Description
Bisexuality is a unique kind of sexual identity, as a gray area between heterosexuality and homosexuality. The piece You made up the Story and I Played with all the Parts explores bisexuality as a lived artistic experience based on my sexual journey within a society that advocates heterosexuality. The piece includes movement phrases and text derived from conversations with intimate partners, characters based on former partners, storytelling, a 1950s-style sex education video parody, and audience participation via dialogue. The creation of movement and dialogue manipulated heteronormative social stigmas into a canny social acceptance of bisexuality. The multifaceted nature of the piece provokes viewers to consider how sexuality is constructed socially through my own interpretation. As a result, the work suggests that bisexuality is a legitimate sexual identity and represents a culture within American society.
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Title
- Me, myself and BI: an expression of sexuality
Contributors
- Bedford, Crystal (Author)
- Corey, Frederick (Thesis advisor)
- Dove, Simon (Thesis advisor)
- Jackson, Naomi (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2011
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thesisPartial requirement for: M.F.A., Arizona State University, 2011
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bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 22)
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Field of study: Dance
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Crystal Bedford