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Social Impact in Performing Arts-Based Cultural Exchange UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Designing for Equity: Social Impact in Performing Arts-Based Cultural Exchange A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Culture and Performance by Sara Murdock 2018 © Copyright by Sara Murdock 2018 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Designing for Equity: Social Impact in Performing Arts-Based Cultural Exchange by Sara Murdock Doctor of Philosophy in Culture and Performance University of California, Los Angeles, 2018 Professor David H. Gere, Chair This dissertation focuses on the concept of social equity in the context of performing arts-based cultural exchange. The work draws upon with Performance Studies and Cultural Studies, reviews several examples through Critical Race Studies and Memory Studies lenses, and then makes advances in Whiteness Studies. All cases revolve around the performing arts as a vehicle for bridging difference. From a practical vantage, the dissertation reviews how organizations do or do not succeed in activating their intentions in an equitable fashion. The document culminates in a Checklist for Social Good, offering a tangible way to link programmatic intentions with implementation. Fieldwork cited includes interviews, ethnographies, and participant observations to determine how programmatic design within cultural exchange has affected social narratives, such as whose cultures have value and on whose terms the programs progress. The dissertation is ii particularly concerned with the ways in which different worldviews and cultures can communicate effectively so as to decrease violence and xenophobia. While no one means of communication across difference is superior, the project focuses on art, and specifically performance, as a means of dialogue and sense-based learning that augments other, sometimes superficial, forms of encounter. Chapter one sets the scene by positioning the author’s entry into the cultural exchange field, and goes on to explore the notion of exchange in general. It argues that learning and exchange are largely synonymous, and that both are sense-based processes that occur via the body. Chapters two and three review multiple organizations that utilize performing arts as a method for bringing together people from various parts of the world. Chapter two is dedicated to the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX), which opened questions regarding inter- ethnic communications and experimented with ways to talk about politics and barriers through performance aesthetics. Chapter three compares MovementExchange—an Edu-touristic model— with Puentes de Poder, which is dedicated to exploring African diasporic aesthetics. Both organizations work primarily in Panama City and in California. In each case, the intentions of the program’s founders were often lost or misaligned with the program design or implementation. One of the programs, Puentes de Poder, did have more success in aligning the founder’s objectives with her enactment because she was happy to wait for more equitable opportunities to implement. While her ability to wait harmed the organization on a financial basis, staying true to the vision meant that there was almost no discrepancy between goals and results, particularly in regards to the efficacy of intercultural communications. The first chapter introduces the notion of a Self/Other dialectic, which is then discussed in great detail in chapter four. Exploring the formation of Selfhood frames how humans develop iii fear of and/or exoticization of Others. This inquiry is crucial to understanding patterns of valuation and devaluation of entire cultures and of individual humans, and is thus related to both institutional treatment of groups and how humans behave on a daily basis. Chapter five focuses on assessing programmatic impact through the lens of Impact for Social Good. Although young and applied in varying ways across sectors, the framework is useful because it asks leaders to marry intention with output. The chapter reviews the attempts of several institutions to codify the concept of “social good” and what metrics might be used to assess its implementation. Based on my case study and theoretical work, I offer a Checklist for Social Good that organizational leaders can use to assess whether a project is socially equitable. While designed with international and intercultural collaboration in mind, the Checklist reflects power flows and the ways in which dominance or subjugations are insidiously ignored or perpetuated. The Checklist is highly accessible because it refrains from academic language, but is rigorous in that it requires serious reflection on how intentions are manifested in practice. While this dissertation incorporates a wide range of data, theories, and discussions, its overarching imperative is to