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Spring 2024
In response to the broader discourse that scrutinises cultural constructions of dementia, this thesis investigates how performance theories and theatrical practices can disrupt, reshape, and transform the stigmatised cultural imaginary of persons living with dementia. By bridging Performance...
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Fall 2023
Jan Fabre has been and continues to be one of Europe’s most controversial theatre directors, who never fails to shock the audience with very powerful yet provocative scenes. He has gained world recognition as a theatre director and visual artist, and his productions have been very successful and...
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Opening Political Bodies: Gender Performativity as Resistance Under Pharmacopornographic Capitalism
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This thesis is an investigation of the performative reconstitution of a queer body and subjectivity in art, and how this allows for not only a reclamation of identity, but also complicates and begins dismantling the present pharmacopornographic model of capitalism. I accomplish this through a...
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Towards a Decolonial Feminist Performance Praxis: An Exploration of Performance and Women's Leadership in Botswana
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This dissertation reflects on a research process that explores how performance can foster women’s leadership in Botswana. The process began with the question, “where are the women,” which in turn grew out of curiosity about what happens to women between the time they leave the classroom and the...
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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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Fall 2020
Traditional dramaturgical practice does not adequately account for how emergent digital media can interact with elements of performance in intermedial theatre, leading to an art form that is critically and compositionally inaccessible. When live and not-live components interact on stage, how does...
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Fall 2020
At the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 70s, political comedy grew exponentially in Syria and Lebanon. This phenomenon was represented mainly in the performances of three troupes: Thorns Theatre (Al-Shuk Theatre مسرح الشوك), Tishreen Troupe (Ferqet Tishreen فرقة تشرين ), and Ziyad...
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A Rhizomatic Analysis of Stage Management in Modern Alberta Theatre Practice: Keeping the Breath Alive
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This is a study of the role of technology in the stage management profession, with a specific focus on professional and social practices, in Alberta theatres. Through the interviews I conducted with five professional stage managers in the summer and fall of 2018, I investigate how stage managers...
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The Effect of Inhaled Nitric Oxide on Maximal Oxygen Consumption in High-fit and Untrained Individuals
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Previous work suggests that endurance-trained athletes have superior pulmonary vasculature function as compared to untrained individuals, which may contribute to their greater maximal oxygen uptake (V̇O2max). Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) improves pulmonary vascular compliance at rest in healthy...
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Spring 2019
Physical literacy is assumed to be important for the development of youth physical activity. In essence, those who are physically literate should lead active lives. For this reason, it is being incorporated into Canadian physical activity reports and policies. One area that physical literacy is...