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Overcoming Stigma Through Design: It’s My Party – A Multimedia Dance Theatre Production

abstract: This document analyzes the use of the Principles of Design within the applied project It’s My Party, a multimedia dance theatre production, as a means to address and overcome the stigmatization of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Through the orchestration of dance, music, props, acting, video, and spoken word, this interdisciplinary work investigates how these production elements synthesize into a transformative theatrical experience for audiences. Outlined in this document is the eight month design process. The process included concept design, assessing, processing, customizing the message, script development, rehearsals, and video production, and concluded with an evening length production. Analyzed through the structural narrative of The Hero’s Journey, this autobiographic work details the author’s HIV-positive (HIV+) coming out story from a restorative narrative perspective. By addressing the subject of HIV from a contemporary point-of-view, this project strives to reencode the troubling associations affiliated with HIV with an empowered and hopeful understanding. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:38787
Date January 2016
ContributorsAlvarez, Ricardo Daniel (Author), Schupp, Karen (Advisor), Magenta, Muriel (Committee member), Rajko, Jessica (Committee member), Standley, Eileen (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format104 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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