highlight an assessment of “what is” within any given project in order to better support what “could be.” In the culminating pages, I note how the reaction to this project thus far has been one of agreement but also of a desire to ignore the topic. This project underscores prior work done on Self/Other, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Studies, and organizational assessments, thus adding valuable insight into how these topics fit together. Additionally, the project opens new discussions on Aesthetic Capital, Selfhood Capital, and Social Equity assessment that not only push academic discourse, but also address a humanistic inquiry into systems of power. iv The dissertation of Sara Murdock is approved. Mary Nooter Roberts Daniel G. Solórzano Cheng-Chieh Yu David H. Gere, Committee Chair University of California, Los Angeles 2018 v Designing for Equity: Social Impact in Performing Arts-Based Cultural Exchange Table of Contents Chapter 1 1 Exchange: What we Mean and What we Want to Mean Chapter 2 50 The Making of an Art Tank: Intercultural Encounters through Aesthetics and Institutions Chapter 3 93 Faces of Exchange: Cultural Legacy through Edu-tourism and Social Ethics Chapter 4 140 Social Imaginaries and other Simplifiers: Recognizing Whiteness and Power Flows Chapter 5 173 Assessing Equity: A Checklist for Social Good Works Cited 208 vi List of Figures Figure 1: Movement Exchange “Dance Diplomacy” Model 101 Figure 2: Time Magazine cover from November 1993 137 Figure 3: Time Magazine cover from November 2014 137 Figure 4: Social Equity Checklist, binary version 199 vii Academic Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION & TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (US) 2012-18 PhD expected, Culture & Performance, Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance • Projects: Archival research on Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Research on pedagogy in HK, Manila (PH), SG, Seoul (KR), Osaka (JP) Grant and project design for Puentes de Poder Exchange Program (PTY) • Service: Art Director for World Music & Movement Festival 2014-15 Communications Intern for World at Aratani Festival 2014-15 Student Affairs Office Assistant 2012-13 • Awards: Chair's Discretionary Award 2013-15, 17-18 Summer Research Fellowship 2013 Regents Scholarship 2012, 15-18 CREATIVE DANCE CENTER, Seattle (US) 2010 Certificate in BrainDance Eighty-hour Institute on movement pedagogy SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, Seattle (US) 2008-10 MA, Organizational Design; Focus: Art and Community • Thesis: Community formation through Creative Practice • Projects: Process Consultation of Student Affairs Office 2010 Designing and leading "Collaboration and Teaming" Seminar 2009 • Service: Design team for departmental conference 2010 Intern for Pomegranate Center’s Public Spaces art projects 2009-10 KENYON COLLEGE, Gambier (US) 2001-05 BA, Dance; American Studies (With Distinction) • Thesis: Byte (United States of Amnesia) performance, presentation, and paper • Projects: Research on Dance and Culture in Birmingham & Pittsburgh Original choreography of 5 dance works and performer in 15 dance works American College Dance Fest., Buffalo, NY 03 & Slippery Rock, PA 04 Four-month dance workshop for local teen girls at risk of expulsion Nine Ballroom Dance competitions through Great Lakes and NE 01-04 • Service: Hiring Committee for Visiting American Studies Professorship Representative for Dance, Drama, & Film Dept. Student Org. 03-05 Secretary for Ballroom Dance Team 01-04 TEACHING EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (US) 2012-18 • Fellow: Community Engagement Practicum Drama and Diversity History of Labor Movements in Los Angeles Community Engagement through the Arts Education Practicum (taught twice) viii Art in the Inclusive Classroom • Associate: Intro to Field Research Methods Art as Moral Action Indigenous Worldviews Intro to Folklore Studies • Assistant: Upper Division Writing (taught twice) Art as Social Action Transforming Teens through Pedagogy Introduction to Pedagogy AMERICAN MUSICAL & DRAMATIC ACADEMY, Los Angeles (US) 2016-18 Critical Studies Faculty for “Dance Theater History” and “Pop Iconography” PATH WITH ART, Seattle (US) 2011-12 Co-Facilitator for Movement for adults transitioning from homelessness BOSTON COLLEGE, Newton (US) 2006 Co-Teacher for “Elements of Dance” DANCE COLLECTIVE OF BOSTON INTENSIVE, Boston (US) 2005 Mentor and Performer OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE PGM (Purpose. Growth. Mastery.), California, Montana, and worldwide 2017-ongoing Co-Founder & Curriculum Director GRADUATE WOMEN INTERNATIONAL, Geneva and worldwide 2016-ongoing Education Working Group Chair and United Nations Delegate SAVE the ARTS AMERICA, Los Angeles 2017-18 Educational Partnerships Consultant WORLD DANCE ALLIANCE, Cholula (MX) & Adelaide
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