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Rough music, rough dance, rough play : misrule and Morris dance
England is home to a distinctive vernacular dance called Morris dance. One of the reasons that it is unique is because it is a secular dance that is displayed rather than performed as a medium for socializing. Questions often arise from audiences when they try to decode its symbolism and the …
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Dance and Sport
The purpose of this research is to investigate dance and sport as two individual yet intertwining fields. Areas of inquiry include the artistic/aesthetic sports of the Olympic Games particularly rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and ice dancing; the artistry and athleticism of …
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Pinky's Dance Hall
<p>Pinky's Dance Hall is a novel in progress that tells the story of several bartenders who work at a failing music venue in Columbus Ohio, and the escalation of cult-like abuse that is inflicted upon these bartenders by the venue's owner. Going back and forth in time, the narrative is built around …
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Café of Dance
A beginning of questions about architecture and humanity and searching for those answers that begin to initiate the process of design and improving the quality of life. This is an investigation and an understanding of those values which make a place unique. Once those attributes have been found …
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Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom
Billie's Message is a forty-five minute dance drama expressing through dance and narrative the life of Billie Holiday and the consequences of drug abuse in Holiday's life. It was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Education (MEd) degree. The project was presented …
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Toroidal Dance: A Yogic Perspective of Choreography, Transdisciplinarity, and Dance Dramaturgy
… practices and rooting myself in the framework of dance and spiritualities studies, I define my research as a toroidal fractal structure of seven layers, namely transdisciplinarity, yogic science (subtle nature), toroidal pattern, healing, dance dramaturgy (as subtle communication), …
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Challenges to dance teacher education : interrogating the training of dance teachers at the UCT School of Dance 2001-2008
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-119).
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Dance Music for Orchestra
Dance Music for Orchestra is a collection of three concise dance movements that are merged into one eight-minute overture-like work. These movements are meant to exaggerate the energy and spirit of the Op. 46 and Op.72 Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvořák. This is achieved through intricate, …
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Darśan - Dance for Kriśna
… Vṛndāvana. Here, they are encouraged to move, dance, and interact with their surroundings. By presenting ancient stories through new media technologies, "Darśana" explores the potential of modern technology to reinterpret and revitalize traditional practices and beliefs for contemporary …
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A school for dance
This project is a school for dance located in the Northwest of Washington, D.C. It functions mainly as a professional educational center for dance, but also offers classes to the community at night and on weekends. The school will accommodate up to 250 professional students and as many from the …
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Exploring dance: An outline for the study of dance appreciation with suggested films
Exploring Dance: An Outline for the Study of Dance Appreciation with Suggested Films surveys the history of the dance genres--ballet, ballroom, tap, and jazz--used in film musicals. Dance creators, their contributions to the art, as well as salient characteristics of each period are discussed. Each …
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Why we dance: a community autoethnographic study of four African American community dance artists
… American and other nonwestern and non-White dance traditions are a part of cultural expression, historic preservation, a reflection of lived experiences, and a part of everyday life. In many dance programs at colleges and universities, culturally specific dance practices are often not …
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Modern Dance: A Historical Consideration
… made an original contribution to the field of dance history. The nine selected published works—Volume 2—written over the course of three decades, consider modern dance between 1900 and 1945 and how its historical study illuminates this significant period. All these writings made contributions …
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Ghost Dance in 31 Movements
A kind of poetry that tries to understand contemporary social and philosophical issues as much as behaviors by rewriting in a poetic language the video artwork of some of the main representatives of modernism and postmodernism. Such poetry is deprived of confessional hues, any personal reference …
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Re-envisioning dance technique pedagogy
… practice-based research flows from the dance studio. It explores experiences of learning dance technique with groups of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. The study is contextually located within the multifaceted discourses of …
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