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Asian American and Dancing in Arizona; A Reflection on the Politics of Choreographing Migration and Citizenship in a Red State

abstract: My thesis, Asian American and dancing in Arizona; A reflection on the politics of choreographing migration and citizenship in a Red State is a written document that reflects on my creative process of making You don’t belong here, a site-specific, multimedia dance theater piece which I conceived, choreographed, and directed in partial fulfillment of my Master in Fine Arts in Dance degree (MFA) at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. I write this reflection from the corporeal perspective of my Asian body. My story comes from my cells that contain the memories of my ancestors, including the recent traumas of my parents that escaped war in China. I am writing from my feminist body, my fleshly archive. I am writing from a historically marginalized perspective. I write this reflection to provide my kinesthetic narrative for those that may not know that I exist at ASU. I consider the conservative political ethos of Arizona as an impetus to discover what it means to be Asian American and dancing in the desert. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Dance 2017

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:44279
Date January 2017
ContributorsYoung, Angeline (Author), Roses-Thema, Dr. Cynthia (Advisor), Dyer, Dr. Becky (Committee member), Kwan, Dr. SanSan (Committee member), Ping, Li-Chiao (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format54 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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