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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Dance Research"”.
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“NYAM CHIEM” RECONSTRUCTING AND PERFORMING NIGHTMARE: A DANCE RESEARCH IN PERFORMANCE OF SLEEP PARALYSIS.
This paper is a documentation of a practice-based dance work of the creative process, research and performance presentation of the piece “Nyam chiem.” This thesis examines the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through a personal reflexive research. The work challenges the notion that sleep paralysis is …
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Choreographic Research Combining Contact Improvisation and the Alexander Technique: Somatic, Practice-Based-Research, and Ethnographic Inquiry
Somatic practices, practice-based-research (PBR) and ethnography contextualize this choreographic research that moves from the studio/stage to the desk. My project investigates how integrating the Alexander Technique (AT) and Contact Improvisation (CI) principles, combined with theoretical studies …
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Students' Experiences of Dance: a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
… in education today tends to reduce the value of dance. Research on dance in education is very limited. Recent reviews of research on the arts in education propose that research has to move from exploring transfer effects of artistic activity towards exploring the meaningfulness of the arts …
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Butoh-Ballet
… to distill a theme, Butoh-Ballet. A qualitative research approach was undertaken for this study following a short series of dance workshops in butoh carried out on four members of Cape Town City Ballet company, in Cape Town, in 2013. This dissertation will show how butoh could contribute to …
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Resistance training and its improvement on passive and active range of motion and performance within young adult female jazz dancers: a literature review and intervention study
Resistance training programmes within dance have been thoroughly researched in the genres of ballet, contemporary and modern dance. There is a gap in the research on the style of jazz dance which inspired the current literature review and intervention study. The literature review investigated …
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An exploration of the work of David Bintley, a very ‘English’ choreographer, with particular reference to his use of English Morris dance in Still Life at the Penguin Café and the process of translating ‘genuine’ English Morris dance to a theatrical environment.
… which he has drawn from English Cotswold Morris dance in the Humboldt’s Hog-nosed Skunk Flea section of the ballet. The comparison between Bintley’s selection of movements and their traditional Morris dance counterparts is based on findings from extensive fieldwork conducted with Morris dance …
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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. …