Date of Award

Spring 5-3-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

Dance

First Advisor

Maura Donohue

Second Advisor

Laura Brungard

Academic Program Adviser

Maura Donohue

Abstract

A defense for Gia Binner’s MFA Thesis, Meet and Run, argues that accessible art, known in this paper as commercial dance, is a meaningful vehicle for social change and that it has the ability to dismantle the outdated, European concert dance dominance by modeling the interdependency of both worlds.

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