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UNIS - UNIVERSITY OF SURREY COLLECTION OF MA DANCE DISSERTATIONS

1 - Dissertations submitted in 2005

2 - Dissertations submitted in 2006

B - Dissertations

1711 - Dance Therapy: An Analysis of the Development of Theoretical Frameworks

1713 - Mary Skeaping: The Dancing Years - An Example of Dance Life in England 1902-1939

1715 - Fifty Years of Ballet in Milan 1771-1821: A Theatre-based Study

1716 - Consideration of the Development of Dance Knowledge in State Secondary Education with Particular Reference to Public Examination Systems, A

1717 - Creation and Performance of 'Mummer's Dance', The

1718 - Bag of Crayons: An Exploration through a Performance and its Collated Records and Through a Tabular Analysis of Eighteen Other Performances into the Apparent Differences Between Performance Art and New Dance, The

1720 - Construction of Resource Packages for G.C.S.E. Dance Studies and the Integrated Use of Resource-based Teaching with Independent Learning Approaches, The

1721 - Dance in Worship

1725 - David Bintley - Twentieth Century Choreographer: A Study of His Work to 1984 Relative to Inherited Traditions within the Royal Ballet Companies

1726 - Development of Courses in Dance History and Proposals for the Construction and Teaching of Curriculum Units, The

1727 - Influence of Eastern Thought and Practice on Western Modern Dance, The

1730 - Dance and the Camera: The Case for Collaboration

1731 - Two Plays for Dancers: A Dance History of 'At the Hawk's Wall' and 'The Only Jealousy of Emer' by W.B. Yeats

1732 - Choreutic Theory of Rudolf Laban: Form and Transformation, The

1733 - Aspects of Irish Dancing Past and Present: With Particular Reference to Irish Dancing in London

1734 - Future Light: A Study of Dark Elegies

1735 - Investigation into the Incidence and Role of Dance Education in the Adult Sector with Specific Reference to Dance as a Theatre Art, An

1736 - Study of 'Romeo and Juliet' in Dance Form in Comparison to the Original Shakespearean Text, A

1737 - Dance as a Medium for Political Expression

1738 - Ballet in Britain during the Second World War

1739 - Nature of Dance Education Practised by Some Major Companies between 1980-1985, The

1740 - Notation: With Particular Reference to the Use of Labanotation in the UK

1741 - Emilyn Claid: An Examination of Her Influence within Contemporary Dance in this Country

2052 - Martha Graham's Cycle of Works Based on the Myths of Ancient Greece

2053 - Lea Anderson, Lloyd Newson and Yolande Snaith - the British Rebirth: Content in 1980s Independent Dance

2054 - Relevance of Anatomy and Physiology in Relation to the Dance Technical Study (1986) of the G.C.E. Advanced Level Dance Syllabus, The

2055 - Issues in Dance Education and Teacher Training in Queensland, Australia

2056 - Genderwatch: Dance Education and Gender with Particular Reference to Wiltshire

2057 - Theory and Practice of Implementing a Dance/Movement Programme for Adults with Down's Syndrome, The

2058 - The Educational Role of Canadian Dance Companies: An Analysis of Current Practices with Recommendations and Proposals for the Future

2059 - Evolution of Contemporary Dance in Taiwan, The

2060 - Say Something Dance Company present Episodes, a Dance Theatre Piece Choreographed for and by Pupils of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School

2061 - The Red Detachment of Women: A Study of the Evolution of Ballet in China

2062 - Evolution of Dance in the American Film Musical, The

2063 - Examination of Dance and Other Art Forms in the Political Climate of Nazi Germany, An

2064 - Kenneth MacMillan 1945-1955 - Emergence of a Choreographer

2065 - Dancing in the Fourth Dimension: The Art of Videodance

2066 - Rebel and Master-Magician - Jan Fabre as Choreographer: An Analysis of Selected Works 1976-1993

