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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Classical dance"”.
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Undoing Angashuddhi: Interrogating Indian Classical Dance and the Nation
For the layperson, Indian classical dance is an ancient Indian art. When classical dancers perform, the audience ordinarily views the performance as an authentic representation of the art of the temple dancer or courtesan from centuries ago. An ancient Hindu dramatic treatise called the …
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The reinvention of tradition: Transformation of Chinese water sleeve dance and Tai Ji in contemporary performer training and performance making
… tradition in China through the examination of dance practices. First, this research focused on the continuity of tradition demonstrated in the development of Chinese classical dance. Second, it concentrated on the malleability and applicability of two representative Chinese cultural dance …
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An analysis of three choreographic works : old friends, sacred spirits and cool wind blowing
… Between 1979 and 2000, I created a number of dance works for CAPAB Ballet Company (now Cape Town City Ballet Company) and the University of Cape Town Ballet School (now UCT School of Dance). The works were all choreographed in a classical ballet style in which I was trained from the age of …
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"""The friendship of peoples"": Soviet ballet, nationalities policy, and the artistic media, 1953-1968"
"This project places the art form of Soviet classical ballet within the political and cultural context of the Khrushchev-era Thaw. It traces the Soviet Union's long-standing nationalities policy--envisioned by Lenin even before 1917 and championed by Stalin throughout his tenure--and its connection …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… South India—Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam dance—share complex and deeply intertwined histories. It addresses the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the 1950s, which were decades marked by distinctly new intermedial modes of cultural production in …
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Developing and evaluating a model for human motion to facilitate low degree-of-freedom robot imitation of human movement
… using motion capture data from a trained ballet dancer, a discussion of the differences between two Indian classical dance styles is included that shows that verticality alone is not representative of all motion and prompts a further analysis to develop socially adaptive robot behavior. …
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Classicism on the threshold of modernity: expanding the physical parameters of Odissi Dance for contemporary audiences
… examines the present practice of Odissi, the classical dance form of Orissa in Eastern India, with the view to identifying its strengths as a performing art and building on them. The objectives were to share this dance tradition both on stage and in the studio, not just as a stylised Indian …
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Influências da Dança Clássica e Hip-Hop em jovens praticantes em centros de dança
Dissertação de Mestrado em Arte e Educação apresentada à Universidade Aberta
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A dança espetáculo : uma análise semiótica
The thesis provides theoretical basis for dance-show semiotics. First, the presence of the body in semiotics is discussed, in addition to the importance of sensitive body creating synesthesias in dance. Then, aesthetic effects in dance are defined, as per Greimas' postulations in "De l' …