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King Me! Alberta Drag King Performance, 1997-2016: Examining Constituency Audiences and The Communicative Functions of Gender
DownloadFall 2018
When it comes to issues of sexual diversity specifically within Canada, Alberta’s history demonstrates a track record of extreme social conservativism and intense policy battles over sexual minority rights. Prior to 2015, the Alberta government consistently “resisted the inclusion of GLBT people...
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Lady Dice and the Emerald Oyster Honeycomb: A New BlipVert and Synaesthetic Interdisciplinarity
DownloadFall 2019
As a composer, I spend hours in my studio creating eclectic and complex electronic music. Onstage, this music is radically transformed as I become BlipVert, a performative alter-ego which fervently remixes and alters the music, furthermore adding ancillary frenetic physical reactions to the dense...
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Fall 2018
The purposes of this dissertation were to (a) examine relationships between multidimensional perfectionism and athletes’ cognitive responses to failure in competition, (b) examine relationships between multidimensional perfectionism and athletes’ performance levels in competition, and (c)...
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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 2024
To be in flow is typically described as a state where one becomes enmeshed with the performance of a task. Flow has been extensively investigated and pioneered by the late Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi in the field of positive psychology to optimize focus, presence, and pleasure. Explorations of...
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Spring 2019
This project looks at how athletic movements borrowed from exercise translate into performance and social media settings mediated through trans bodies, affects, and politics. Trans artists turn to exercise for personal transformation of the body and bring those movements and their accompanying...