Date of Award
Spring 5-16-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
MA - Master of Arts
Department
Expressive Therapies
Advisor
Meg Chang, Ed.D., BC-DMT
Abstract
Abstract
This arts-based autoethnography research aims to analyze the researcher’s personal reflections of cultural embodied experiences through the connection of Thai cultural dance movements, cultural patterns, and expressive behaviors in Thai cultural contexts. These also reflected the researcher’s personal-identity and self-concept. As cultural dance has impacts on social structures and human behaviors both physically and psychologically in social interactions throughout the developmental lifespan, the researcher was inspired by the concept of Choreometrics to look closely at personal dance experiences in relation to Thai culture. This autoethnography is a case study of the researcher who identifies as Thai and reflects her experiences through the lens of an international student in the US. This paper also indicates how cultural dance/movement pieces can be effective therapeutic tools for an individual’s reflecting and enhancing self-identities and self-concepts in different cultural environments. This case study may be beneficial for therapists to recognize the layers of one’s sense of self through cultural embodiments for current and future international students as well as for different types of immigrants or refugees in therapy sessions.
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Recommended Citation
Buddee, Naowarat, "How Choreometrics Reflects Self-identity and Self-concept Through Cultural Dance: A Developing Method" (2020). Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses. 333.
https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_theses/333
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