Faculty publications from the Department of Dance at LMU can be found here.

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Theses from 2022

When Dance Needs Words — ISHIDA Continues to Push the Limits of Contemporary Dance in Houston, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2021

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Giving Voice, Jill Nunes Jensen

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2018

Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Counterpoints, Jill Nunes Jensen

Extensions, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2015

Network of Pointes (Conversations Issue 2015), Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2014

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One Foot Inside the Circle: Contemporary Dance of Los Angeles Steps Outside Postmodernism and into Neo-Modernism-with-a-Twist, Teresa L. Heiland

Review of Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2012

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Examining the Affects of Four Mental Images on Student Dancers' Jumping Height, Teresa Heiland

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Visual, Auditory, and Tactile Images' Effects on Plié Arabesques, Teresa Heiland

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Effects of Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Imagery Interventions on Dancers’ Plié Arabesques, Teresa Heiland and Robert Rovetti

Theses from 2010

Creating a Contemporary Archive: Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Twenty-five, Jill Nunes Jensen

Review of “Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d’Action to Merce Cunningham”, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2009

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Constructionist Dance Literacy: Unleashing the Potential of Motif Notation, Teresa Heiland

Transcending Gender in Ballet’s LINES, Jill Nunes Jensen

Theses from 2008

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Body Image of Dancers in Los Angeles: The Cult of Slenderness and Media Influence Among Dance Students, Teresa Heiland, Darrin S. Murray, and Paige P. Edley

OutLINES for a Global Ballet Aesthetic, Jill Nunes Jensen