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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Dance Studies"”.
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Becoming Undisciplined: Interdisciplinary Issues and Methods in Dance Studies Dissertations from 2007-2009
… the theoretical identity of the field of dance studies as an academic discipline and to produce a feminist intervention into the phenomena of disembodied scholarship, while asking questions about disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity within dance studies historically and today. My primary …
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An Applied Neurobiological Model Of Dance, Why It Matters, And How It Heals
Dance-based programs for neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinsons and Alzheimers (PD/AD) diseases are growing, with reported benefits including physical, cognitive, and affective improvements. This is not a new phenomenon; throughout history in cultures around the world, dance has played 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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Cadences of Choreomusicality: Investigating the Relationship Between Sound and Movement in Staged Performances of Popping and Animation in the United Kingdom
… related movement practices such as animation (in dance) and music in the United Kingdom. Through an experiential, choreographic and critical methodology, I consider the ways that popping artists are able to shift, bend and distort perceptions of their performances through complex uses of …
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Choreographing through an expanded corporeality
… relations between performer and audience. While dance studies has a well theorised frame of expanded choreography (Harvey, 2011), little attention has been paid to the possibilities inherent within an expanded corporeality. This research offers an original conception of how an expanded …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
… a methodology grounded in LMA and drawing from dance studies, feminist theory, and Disney scholarship, I interrogate popular conceptions of women and evil, articulate how movement contributes to cultural meaning, and demonstrate LMAs value to cultural analysis and animation.
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Black jazz-informed dance: The performance of rhetoric and resistance in Los Angeles-based Jazzantiqua Dance and Music Ensemble
… Black, Los Angeles-based, concert jazz dance company, JazzAntiqua Dance and Music Ensemble. In conversation with the fields of dance studies, rhetorical arts, and Black radical thought, this research pursues the question of how rhetoric is embodied through movement vocabularies that …
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A Study of Injury and its Prevention in First-Year University Dance Students
The subject of dance and injury has become an increasingly important area of study for sports medicine, education, and dance studies. However, the majority of current research focuses on professional dancers or pre-professional dancers in a conservatory training context. The research typically …
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Expanding the Object: Post-conceptual dance and choreographic performance practices
… the relationship between postconceptual dance and its state as object. As a practice-led research project it aims to do so both through the written thesis and through artistic practice, which is here presented as a series of video projects that extend representations of dance. Over five …
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Dance interpretation and the cultural institution: exploring the condition(s) of british and french contemporary dance in the 1990s
… 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 dance, …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… the effect of Soviet Union era indoctrination on dance pedagogy and performance at DanceSport studios run by Soviet migrants in Canada. I investigate the processes of cultural cross-pollination within this population through an analysis of first and second generation Soviet-Canadian ballroom …
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Developing creativity in exceptional young dancers: An investigation of the Dance4 Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) programme
… on the development of creativity in dance training for exceptional young dancers in the UK. The aim for this research is to articulate how creativity is conceptualised in dance training and to provide insight into how creativity might be further nurtured. The Dance4 Centre for …
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Choreographing postcolonial identities in Britain: Cultural policies and the politics of performance, 1983-2008
This thesis examines the way in which dance work produced by postcolonial dance artists is often misread and exoticised by critics, funders and audiences. Yet the works produced have a disruptive effect and are products and clear indications of the sometimes oppressive processes that create …
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Breaking my silence as a 'trained' dancer in post-apartheid South Africa
… the ramifications of indoctrination in dance. In 2017, during my Honours Degree in Dance Studies at the University of Cape Town, I created a poster-painting with a fellow #FeesMustFall artist-activist. This poster-painting, entitled, Amputation, was introduced at UCT School of Dance' …
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Practices of Rooting & Spaces of Performative Becoming: An Exploration of British Caribbean Diasporic Identities through Dance
… upon the work of theorists within Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Dance Studies and Postcolonial studies, including the work of Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Homi Bhabha, Paul Gilroy, W.E.B Du Bois, Rex Nettleford, Yvonne Daniels, and Susan Foster. This thesis reveals how choreography …
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Transmodern dance practices: Angelin Preljocaj, Mauro Bigonzetti and revisions of Les Noces (1923)
… of transmodernism in film and literature studies. Moving from an analysis of revisionist choreographic practices, my aim is to retrace the unwritten histories of particular revisions of Bronislava Nijinska's Les Noces (1923), namely those by Angelin Preljocaj and Mauro Bigonzetti. Whilst …
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A Guest Betwixt Margins and Memories: Navigating Diasporic Taiwanese Choreographic-Identity in Aotearoa
… experience, this research contributes to dance studies and arts-based scholarship, proposing new ways of understanding diasporic belonging, the creative potential of displaced nostalgia, and the politics of Taiwanese and diasporic identities in theatre, interdisciplinary arts, and …
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I Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses
… ecosomatic disenchantment. This intuitive, site dance, performance as research bridges movement-based somatic art (somadance) with movement-based performance art (eco-performance). "I Dance Land" ecosomatic land-based epistemology is a hand-based philosophy founded on values of co-creation, …
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Navigating Landscapes of Longing and Belonging: Dialogues of Capoeira and Welsh Folk Dance in Intercultural Performance
… and Brazil, that was co-led by myself, a Welsh dancer and choreographer and Brazilian musician and capoeirista, Ruan de Vargas. Perguntas & Atebion took place between Wales and Brazil with dancers, musicians and capoeiristas drawing upon their practices of capoeira and dawnsio gwerin (Welsh Folk …
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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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