Attending the show alone: adventures of a female audience ethnographer

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Amanda Rossi (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Ana Paula Höfling

Abstract: Drawing from dance studies and audience studies literature, this thesis focuses on the author’s corporeality as she navigates the process of attending five live performances—ranging from plays for adults and children to music programs presented in informal theatrical spaces—at a local historical theater in Greensboro, North Carolina. Throughout the auto-ethnographic field research, from the ticket purchase process to the physical displacement to the theater (driving, parking, and walking through downtown Greensboro) to sitting alone in the audience, gender became a prominent aspect of the research, in particular the vulnerabilities of attending the theater alone as a female in her mid-twenties.

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Language: English
Date: 2020

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