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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Dance Choreography"”.
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Tap Dance Choreography: An exploration of tradition and innovation
Tap dance is a genuine American art form that has evolved from consolidated traditions to unexpected innovations in its technique and aesthetic. With awareness to social and cultural contexts, I aim to clarify the cyclical process between tradition and innovation in tap dance choreography. Through …
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Dance For Life: Exploring Dance Choreography and Performance as a tool for Educating the University Community about College Student Suicide
Looking for ways that dance could be used as a tool for health promotion, I sought to explore dance choreography and performance as an alternative medium for educating and increasing awareness about college student suicide. Suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst college students and …
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Dancing cheek to cheek : haptic communication between partner dancers and swing as a finite state machine
… one leading and the other following, swing dance together is to watch a remarkable two-agent communication and control system in action. Even blindfolded, the follower can decode the leader's moves from haptic cues. The leader composes the dance from the vocabulary of known moves so as to …
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Methods of Surrealism and Intermedial Contemporary Dance
… 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 that is organic …
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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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Activating Agon in performance
… and expanded beyond the physical struggle in dance choreography. The performances offered audiences and performers access to the range and dimensions of agon, which especially in the later works, came to affirm and celebrate life. Vahla’s process led to a particular kind of hybridity based on …
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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
… 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 these are led by …
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Somatosensory wearable technology in the dance making process: investigating digital touch in the formation of creative movement and kinaesthetic awareness
… touch stimuli in the creative context of making dance. This was enabled by designing, producing, and using two prototypes in workshops with students, experienced dance artists, and educators. This research collected qualitative data via embodied methods, including video footage, the researcher as …
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Dancing in the Dark: described dances and unseen choreographies
… of sight as the primary sense for experiencing dance performance can instigate new choreographies that embody the interplay between seen and unseen, described and not described, inside and outside, subject and object. By ‘unseen’ I mean invisible to the eye but potentially available to other …
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Unresolved Differences: Choreographing Community in Cross-Generational Dance Practice
… informed the dominant rhetoric in the Community Dance sector since the 1970s, and formed the conditions of possibility for Cross-generational Dance, a reciprocal relationship between discourse and practice that has arguably been overlooked in the historiography of Community Dance. Framed by …
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In Momentum: The Navigation, Narration, and Negotiation of Continuing Professional Development by Mid-Career Artists in South West England
… desk-based research; observation and attendance at artist-led seminars and practice groups were also used. The research contrasts two CPD Schemes: The Contemporary Craft Fellowship Scheme, and The Artist as Cultural Agent: DIY. The thesis includes a policy and provision review of CPD …
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Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide to Storytelling through Dance and Movement
… In a musical, text, song, movement, and dance tell a story. In Music Theatre, when a character can no longer express what they desire in words, they sing. If singing cannot satisfy the need, the element of dance comes into play. Richard Kislan states, "What sets dance apart is the …
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Design-in-Motion: Choreosonic Wearables in Performance
… the choreographic space of real-time interactive dance performance through experimentation with specially designed audiophonic wearables. The fashion design-led interdisciplinary concepts presented here challenge movement processes and perceptions of the role of costume within dance and the …