Title
The Means to Escape
Year of Graduation
2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
MFA: Dance
Directing Professor
Jeffery Bullock
Abstract
This research interrogates what it means to utilize escapism, transforming it from passive to active consumption, drawing strong ties between performance and social media. Through audience awareness and participation, this research aims to cultivate a social collective within performance viewing and social media. Framing escapism as a social collective experience resists contemporary notions suggesting that escapism is an individual experience. This work argues that social media and performance have become a space allowing for social collective awareness. Thus, escaping together is the only way to move forward.
Recommended Citation
McKenna, Devonn, "The Means to Escape" (2022). Dance (MFA) Theses, Hollins University. 17.
https://digitalcommons.hollins.edu/dancetheses/17
Performance Access Statement
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