Proxima Will Freeze
Presentation Type
Presentation
Full Name of Faculty Mentor
Eric Schultz, Music; Dory Sibley, Theatre
Major
Theatre
Presentation Abstract
My Fellows project is a performance that’s going to be put on in the Edwards Black Box Theatre featuring the talent and creativity of my peers who are also theatre students. It is a collaborative piece meaning, the dancers, actors, and singers also double as choreographers, writers, and music directors. "Proxima Will Freeze" will question what it means to find yourself as a young woman and how the media has put a disgusting stigma around Lesbianism. Seeing this kind of representation of you can be so incredibly dangerous to a young person's identity and how they progress as their own person.My piece is about a girl in high school who struggles with figuring out who she is. She is in a long, seemingly happy heteronormative relationship when she watches a movie that makes her question her sexual identity while also perpetuating feelings of disgust with herself based on her liking what she’s just seen. As her mind wanders from herself, the "good, and bad" in her mind come to life and tell a story through beautiful movement and dance. She’s beat down and exhausted from her own self scrutiny and tries to overdose when she’s met by all of the people who love her singing to her. In an effort to survive with herself, she accepts that she’s gay. Despite all of the new movies representing gay people in a new light, lesbians are still very poorly represented, and when they are, it’s raunchy sex scenes only produced for the male gaze. This kind of narration causes so much internal turmoil for young girls and something needs to be done about it.
Start Date
13-4-2023 4:00 PM
End Date
13-4-2023 4:20 PM
Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
Recommended Citation
Walters, Avery, "Proxima Will Freeze" (2023). Undergraduate Research Competition. 117.
https://digitalcommons.coastal.edu/ugrc/2023/fullconference/117
Proxima Will Freeze
My Fellows project is a performance that’s going to be put on in the Edwards Black Box Theatre featuring the talent and creativity of my peers who are also theatre students. It is a collaborative piece meaning, the dancers, actors, and singers also double as choreographers, writers, and music directors. "Proxima Will Freeze" will question what it means to find yourself as a young woman and how the media has put a disgusting stigma around Lesbianism. Seeing this kind of representation of you can be so incredibly dangerous to a young person's identity and how they progress as their own person.My piece is about a girl in high school who struggles with figuring out who she is. She is in a long, seemingly happy heteronormative relationship when she watches a movie that makes her question her sexual identity while also perpetuating feelings of disgust with herself based on her liking what she’s just seen. As her mind wanders from herself, the "good, and bad" in her mind come to life and tell a story through beautiful movement and dance. She’s beat down and exhausted from her own self scrutiny and tries to overdose when she’s met by all of the people who love her singing to her. In an effort to survive with herself, she accepts that she’s gay. Despite all of the new movies representing gay people in a new light, lesbians are still very poorly represented, and when they are, it’s raunchy sex scenes only produced for the male gaze. This kind of narration causes so much internal turmoil for young girls and something needs to be done about it.