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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Movement Practice"”.
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Being formless: a Daoist movement practice
This study aims to develop a Daoist movement practice. Based on qi-energy, Daoism, a Chinese ontological study of being, suggests that Dao is the formless changing of in-between being. I explore how the formless nature of Dao informs my own creative practice. I argue that formlessness signifies an …
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Dissolving Borders: The Integration of Writing into a Movement Practice
This thesis theorises the practice of three female British dance artists, Miranda Tufnell, Helen Poynor and Hilary Kneale. It engages with the central idea that a combined practice of creative writing and movement improvisation enhances the artist's articulation and assimilation of the experience …
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Between memory and movement: A dancing-womanist-scholar in, not of, kinesiology
… that it and other humanistic, subjective movement receive equal consideration as viable movement practice. To accomplish this, I explore how memories of my lived experiences, from childhood to my years in the department of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have …
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
This interdisciplinary practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing performers. The …
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The articulation of Sandinismo and of the 1980 national literacy campaign in Nicaragua
… the terms of popular identification and social movement practice in the late twentieth century.
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
… and vegetable consumption to radical social movements seeking symbols of non-capitalist social and spatial relations. This thesis contributes to a systematic research account of the Australian community gardening movement by considering community gardening as a site of collective social …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… protests by primarily left grassroots social movements in Bolivia's current political transformation. <em>Space claiming</em> includes mass protests that physically control or symbolically claim urban space through occupations of plazas and roads, sit-ins, blockades, and other measures. As a …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
This practice-led research examines the creative agency of costume through a phenomenological framework that defines the relationship between the designer’s body and materials within processes devised through this PhD. While scholarship on costume materiality and creative practice is gaining …
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On-Farm Apprenticeships: Labor Identities and Sociocultural Reproduction within Alternative Agrifood Movements
… work and rehearsal of alternative agrifood movement practice (AAMs; MacAuley and Niewolny, 2016; Pilgeram, 2011). AAMs embody and recursively construct values of biophysical sustainability, food quality, egalitarianism, and agrarianism (Constance, Renard, and Rivera-Ferre; 2014). However, …
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Embodied understandings: Dance, movement, and discourse in India’s international cultural relations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Learning, knowledge and trade union renewal : an analysis of the student experience of the MA in international labour and trade union studies Ruskin College, Oxford (2006-2016)
… the most urgent task of the global trade union movement. In doing so however, this thesis asks firstly, when developing strategies for trade union renewal what role does learning and knowledge production play? Secondly it asks, how is that learning and knowledge gained through social action made …
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Diasporic movement practices: African/Afro/Black embodied translineages and contemporary migrations in dance
… is to unveil less visible narratives of movement artists who are teachers, choreographers, and/or performers in the movement cultures of black/African diasporic dances. Furthermore, this dissertation contributes to critical discourse around identity from diasporic orientations, lived …