Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Reader 1
Kimberly Drake
Reader 2
Kevin Moffett
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Abstract
This is a creative writing: nonfiction thesis investigating how the Scripps College Dance Department came to be and serves a testament to the tenacity of the Scripps College Dance Department. This thesis explores different interconnected histories, regarding women's bodies, women's colleges and dance pioneers at the turn of the twentieth-century, to help explain why dance has the place it does in higher education, offering dance as a space for aestheticism in academia and focusing on the particular intersection of dance, aestheticism and women in a dance department at a women's college. Perhaps by looking at these histories, the current state of the Scripps Dance Department can be understood.
Recommended Citation
Ho, Christiana K., "The Intersection of Women, Aestheticism and Dance in the Scripps College Dance Department" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 675.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/675
