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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Choreographers"”.
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Video annotation for choreographers on the NB platform
… has been adapted to suit the needs of dance choreographers. A Video Annotator was developed, and features requested by choreographers were added to help suit the platform to their needs. The updated annotator was then subjected to user testing to determine more ways in which software can be …
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Dance Artists’ and Choreographers’ Financial Sustainability in New York City Under the CreateNYC Cultural Plan
New York City is brimming with a plethora of diverse art, performances, exhibits, and communities, sparking many people to regard it as the Cultural Capital of the World. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) has been a longtime supporter of the arts in New York City. In 2017, the …
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Mass choreography in modern Olympic ceremonies. The emergence of a choreographic line between the period 1984 and 2016
… identify the correlation between Chabola and the choreographers Doug Jack and Bryn Walters, who produced multiple mass choreographies for the Olympic Games in Europe and America in the period from the late 1990s to 2016. In order to understand their characteristics and possible mutual influence …
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Tap Dance Choreography: An exploration of tradition and innovation
… the aesthetics developed by avant-garde female choreographers, and detailed description of my own creative process, I address choreographic possibilities in which tap dancing can evolve based on the relationship between tradition and innovation inherent to this dance form. With a research scope …
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Artistic Landscapes: Dancing Beyond the Stage; An Investigation of 1960s Site-Specific Dance Through the Chorography f Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown and Twyla Tharp
… conceptual art in the art world. Many of the choreographers’ work involved site-specific dances placed in environmental locales, but were not limited to such locations. This thesis will focus on the contributions made by three of the most dedicated site-specific choreographers during the …
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An Inquiry into the Creative Process of Butoh: With Reference to the Implications of Eastern and Western Significances
… in this thesis to explore the implications for choreographers of the choreographic options employed in Butoh creative processes. Phenomenology corresponds to the Japanese philosophical context which gave birth to Butoh, elucidating the worldview merging with the universe which underpins Butoh. …
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British Dance and the African Diasporas, the Discourses of Theatrical Dance and the Art of Choreography: 1985 to 2005
… which draws on African and Diaspora forms. Most choreographers who work with these forms in Britain are usually of African or Caribbean descent and are racially black. I call the theoretical approach the choreosteme. I use the theoretical approach to historicise some of the developments that take …
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Expanding the Object: Post-conceptual dance and choreographic performance practices
… arguing for the multiplicity of roles that choreographers, and by extension dancers, take on at the beginning of the 21st century. My interdisciplinary research draws from a variety of theoretical discourses including performance theory, visual cultures and critical theory, and is therefore …
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Choreographic Research Combining Contact Improvisation and the Alexander Technique: Somatic, Practice-Based-Research, and Ethnographic Inquiry
… for dancers, teachers, researchers and choreographers. I primarily ask: What theoretical and methodological principles guide my dance research in order to move beyond teaching dance technique or choreographing a piece? To address my inquiries, I choreographed, danced and taught with …
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Digital Illustration: The Costume Designer’s Process For East Tennessee State University’s Spring Dance Concert 2012
… a compressed timeframe: 1 artistic director, 9 choreographers, 20 dances, 46 performers, 10 lighting designers, 1 costume designer, and 3 weeks to put it all together. Incorporating digital technology into the rendering process saved time, expenses, and helped clarify the designer's choices. …
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Choreographic assemblages : an archaeology of movement and space
… in relation to space. By using notation, choreographers develop a general structure to document the accommodation of music, movements and patterns of a dance composition. A dance composition is an aesthetic entity existing in the four dimensions of space-time. Different styles of dance …
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Intimate Encounters; Staging Intimacy and Sensuality
… show. Some of the research includes influential choreographers and companies such as Pina Bausch, Graziela Daniele, Moses Pendleton, Pilobolus, Momix, Julie Tayrnor, and Merce Cunningham. Included in the analysis of this event are the experiences and lessons that came about during the process of …
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Dancing cheek to cheek : haptic communication between partner dancers and swing as a finite state machine
… between a small number of poses. Two automated choreographers are presented. One uses an optimization and randomization scheme to compose dances by a sequence of shortest path problems, with edge lengths measuring the dissimilarity of dance moves to each bar of music. The other solves a …
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Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation
… The Performance of Relation</em>, explores how choreographers and theater artists in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City used time and space to involve their audiences experientially in the project of grieving and rebuilding in the midst of the temporal chaos of mass death …
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Shifting Interfaces: art research at the intersections of live performance and technology
… might augment the creative process of expert choreographers and dancers. This shift from software use to its design, framed by a focus on the development of tools to support dance creation, also provided strong rationale to deepen the research into dance making processes. In the second major …
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Designing and performing non-binary dance
… performers. While modern dance and contemporary choreographers have expanded the vocabulary of dance in exciting ways, a rigid gender binary persists in much of dance today. Non-binary dance is a method of challenging gender norms within the dance world; a way for non-binary people to …
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… dating between 1975-2020 by five women choreographers from Europe, Japan, and Korea—Pina Bausch, Eiko Otake, Mette Ingvartsen, Gisèle Vienne, and Geumhyung Jeong. I trace the authentic ways in which materiality becomes an active participant in the meaning-making, composition, and …
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Choreographing the extended agent : performance graphics for dance theater
… collaborations with two of the greatest choreographers working today; new pieces that combine dance and interactive projected light using real-time motion capture live on stage. The existing field of"dance technology" is one with many problems. This is a domain with many practitioners, …
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I/O-Automata based formal approach to Web Services Choreography
… composition by developing a set of site-specific choreographers working concurrently to implement a desired goal service. Each communication/computation is quantified by a cost. We develop algorithms that takes as input the existing services, the goal service, the costs and produces as an output a …
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Idea and community : the growth of David Tudor's Rainforest, 1965-2006
… community of artists, engineers, composers and choreographers surrounding Tudor, for the development of each version of Rainforest. In particular this thesis is concerned with Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), the "family" of younger composer-performers which developed Rainforest 4 with Tudor …
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