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1940s advertisements reflecting extreme gender norms 

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1940s advertisements reflecting extreme gender norms 

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We feel this advertisement represents the intensity of gendered expectations placed on female identifying bodies over time. It displays an extremely heightened beauty standard and home-making standard, depicting the unfairly expected and often disregarded work of women. We hope to incorporate some of the actions associated with these expectations in our choreography.

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This work by Peter Chu incorporates some thematic ideas we hope to invoke through our piece. The notion of "masking" he centers throughout the work and its relation to entrenched ideas of beauty standards, both physical and emotional, is something we want to draw inspiration from.

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Smile Masking — chuthis. | choreography by Peter Chu

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Excerpt of journal article: ‘Because it is beautiful’: new feminist perspectives on beauty

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Excerpt of journal article: ‘Because it is beautiful’: new feminist perspectives on beauty

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1464700106064424
We feel that this introduction encapsulates many of the questions we hope to center the work around. It centers the complex relationships between beauty, harm, feminism, aesthetic, and morality that we want to investigate throughout the piece.

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This ongoing playlist will contain music and recordings we feel relate to our concept, mood, tone, or desired sound.

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We want the color scheme of our costumes to be black and white, with a vintage/old-time aesthetic that highlights the prevalence of beauty standards throughout time.

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We want the color scheme of our costumes to be black and white, with a vintage/old-time aesthetic that highlights the prevalence of beauty standards throughout time.

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We want the color scheme of our costumes to be black and white, with a vintage/old-time aesthetic that highlights the prevalence of beauty standards throughout time.

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We want to utilize makeup as a source of color in our piece to juxtapose the black & white costume aesthetic. Throughout the piece, we want to play with how we can use makeup to portray beauty & ugliness. How can we oppose societal beauty standards by creating an "ugly" look through exaggerated makeup and a "beautiful" look with natural, stark features?

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We want the color scheme of our costumes to be black and white, with a vintage/old-time aesthetic that highlights the prevalence of beauty standards throughout time.

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Costume Changes, Destruction of Typical "Beauty"

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Costume Changes, Destruction of Typical "Beauty"

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Throughout the piece, we want to incorporate costume changes/removal of layers. This may start with a more exaggerated sense of beauty (that really looks/feels ugly) and morph into a stripped down, stark, and natural aesthetic (that feels more truly beautiful)... or we may incorporate a traditional sense of beauty to begin that gets destroyed towards the end of the piece into a stark, ugly feeling.

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This image represents a correlation between beauty and harm, a complex interrelation we want to explore in the piece.

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The Symbolism of a Woman Getting Ready at Her Vanity

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The Symbolism of a Woman Getting Ready at Her Vanity

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We are interested in possibly incorporating a table, mirror, or vanity as a prop in order to further convey the expectation of beauty standards and set the stage for the work.

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An image that portrays the aesthetic and emotional feel we want to incorporate.

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We found such advertisements to relate to the questions provoked by Warhol's Liz Taylor, for they further outline rigid ideas around female-identifying beauty. We also felt that some elements of the graphic design, such as the figure's hand positioning, might be interesting as an impetus for gesture phrase work.

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The Art Institute of Chicago describes that in this work, Taylor's "signature features — her eyes and lips — have been accentuated with colors that hover between vibrant and vulgar. This garish use of 'makeup' is meant to suggest style and glamor, reinforcing Taylor’s celebrity status.” This description provoked questions for us around how the work simultaneously lauds and problematizes the longstanding markers of "beauty" entrenched in our cultural understandings. It made us questions what "glamor" truly is, and if the toil and oppressive circumstances linked to it might void the term of any true meaning. We are interested in exploring such questions within the piece.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/229406/liz-3-early-colored-liz