2067 - Sir Kenneth MacMillan: The Women and the Ballets. A Feminist Analysis of Four of His Works in the Context of his Output as a Whole

2068 - 'Perfect moments, immaculately framed': Postmodernism and Popular Culture in the Work of Lea Anderson

2069 - Variety of Ballets: A Neglected Area of Study - An Enquiry into the Popular Ballets of the Music Hall Era in London (1884-1914) and Their Subsequent Neglect, The

2070 - Consideration of Video Dance as the Embodiment of Postmodern Dance, A

2071 - Margaret Morris Speaking: Description of her Early Career

2072 - Analysis of Three Dance Programmes in the Philippines, An

2073 - Ambiguity in Jonathan Burrows' Choreography: The Paradox of Humour and Violence

2074 - Investigation into Spatial Design in Dance

2075 - Attitude towards the Body and their Manifestation in the Works of Pina Bausch and Richard Alston

2076 - An Achievement: Celia Franca's Contribution to Ballet in Canada

2077 - An Analysis of the Pas de Deux as a Choreographic Device Employed by Four Twentieth Century Choreographers: George Balanchine (Agon), Kenneth MacMillan (Manon), Hans van Manen (Four Schumann Pieces), Jennifer Jackson (Median)

2078 - History of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and School 1933-1989, The

2079 - Matter of Interpretation: A Comparison of the Criticism of Arlene Croce, Deborah Jowitt and Marcia B. Siegel, A

2080 - Gray and Keynes, Policies and Patrons - Dance in Cambridge 1926-1945

2081 - Greek Dance Groups of Plaka: A Case of 'Airport Art'

2082 - Dance Resources in Japan: A Survey and Discussion for the Future Era

2083 - Analysis of Bachelor of Arts (Dance) Degree Courses in Australia, An

2084 - 'A Scattering of Pine Seeds': A Critical Appraisal of Classical Greek Dance, Ruby Ginner Method, from September 1991 to August 1992, with Reference to its Past and Thoughts for its Future

2085 - MacMillan Pas de Deux: An Investigation of his Choreographic Style, The

2086 - Exploration of the Body: The Work of Jerzy Grotowski in Relation to that of Contemporary Dance Practitioners, Steven Paxton and Anna Halprin, The

2087 - 'Look, But Don't Touch': Courting Culture and Contemporary Urban, Social Dance for Youth

2088 - May B (1981): The 'Spirit', the 'Flesh', and the 'Shape' of Maguy Marin's Dance Piece

2089 - Development of Black Dance in Britain, The

2090 - Analysis of the Relationship between Artistic Intention and Critical Interpretation: A Case Study - Emilyn Claid's 'Virginia Minx at Play', An

2091 - Analysis of the Cultural Framework of the Production and Reception of Loie Fuller's Dance, An

2092 - 'This is a movement. This is another. This is a third. Now make a video.': Projection (1995) - a dance video - and Rock Culture

2093 - Tradition Upheld? The Influence of Commedia dell'Arte on C20th Theatre Dance in Europe and the USA, Volume II: Appendices

2094 - 5-16: Stages in the Development of the Dance Appreciator

2095 - Semiotics and the Postmodern Dance: or 'the age of hierarchy is drawing to a close' (Boyne, 1990, p4)

2096 - Four Great Ballerinas, 1946-1951

2097 - Postmodern Theory and the Choreography of Michael Clark

2098 - Modern Dance and the Expression and Experience of the Mystical

2099 - Filles seront Filles?: Feminist Issues in Post 1980 Choreography

2100 - Ashton and Abstraction: A New Approach to Three Ballets of Frederick Ashton

2101 - Between Dance Cultures: Integrated Dancing in Two Instances

2102 - 'Shifting Grids': An Exploration in Process

2103 - Classical Influence in Expressionism, The

2104 - Reading Dance in the 1990s: A Personal Interpretation of DV8 Physical Theatre's 'Strange Fish' (1993)

