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SHAKE! SPILL! KIKI! EXPLORATIONS OF DEEPER LOVE, GLORIOUS MESSES, AND LIBERATORY AND CELEBRATORY SPACES

Bowie, Joe Harrison

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Title
SHAKE! SPILL! KIKI! EXPLORATIONS OF DEEPER LOVE, GLORIOUS MESSES, AND LIBERATORY AND CELEBRATORY SPACES
Author(s)
Bowie, Joe Harrison
Issue Date
2024
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
  • Hook, Sara
  • Oliver, Cynthia
  • O'Connor, Terrance
  • D'Orleans-Juste, Roxane
  • Aprahamian, Serouj
  • Brandt, Elizabeth
Department of Study
Dance
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Keyword(s)
  • Blackness
  • Queerness
  • Black Queer Studies
  • Storytelling
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Black Gay/Queer Poetry
Language
eng
Abstract
In my research, I use storytelling to create and construct my Black, queer life. I build this research from the intersections of radical women of color feminisms, Black Queer Studies, and Black gay/queer poetry. I take inspiration from the multimodal methods of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (1975) and Marlon Riggs’ groundbreaking work Tongues Untied (1989) and use their examples to combine improvisatory movement, sonic scores, and written and spoken text into explorations of deeper love, glorious messes, and liberatory and celebratory spaces. These considerations help me further excavate how lived archives might contribute to creating dances that are felt and sensed—undergirded by embodied storytelling, autoethnographic research methodologies, and affectively led choreographies.
Type of Resource
text
Copyright and License Information
Copyright Joe Bowie

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MFA Theses – Dance PRIMARY