As of May 2015, all Sarah Lawrence College Master’s theses are available digitally. They are made accessible in one of three ways:

1. “Thesis – Open Access” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Open Access,” the thesis is available to download immediately via the Download button on the right. NOTE: If a thesis is embargoed for a specific length of time, the date after which the item will be available via open access is noted under the Download button on the right.

2. “Thesis – Campus Access Only” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Campus Access Only,” the thesis is available only on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College via IP address or via the Off-Campus Download button if you are a current SLC faculty, staff, or student. You will need your MySLC login and password to access from off-campus.

3. “Thesis – Closed Access” – If the document type in the metadata reads “Thesis – Closed Access,” access to the thesis requires written permission from the author.

If you are not a member of the Sarah Lawrence College Community and you are interested in access to a “Campus Access Only” thesis, please contact the author (if the Contact Author button is available on the right) or request the item through Interlibrary Loan from your local librarian. For additional questions, please contact digitalcommons@sarahlawrence.edu.

Copyright for theses is held by the authors.

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Theses from 2024

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Healing Cultural Trauma Through Dance as a Spiritual Practice- Homage to Alvin Ailey's "Blood Memories", Mya Bowden

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Neurodivergence in Dance Performance: A Thesis, Alannah Martin

Theses from 2023

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The Movie Musical and Jazz Dance: Reflections on Nostalgia in 21st Century America, Alexandra Bilodeau

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Crossing Histories: Dance, Body, and Culture, Jingxian Chen

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The Conscious Dancer: A Brief Discussion on Political Powers of Dance Makers, Bailyn Dupont

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A Somatic Intercession Through Somatic Integration, Sarae Garcia

Reflections on Space - Exploring Intercultural Creation in Space, Mingjun Han

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The Lived Dynamism of Dance: Phenomenological and Existential Inquiry, Allysen Hooks

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Embracing the Whore: Destigmatizing Sex and Dance, Moss Lovejoy

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Aging and Dance: Insights, Imagination, and Potential, Chloe A. Schafer

Theses from 2022

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Writing and Choreographing: The Double Dilemma of Chinese Immigrant Women, Na An

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Gestational Occlusion: The Embodied Evolution of Whiteness in the Contemporary White Dancing Body, Eleanor Cherry

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Destigmatizing the Conversation: Collective Visioning of New Horizons for Cultural Capital and the American Arts Worker, Katherine Helen Fisher

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A Cultural Reckoning in the South Bronx and El Barrio: Intertwined Socio-Political Histories of Salsa and Hip Hop From Local Communities to National Expansion, 1960’s to Early 2000’s, Kenia Rosete

Theses from 2020

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The Naughty Boy Dancing Queen: Embodied Agency In Queer Transgression and Conceptual Muchness, Hank Bamberger

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Visual Translation of Multi-Dimensionality: Comparisons In Physics And Dance, Shaelyn Casey

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The True Meaning Of Etiquette: The Choreography Of Idealized Womanhood, Amanda Hameline

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Jazz Dance A Derivative Genealogy: Yours/Mine, Julie Mondrick

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Technical Hierarchies: Carving Space For West African Dance In University Curricula, N’tifafa Akoko Tete-Rosenthal

Theses from 2019

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The Practice of Choreography Within Practice-as-Research: Choreographing in the Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous, Lu Shirley Dai

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Re-Imagining Plural Identities: Cultural Code-Switching and the Dancing Body, Ingrid Dehler-Seter

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Locating and Losing the Self: Explorations of Trauma and Identity in Live Performance, Nadia Hannan

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Queering Spatial Relationships Between Audiences and Performers Relational Aesthetics & Queer Spaces in Contemporary Concert Dance, Kate Shugar

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Choreographic Excavation Through Dramaturgy, Marie Zvosec

Theses from 2018

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Anarchist Movement: Power, Dissent, and the Possibility of an Autonomous Dance, Nathalie Jonas

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The Mobile Body: Examining Perception through Choreography, Dance, and Performance, Alaina Wilson