2105 - Living with the Past: British Modern Dance, London Contemporary Dance Theatre and the Rambert Dance Company, 1986-1992

2106 - 'Movement is Life': A Study of the Creation and Development of the Work of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, 1930-1990

2107 - Expression in Dance: A Theoretical and Practical Exploration of the Choreographic Process

2108 - Dance to the Music of Time: An Investigation into Aspects of Timing in Dance

2109 - Agnes de Mille: Her Life and Work with a Special Focus on her Career in England (1932-1938)

2110 - Dance in Pop Music Videos: Stereotyping Women's Sexuality - Concentrating on an Analysis of Madonna's 'Vogue' with Specific Reference to Issues of Feminism and Popular Culture

2111 - From the Inside Out: The Relation between Post-modern Dance and the Western Holistic Movement Theories

2112 - Dancer and the Law: An Examination of the Industrial Injuries System and its Application to the Dance Industry, The

2113 - Development of 'The Rite to Play' (1987-88), Choreographed by the Author, through the Application of Analysis to the Choreographic Process

2114 - Modern and Post-modern Concerns in Siobhan Davies' 'Wyoming' (1988)

2118 - Peeping through the Keyhole: Feminist Film Theory as a Perspective in the Analysis of 'Beethoven in Love (a fantasy in five songs)' by Divas Dance Company

2119 - P-Form (A): Performance Principles and Practice in Dance

2120 - Myth of Hong Kong Performing Dance: The Distinctiveness, the Identity and the Future, A

2121 - Attitudes in Education: Considerations for Delivering an Education in Ballet

2122 - Enigma of Postmodern Work: The Problems Yolande Snaith's Diction Presents for Analysis, The

2123 - My Culture. My Choreography. Myself: Intercultural Interaction in the Choreography of an Interculturally Raised Artist

2124 - Right Angled Curves (1970): An Analysis of the Use of Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation for Dance Compostition in the Work of Noa Eshkol

2125 - Saints and The Sinners: Problematics of Dancing and Disability, The

2126 - Shifting Boundaries: Collaboration in Rosemary Butcher's '3d' and Russell Maliphant's 'Paradigm'

2441 - Matthew Bourne: Swan Lake or Ugly Duckling

2442 - Fragile Roughness: Representations of Masculinities in Kenneth Kvarnstrom's Fem Danser (1995)

2443 - History as Narrative: Reinterpreting Ashton's Past

2444 - The Life, Work and Times of Ana Ricarda: A Histriographic Exercise in Constructing and Contextualising a Biographical Narrative Using Primary and Secondary Sources

2445 - Exploration of Concepts of 'Irishness' in Irish Modern Dance Theatre's Macalla, An

2446 - Intercultural Performance: Focus on Both Thai and Western Culture and Dance Training in My Choreography 'Between the Lines'

2447 - Dancing Bodies in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema: Aspects of Representational Sexual Difference

2541 - Study of Process-Oriented Community Dance Practice, A

2542 - Can Dance Education Provide a Focus for Multicultural Education?

2543 - Capoeira in Northern Europe: A Study of European identities in the practice of a Brazilian art form

2544 - Jazzart Dance Theatre: Dance, Identity and Empowerment in a Changing South Africa

2545 - "Perform for us. Show us your body" (Bill T Jones, 1988): Dance/Display

2546 - Parallel Paths Into The Wilderness, An Exploration of the Philosophies of Michel Foucault as seen in Selected Ballets of William Forsythe

2547 - "Francis Bacon" Choreographed by Johann Kresnik and Ismael Ivo, An Intertextual Analysis

2548 - Dance on Greek Television: Towards a Working Model

2549 - Rami Be'er - A Political Choreographer

2550 - Contemplation of the Creative Development of Contemporary Korean Dance, A: Through an Analysis of Selected Dance Works

2555 - Feminist Dances in the context of Poststructuralism: A textual analysis of dance works by Carol Brown and Yolande Snaith

