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Magic and Madness: An Autoethnographic Creative Nonfiction Arts-based Research Project Exploring the Makings of Mad Home Within and Outside of Dance Spaces
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The following thesis is an artistic exploration interested in discovering how Mad Home (Eales, 2018) can be crafted within dance spaces. In doing so, I discovered how my experiences with madness have infiltrated, inhabited, and influenced my experiences within normative dance spaces and beyond....
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Spring 2021
In 2008 Swiss theatre-maker Milo Rau and a group of collaborators founded the production company the International Institute of Political Murder. Since 2008, Rau and company have created a unique and identifiable brand of documentary-inspired political theatre. Early IIPM projects such as Die...
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2021-01-01
This image is an homage to my husband’s grandfather who inspired my doctoral research on temporality of persons living with dementia. This collage represents his porous realities that cross his childhood in Hong Kong/Macao, the period of the Second World War, and his late life in Canada. The...
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2020-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This proposed project is designed to contribute to the field of physical cultural studies (PCS). PCS is characterized as an emerging community of scholars who focus on the relationship between physical culture, power, and the moving/material body. By designing empirical,...
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2018-12-14
SSHRC Awarded PEG 2019: This Partnership Engage grant proposes a gathering where academics and artists come together to heighten dialogue and practice around experiential learning and embodied performance practice. The overall goal is an increased awareness and knowledge mobilization of dance...
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The Lost Jingle Dress
2016-06-04
The Lost Jingle Dress is a story written in 2014 by Heather Young-Leslie, and performed by Stuart McLean for the CBC Radio program Vinyl Café. The story lauds the small community of Jasper, Alberta. It was broadcast as part of the "Indigenous Music" episode, aired on June 3 & 4, 2016. This...
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Creative Factors and Ethnic-folk Dance: A Case Study of the Peacock Dance in China (1949-2013)
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My dissertation topic focuses on the interaction between dances, their contexts and their meanings. I am interested in a wide range of creative factors that are involved in the dance-context interaction. I chose to investigate these factors by looking at the Peacock Dance, which originates in the...
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Fall 2016
This exploratory work investigates the “transformational festival,” a contemporary form of celebratory leisure that revolves around music, the arts, community, and co-creativity. By integrating interpretative phenomenological analysis with methods from arts-based research, critical ethnography,...
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2014-12-11
Recently, a new wave of gaming known as active gaming or exergaming has shown it can be an educationally functional and enjoyable method of learning within areas of the curriculum which highlight dance or other individual activities. This study aimed to better understand the impact dance and...