Date of Award
Spring 2023
Document Type
Restricted Multi-media
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Self-Determined Majors
First Advisor
Gwen D'Arcangelis
Second Advisor
Lisa Grady-Willis
Abstract
Movement, Daoism, and Social Action is an interdisciplinary senior self-determined Social Justice Studies project that resulted in a research paper and pilot movement workshop. Leventhal wishes to create a social action-oriented movement workshop. To do so, she wrote the research paper, "'Stepping on Each Other's Toes': An Analysis of Cultural Appropriation Through Chinese Medicine and Internal Arts Practices & Possible Applications for Social Action". The paper reviews existing literature on cultural appropriation, applies key concepts to case studies of East Asian cultural appropriation, and analyzes them to construct new theory on how to share culture without reproducing harm. Leventhal then uses these new guidelines to design and facilitate her workshop, titled "Movement, Daoism, and Social Action".
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Recommended Citation
Leventhal, Lea, "Movement, Daoism, and Social Action" (2023). Self-Determined Majors Final Projects. 15.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/sdm_stu_schol/15
Workshop outline for "Movement, Daoism, and Social Action" pilot movement workshop class
Lea SDM Coda.jpg (331 kB)
Flyer for "Movement, Daoism, and Social Action"