2556 - Rhythms of Grace: An Ethnography of Christian Sacred Dance

2557 - Self-Esteem with regard to young people dancing and performing

2558 - Investigation into the ways in which Mark Morris has dealt with issues of gender and sexuality in Dido and Aeneas and The Hard Nut, An

2559 - New Identities in South Asian Dance in Britain: An Anthropological Approach

2560 - Comparative Reading of Dance Criticism of Anglo-American and Japanese Critics on William Forsythe's The Second Detail (1991) and The Loss of Small Detail (1991)

2561 - International Folk Festival: Dance, Representation and National Identity, The

2562 - Trance-Dance: An Ethnography of Dervish Whirling

2563 - ZouZou Nikoloudi: A Greek Choreographer. Her Artistic Vision and Contribution to the Greek Dance Theatre

2564 - Mass Ornament of Drill Team, The: a paradox of female empowerment and patriarchal constructions of women's bodies

2565 - Shifting Perceptions: Crossing Boundaries Through Video Dance

2566 - Atomistically Yours: Study of Communication in Improvisational Performance, A

2567 - Neither Cavalier Nor King: An Analysis of Representations of Masculinity in the Work of Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) and Jiri Kylian's Sarabande (1995)

2568 - Identity and Exile: Gertrud Bodenwieser from Austria to Australia

2569 - Sadler's Wells Theatre Teacher Education from the "Theatre of the Millennium"

2570 - Towards Developing a Critical Framework for African Dance Forms in Britain: A comparative study of four dance companies

2571 - Butoh: Body, Culture and Authenticity

2572 - A discussion of the Works and Interpretations of Lucinda Childs

2573 - "Making the Invisible Visible": Sensory Awareness in Training, Devising and Performance

2574 - Trisha Brown and William Forsythe: The Development of Multi-Directional Movement in the Work of Two Distinctly Different Choreographers

2575 - Integrating Concept and Embodiment: Physical Theatre in South Africa Today

2576 - Consideration of the Components which make a Competent Teacher of Dance at Key Stage One and Key Stage Two and an Investigation into the Effectiveness of Inset in Developing these Competencies

2577 - Returning the Gaze: A Consideration of the Performer/Audience Relationship within Watching Too by Tamsin Reeve

2578 - Comala: Magic Realism in Physical Theatre, a postmodern approach

2579 - Performing Gender: Subversive Elements in The Representations of Gender in Mark Morris' Dido and Aeneas and The Hard Nut

2580 - "Like Owning a Treasure.": An Ethnographic Investigation into the Meanings and Values of Dance for a Community Dance Group

2581 - South Asian Dance: a construct in need of revision. An investigation into Bharatha Natyam performed by young people in Britain

2582 - "Where did the Tarantula Bite You?": From Ritual to Performance in Inspiratio

2583 - Criticism and Choreography: Reconsidering Sex and Gender in the Work of Balanchine and Cunningham

2584 - Snatching Back the Male Gaze

2585 - "Otherness" on Stage

2586 - Trying to Make Myself Heard - Giving the Shameful Body Its Voice

2587 - An Exploration into Magic

2588 - Beyond the Programme Note: An Interrogation of the Interpretation, Evaluation and Description of African Dance in Western Dance Criticism

2589 - Natural Movement: Dancing in the English Dance Field

2590 - Mine-ing the Authentic Self: An Investigation into the notion of the authentic self and how it can be expressed through dance and arts practice

2591 - An Enquiry into how 'Le Tango De Roxanne' and 'Play with Fire' Explore Feminine and Masculine Gender Roles within a Heterosexual Framework

2592 - Interfaces between actual and virtual bodies in Merce Cunningham's BIPED and Carol Brown's SeaUnSea

2593 - An Exploration of "Tradition": Creativity, Continuity and Change in Ceilidh Dancing and the Ceilidh Dance Event in the North East of Scotland

