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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Contemporary dance"”.
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Methods of Surrealism and Intermedial Contemporary Dance
… referred to as automatism within the setting of contemporary dance. The research acknowledges the origins of the Surrealist movement, the use of automatism across various disciplines, and its application within the thesis research. The practice of automatism is used to generate unique movement …
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Performing Space: A Center for Contemporary Dance
Contemporary dance is an evolving art form, exploring the range of the body's movement, from the informal to the formal, pushing the boundaries between performer and audience. As contemporary dance has developed, so has the nature of, and spaces for, performance--what was once a privileged and …
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A contemporary dance company and performance areas
Contemporary art manifested as a reaction or addition to preceding arts. It either developed as a stark opposing contrast, or borrowed from the original in attempts to expand. This is equally true for all branches of art, including architecture and dance. This dissertation investigates dance and …
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Cardiorespiratory fitness in contemporary dance training and performance
… and importance of cardiorespiratory fitness in contemporary dance training and performance. Through an initial introduction and literature review, gaps in the current understanding of, and challenges presented by, dance training and performance practices are highlighted, as are five commonly …
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Negotiating difference: exploring masculinity and disability in contemporary dance
… pertaining to masculinity and disability in dance. Existing scholarship on masculinity, disability and dance respectively, seldom bring these three themes into conversation with each other, missing opportunities to examine the nuances of masculinity. Through an ethnographic study, I …
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Clowndance: Convergences in contemporary dance and theatrical clowning for pleasure-led performer training
… existing professional work across the borders of dance and clown. The central research aim is to develop Clowndance; an innovative pleasure-led approach to physical performer training located at the convergence of theatrical clowning and contemporary dance. Clowndance has been explored and …
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Evaluation of physical fitness in relation to performance and injury severity in contemporary dance
Dance has attracted little scientific interest on the effects of physical fitness improvements on performance and injury severity, particularly with respect to contemporary dance. The main aims of the current work were: a) to observe the physical demands of dance performance; b) to develop a …
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Enacting (Re)Actions: Affect Theory and Embodied Resonance in Improvisational Contemporary Dance and Compositional Pedagogy
… of the current educational approach to dance composition in secondary schools in New South Wales (NSW) are expressed through its curriculum. The NSW Dance syllabus currently restricts choreographic potential through the limiting requirements and measures articulated in its discourse. …
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Contemporary dance festivals in the former Yugoslav space, 2007-2017: the imperceptible politics of curatorial praxis
… on festival studies, curatorial practices and contemporary dance. The concept of imperceptible politics proposed by sociologists Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos (2008: 71-82), characterised by forms of escape and subversion, is used to analyse the selected …
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Dance interpretation and the cultural institution: exploring the condition(s) of british and french contemporary dance in the 1990s
… is intended and understood as the meaning of contemporary dance in its sociocultural context, in which the role of the state is a significant factor. It investigates the extent to which the structures and practices of public arts funding influence the production and reception of contemporary …
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Emancipating the Dancing Body: Bridging the Interdependency of Aesthetic Theory with Separated Roles in Contemporary Dance to Solidify the Phenomenology of Creative Movement Causation
… informs and deepens the practice of improvised contemporary movement forms. This theoretical methodologys construction also initiates a unique aesthetic theory that can be used for solidifying an improvisational creative process. The unveiling of concealed convergences eventually resonates with …
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Interrogating the nature, process and politics of female headed dance collaborations: the growth project (Scenkonst Sӧrmland, Sweden & Baxter Theatre Centre, Cape Town, South Africa) 2012-2016
… dissertation seeks to investigate the nature of Contemporary Dance collaborations between some South African dancers in the Western Cape and Swedish musicians and dancers and their directors and producers. My study focusses on the impact of choreographic processes in such collaborations when …
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Meu encontro com a cobra coral e outros cobrasinofensivas: mulheres negras em situação de dança
… snake and other harmless snakes: black women ina dance situation”, is built in the Postgraduate in Dance at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and is inserted in line 2, Processes and Configurationsin Dance. The main problem that arises is the condition of invisibility andhypervisibility of …
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Speakingdance: a concept-based practice for the performance of being
Speakingdance is a new concept-based approach to dance practice, in which a dancer’s sense of being is performed. The practice provides a meaningful purpose for speech in contemporary dance and challenges objective perceptions of a dancer. Philosophical writing about speech and being provides a …
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Dancing the Other in South Africa
At the centre of discourse of Dance in South Africa is the notion of Other. The form and approach in Contemporary Dance in South Africa in the 21st century has been shaped by cultural forces such as apartheid and colonialism. This thesis sets out a phenomenological study of Othering in Dance in …
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Nostrovia: Methods in Creating Immersive Theatre for Audiences
… process and politics of creating an immersive dance theatre experience. Nostrovia was performed January 16th -18th 2020 at The Peacock Public House and reimagines the historical narrative of the Romanov family. This thesis begins with an overview of participatory movements and presentations …
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Dance Science, Somatic Movement, and Embodied Human Flourishing in and through Canadian Undergraduate Dance Degree Programs
Dance in higher education needs to be re-imagined in response to the increasing precarity and complexity of the 21st century. Preparing students for flourishing futures is often frustrated by dominant dance discourses and imitation teaching that perpetuate outdated narratives, teaching methods, and …
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Shifting Interfaces: art research at the intersections of live performance and technology
… of creative process in the field of contemporary dance. It comprises thirty written works published from 1999 to 2007 in various formats and platforms. This collection is framed by a methodological discussion that provides insight into how this research has intersected over time with …
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