Graduation Year
2018
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Dance
Reader 1
Kevin Williamson
Reader 2
Ronnie Brosterman
Rights Information
2018CynthiaNIrobunda
Abstract
The focus of this creative project is on the formation of identity through the lens of a black woman. I will be exploring stereotypes, the black woman’s body, the process of teaching and learning and double consciousness. Through research into the history of African American dance, and through the researcher and choreographer’s personal experience of being a black woman and shared experience of being a woman, I will be studying how movement can mediate resistance, assimilation, and encourage progress and development in a racially, politically charged environment. The choreographic component of this creative project was completed in three parts, The Walk Part I, The Walk Part II and Nneka. Visual records of the three choreographic pieces are available through the Scripps Dance Department.
Recommended Citation
Irobunda, Cynthia, "Identity Formation: Exploring Personal and Shared Narratives of a Black Woman Through Movement" (2018). Scripps Senior Theses. 1160.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1160
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
