Date of Award
12-9-2017
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Art in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling (MA)
Department
Creative Arts Therapies
First Advisor
Imus, Susan
Second Advisor
Downey, Laura
Third Advisor
Caldwell, Christine
Keywords
dance/movement therapy, American society, systems of oppression, inequality, injustice, qualitative research.
Abstract
Twenty-first century American society requires individual and collective bodies to navigate large and often invisible systems of oppression despite the felt-influence of inequality, injustice, and affective control. Drawing from convergent theories of social movements and dance/movement therapy, collective embodied resilience emerges as a dually activating and healing resource for change making. This qualitative research study utilized a participatory/action embodied artistic inquiry methodology to investigate how arts-activist co-researchers experience collective embodied resilience during participation in collective action. Employing arts-based methods of data collection and analysis, coresearchers explored collective embodied resilience to generate and share an accessible ritual movement practice within a Chicago community setting. An accompanying lyrical documentary narrates the process: https://vimeo.com/238143420. Analysis of the resultant social change process-practice revealed implications for developing advocacy and social justice promotion competence with dance/movement therapy graduate students. 102 pages.
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Recommended Citation
Milburn, Lauren Rose, "Engaging Collective Embodied Resilience, Enacting Ritual Movement Practice in a Social Change Process" (2017). Creative Arts Therapies Theses. 90.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/theses_dmt/90