA) youth theatre ensemble, Outside the Lines. Through the analysis of my pedagogy and the pedagogy of three practitioners affiliated with the Pride Youth Theatre Alliance, I explore how my queer culture, language, expression and politics influence my Applied Drama & Theatre practice within educational and community spaces. It is hoped that by inviting other practitioners and allies into my process this document will generate constructive dialogue around queer pedagogy and its fluid performance. Furthermore, this document aims to serve as a reference for future practitioners that work with queer youth and in queer spaces. / text Queer Pedagogy LGBTQA Applied theatre Applied drama Queer youth Queer spaces Queer performance
5	The Epic Document January 2017 (has links) abstract: Through ideologies of gender identity, gender as performance, sexuality, and the transgressions thereof, this document serves as a memoir inside of a memoir. I made a pop concert dance piece through a western dance aesthetic with my thesis paper detailing the experience. What did that look like? Throughout this paper, I will explain my thought process, expectations, and experience through writing, which is a more challenging task for me. I am not an academic writer, but rather a rebel with a cause. My cause is to transgress the system in any way I’m able - through words, dance, and expression. As opposed to the artistic dance piece itself, this paper’s purpose is one of both selfish intent and catharsis. Given this, I approached my thesis paper with the same mindset used when developing my piece, in that I rebel fighting against the heteronormative standards that have run my life. I don’t fill this document with regurgitated theory. Moreover, this document morphed into a cathartic platform for me, a purging of counter-hegemonic principals and ideals. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2017 Dance Performing arts intersectionality madonna pop culture puerto rican queer performance queer theory
6	Reexamining American Vaudeville: Male Impersonation, Baby Jane Hudson, and The Large Butch Crooner Squire, Emma M. 04 August 2016 (has links) No description available. Theater History Theater Studies Performing Arts Gender Studies Vaudeville Male Impersonation Queer Performance
7	Travesti Show: Performativita a Vyjednávání Genderové Identity / Travesty Show: Performativity and Negotiation of Gender Identity Chistyakova, Anastasia January 2019 (has links) This thesis is concerned with the question of gender identification in drag culture. The research, upon which this work is based, focuses on Czech drag queens that participate in drag (travesti) show in an LGBTQ+ enterprise in Prague. In my research, I have attempted to grasp the motivation of my informants to do drag, their connection to queer culture and the ways in which they create their own aesthetic on stage. With the help of these topics, I approach the problem of their gender identification, both in and out of drag. On the basis of the collected fieldwork material and relevant literature, I problematize gender identification among my informants. On the basis of such identification, I furthermore attempt to demonstrate limitations and shortcomings of the heteronormative framework of gender performativity, gender performance and gender identification in general. Keywords: travesty show, drag, queer, homosexuality, performativity, performance, heteronormativity, gender subversion
8	Growing Tribes: Reality Theatre and Columbus' Gay and Lesbian Community Savard, Shannon N., Savard 14 August 2018 (has links) No description available. Performing Arts Theater Theater History Glbt Studies Theater Studies gay and lesbian theatre Midwest Ohio queer humor gay and lesbian community community-based performance community-based theatre metronormativity critical allyship queer performance camp pop culture historicization devised theatre
9	From the Love Ball to RuPaul: The Mainstreaming of Drag in the 1990s Davenport, Jeremiah Ryan, PhD 06 September 2017 (has links) No description available. History Motion Pictures Latin American History Modern History Music Performing Arts Theater Theater History Theater Studies Womens Studies Art History Black History Cultural Anthropology Dance Film Studies Gender Gender Studies Glbt Studies drag drag queens queer performance Downtown New York lgbtq queer history drag queen history The Birdcage Priscilla, Queen of the Desert RuPaul Madonna Susanne Bartsch Leigh Bowery The Birdcage Paris is Burning performance art Klaus Nomi

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