One More Run / Jonathan Golden (2025)

This document focuses on competition dance in the United States, from an anthropological and self-investigative lens. By including concepts of anthropology and the more specified field of anthropology of dance, I hope to guide readers through my own creative and academic processes and the manners in which I approach creative outputs. This introduction illustrated the competitive dance culture in the United States through my own experiences. From here, the work will branch out into a general literature review regarding the anthropology of dance and autoethnography. From here, the dissertation will analyze gender as both an overarching concept and how it relates to the competitive dance world. I will then explain some of my research questions and overarching methodology, as it relates back to anthropology, before delving into the creation of the actual work, which presented itself in two distinct iterations