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Mythology as Dance: The Missing Link to Civilizations
Mindi Bishop
Lees-MacRae College
Advisor: Kacy Crabtree
Mindi Bishop, dance educator, costume designer and performer, is originally from Miami, Florida and was elected into Nu Delta Alpha, the National Dance Association Honor Society.
For the past several years, Mindi has been an active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a not-for-profit educational living history group studying and recreating the Renaissance and Middle Ages. As a member, Mindi has researched, designed and made several costumes spanning over a 1000 year time period from many cultures, including Greek, Viking, Middle Eastern, and 13th to 15th Century English and French fashion. She has won SCA awards and competitions for her research and projects in the needlework, embroidery and beadwork techniques of those cultures and time periods.
Mindi has been dancing for over 20 years; among her performances have been with American Ballet Theatre principles and Rudolf Nureyev at the Jackie Gleason Theater for the Performing Arts. She studied with dance masters Henry LeTang, Scott Benson, Judy Ann Bassing and Savion Glover while earning a degree in Performing Arts Studies; she is now an adjunct dance instructor at her alma mater, Lees-McRae College.
In her award-winning paper, Mythology as Dance: The Missing Link to Civilizations, Mindi explores how dance and mythology are harmoniously divine.