2594 - Performing the Self: A Practical and Theoretical Exploration of Self-Representation in Performance

2595 - The Search for Grace: American Delsarte, Genevieve Stebbins and Utopian Dreams

2596 - Peter Darrell: The Unsung British Choreographer

2597 - Perceptions and Misconceptions: Ram Gopal's Challenge to Orientalism

2598 - Success or Failure?: Kenneth MacMillan in Berlin 1966-1969

2599 - Clog Dance Revival, Performance and Authenticity An Ethnographic Study

2600 - Ian Spink and the British answer to Tanztheater

2601 - "Dancing Valkyrie" Tracing Images of Death & Femininity In Dance

2602 - Ambiguity within the Ambiguous: The Representation of Homosexuality within DV8's Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men

2603 - "Subcultural Capital The Way To Appeal" Using Subcultural Capital to Enhance Dance Education at Key Stage Three

2604 - Dance as Indicator of Social Relations and Values in Faraklata Village, Kefalonia, Greece

2605 - Capturing Energy an Examination of Visual and Textual Representations of Clubbing

2606 - A Reading of Mats Ek's The Sleeping Beauty (1996)

2607 - The Dance Language of Russell Maliphant: A Study of Perspective, Context and Effects on Reading

2608 - Three Oranges: Decision, Grace and Authority; Meyerhold's Biomechanics in Relation to Contemporary Dance Culture

2609 - The Significance of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' Musicals: An Analysis of Swing Time (1936)

2610 - Butoh: The Dance of an Embodied Philosophy

2611 - Serra: An Analysis of a Traditional Greek Pontic War-Dance

2612 - Community Dance in Performance

2613 - Situating Li Hongzhi's China Falun Gong: A Comparison with Allied Chinese traditions and a Performative Consideration

2614 - An Investigation Into British Ballet and its Treatment of Black Dancers with Reference to Aspects of Institutional Racism

2615 - Turning the Tide: Seeing Water Study as an example of Doris Humphrey's Art of Making Dances

2616 - Breaking in to the [real?] circle: Issues of authenticity and identity in a breakdance community

2617 - Mats Ek's Choreography in Relation to Meyerhold's Biomechanics and Grotowski's Poor Theatre

2618 - House Queens and Techno Drones: A Study of the Social Construction of Gender in the House and Techno Club Through Dance Movement and Other Embodied Practices

2619 - Progressive Exoticism: Isadora Duncan's Portrayal of America

2620 - Appearing Males: An analysis of the representation of Males, Masculinities and Men in the works of Lindsay Kemp & Company and Selected Japanese Male Butoh artists in London 1970-1990s

2621 - National Identity in Sung-Mu: An Analysis of Traditional Ideas and National Sentiment

2622 - Dance as it appears to the spectator. How does audience read emotion in movement? Analysis of Martha Graham's work Lamentation (1930)

2623 - Attempting to decode Moon Water to Ascertain a Contemporary Cultural Identity for Taiwan

2624 - I know who I am, how can I show you? An investigation into the process of subjectification within the performance of Angelique Wilkie in Rien de Rien (2000)

2625 - Men, Women and Naked Legs. Gender Representation in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Achterland: An Analysis

2626 - An Analysis of Dance Theatre components in V-TOL's Without Trace

2627 - The Changing Faces of Pre-war America: Performances of the American Self and Its Others in Film Musicals, 1927-41

2628 - A Discussion of the application of the Alexander Technique in an Undergraduate Dance Programme with particular reference to De Montfort University aimed at identifying and assessing a possible Alexander Technique model for Dancers

2629 - The role of physical and aesthetic consciousness in butoh. The interplay between the internal training processes of butoh and the presentation of the butoh body in performance

2630 - Physical Presence in Dance, Theatre and Dance-Theatre; A critical evaluation of stage practices throughout the 20th century

2631 - Dance on Screen: A Site and Time Specific Art-Form. Maya Deren "A Study in Choreography for the Camera"

2632 - The physically disabled dancer: a restricted performer or a narrow-minded spectator?

