Honors Program
Fine and Performing Arts Honors
Date of Award
5-2025
Thesis Professor(s)
Cara Harker
Thesis Professor Department
Theatre and Dance
Thesis Reader(s)
Ante Ursic
Abstract
I have created a film entitled Redeemed, which utilizes the medium of dance to explore emotional devastation and restoration present throughout life. My experience as a kinesiology major with an exercise science concentration, dance minor, and fine and performing arts student at East Tennessee State University from 2021-2025 has ignited my desire to connect kinesthetic awareness, somatic movement, dance choreography, and improvisation in a way that is cathartic for both me as the choreographer/performer and the audience. My goal is to touch viewers on a soul level by embodying how it feels to truly and fully exist. This film consists of six scenes, each depicting a pair of opposing words that describe emotion I’ve felt in my own life. The first word is shown at the beginning of each scene, and with honesty and vulnerability I express my experiences through dance. Each word’s antithesis is shown at the end of its scene, reflecting the ways I have encountered transformation. My hope is that viewers are moved and inspired to reflect on redemptive moments in their own lives.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Oliver, Kasia D., "REDEEMED: A DANCE COMPOSITION AND ANALYSIS ON TRANSFORMATION" (2025). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 839. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/839
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.