2633 - Seeking and Finding Embodied Identities in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001)

2634 - Gender, Androgyny and Seduction: A Critical Comparative Analysis of Live Performances of Light Years from Kylie Minogue's 2000 and 2002 World Tours

2635 - Dancing Inside: An Evaluation of the HMP Dovegate Dance Included Project

2636 - A Dance Architectonic: Structural Dynamics and Active Space in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham

2637 - Power and the Pole: A Study or Women's Experiences of Pole Dancing Lessons in London

2638 - Resistant Identities: Philippine Dance as Politics

2639 - Variable Images and Elusive Heroes: An Evaluation of the Male Ballet Dancer's Image

2640 - Dance for Dyspraxic Children: An Investigation into the Potential for Dance Tuition to Improve the Abilities of Dyspraxic Children

2641 - The Integration of Dance and Technology in Merce Cunningham's Performance

2642 - Bollywood in the West: Bollywood Imagery in Western Film, Music Video and Musical

2643 - Efficient and Effective Use of the Spine and its Effect on the Practice of Improvisation in Dance

2644 - Choreocinema

2645 - An Investigation of the Capoeira Manifestation with Particular Reference to the Concept of the Female Practitioners Subordination

2646 - Movement Observation in a Therapeutic Process with Anorexia Nervosa Patients: LMA as a Tool for Diagnosis and Treatment

2647 - The Female Dancer and Representations of the Female in Balinese Dance

2648 - The Feldenkrais Method: Functional Integration and Its Application to People with Neurological Disorders

2649 - Making Some Noise for Brazil: Channelling and Silencing Revolutionary Practices through Samba

2650 - An Exploration into the Movement Quality of an Individual with Down Syndrome: A Case Study Approach

2651 - The Application of Laban Movement Analysis to Actor Training

2652 - An Investigation on How Religious Belief and National Identity Influence the Reconstruction of Dunhuang Dance in Contemporary China and Taiwan

2653 - An investigation into how and why massage is a somatic therapy, using Thai massage as an example

2654 - Gender Morphology in Les Noces: prismatic choreological and musicological occurances

2655 - Exploring the process of adjustment of Labananalysis to actor training

2656 - Breakdance, Whose Identity is it?

2657 - An analysis of Rosemary Butcher's approach to Conceptual art notions within dance

2658 - Somatic Movement Education and Wellbeing: An Investigation

2659 - Desire and far away lands: Orientalism and Exoticism in 19th century ballets

2660 - The Pilates Method as a Somatic Practice

2661 - What is meant by and experienced as the 'authentic' in Authentic Movement?

2662 - Re-Thinking Performance: Insight into FOI by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

2663 - Laban Movement Analysis as a Tool to Investigate Movement Characteristics of Depressive, Female Adolescents

2664 - Moving Beneath the Surface: Unleashing the paradoxical potential of community dance

2665 - Uncovering the Individual: An insight into the Silences in History

2666 - Is Icelandic Dance, Icelandic?

2667 - 'Keeping It Real': Documenting the Experience of Dance in David LaChapelle's Rize

2668 - Becoming Ritual An Investigation of Movement in Liminality

2669 - Sinequanon: An Investigation of Postmodern Dance in Greece

2670 - Governing Bodies: Community Dance Values and Capitalist Society

2671 - Abhinaya Themes in Indian Classical Kathak Dance. A Contextual reading in relation to pre-modern and modern Indian society

2672 - Wittgenstein, Rules, Dance and Choreography

2673 - Audio Describing Dance in Film, A case study of Dirty Dancing

2674 - "Get 'Em Off!" Exposing Gender Construction and The Erotic Form in Male Neo Burlesque Striptease

2675 - "A Step out of Line: The Role and Value of Dance in the Musical"

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J - Videos accompanying dissertations