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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Off-stage"”.
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Limitlessness of Queer Performance: On-stage Performances and the Construction of Off-stage Identities
… such performances influence performers' on and offstage identities. We understand the individual benefits gained from performing actions that maintain gender and racial norms, but we do not understand much regarding the effects of performances by individuals who deviate from such norms, …
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Portfolio of compositions: (..) for solo tuba and off stage brass quartet : Raise your sticks and cry; on the Genealogy of Oneirology; In the eye
A Portfolio of compositions investigating the diffusion of sound based on the movement of frequencies in the acousmatic medium, the relationships between traditional art music and acousmatic and popular music in the instrumental domain, and the interaction of sound and images in non-narrative works …
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Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama
… the theatrical depiction of corpses as both stage-objects for theoretical speculation and as performance phenomena of the early modern English stage. Investigating popular drama on the London stage from 1587 -- 1683, I demonstrate that the performance of the dead body by the living actor …
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Being and Function: the Structural use of Children in Shakespeare's Plays
… or theme. This is true even of the off-stage children. Person is intimately bound to function, not world view.</p> <p>It is this topic - children as beings with functional contributions to make to the plays - on which I wish to focus. I will consider the material under three broad …
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Engaging Resources for Cultural Events: a Performative Perspective
… the music has stopped or the actors have come off stage, when the audience has gone home and the premises have been cleared of rubbish, there might be few signs of an event having ever taken place. However, the value of an event is seen to extend beyond its immediate boundaries. This …
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CONSUMERS AND THEIR CELEBRITY BRANDS: HOW NARRATIVES IMPACT ATTACHMENT THROUGH COMMUNAL RELATIONSHIP NORMS
… differences in the narrative type (on-stage vs. off-stage) and celebrity brand type (achieved vs. attributed) are found to impact the relationship between narratives and attachment level, while brand type and attachment style type are not found to significantly impact the narrative - …
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The Application of Series Elastic Actuators in the Hydraulic Ankle-Foot Orthosis
… to store energy and release it during the push off stage of gait. The parameters required for the series elastic actuator were calculated and validated using simulation. The velocity and torque of a gait pattern that requires 250W of peak power were able to be tracked using a 95W power supply. …
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Flourishing in fragility: how to build antifragile ecosystems of learning, that nurture healthy vulnerability, in fragile environments in the Western Cape (South Africa) with at-risk learners
… performed acts of vulnerability (on and off stage) as a means of activating antifragility in the performer and the observer. The data collection took place in the Western Cape in South Africa, and specifically refers to learners and their networks and blended learning ecosystems in that …
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Analysis And Modeling Of The Eds Maglev System Based On The Halbach Permanent Magnet Array
… (DOF) dynamics, and the vehicle's mass center offset effects on those dynamics were investigated with multiple passive and active magnetic forces. The results indicated that the vehicle's mass center offset has a strong effect on the dynamics of the Maglev system due to the uniqueness of the …
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The Last Empress (1995): the paradoxical development of the Korean indigenous musical and its intercultural implications
… theatre artists and practitioners both on and off stage. Finally, the examination of The Last Empress provides a unique opportunity to discover the new function of theatre and performance in the era of globalization beyond the binary of East versus West. This study observes the musical’s impact …
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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre
… own vision of <em>ero guro </em>bodies on and off stage, these artists redefine eroticism and grotesqueness—which the <em>ero guro </em>system of their time stigmatized and marginalized—and project the transgressive values upon those bodies in their work. In this sense, this dissertation argues …
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The nature and enactment of African dance that produces neurogenic tremors
… is mainly enacted through improvisation (on and off-stage), through which socio-historical-cultural intergenerational resources (isintu) embedded within, are tapped into. ADNT offers opportunities for connectedness with the self, other people, as well as with transcendent beings. Conclusion: This …
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Hang on to yourself: Bowie, Burke, and the rhetoric of stage persona
… implications of David Bowie’s use of the stage persona Ziggy Stardust in order to better understand how stage personae affect performers and their audiences. Employing Burke’s dramatistic pentad as a theoretical framework, I explore the scene, act, agent, agency, and purpose of the …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… is peopled with many whites, most of whom remain off-stage, but nonetheless play a tremendous role in the lives of his black characters. Wilson's vision of whiteness is homogeneous; he stresses in play after play how whiteness is associated with economic power and exploitation, social privilege, …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
… legitimacy of the beliefs that prevail on- and off-stage and, hence, cannot be simply set aside at the end of the performance. Chapter 3 considers 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in order to: 1) show that in these two comedies powerful male figures exploit dreams to …
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Dry land strength and power training to enhance swimming in-water turn performance
… small improvements in aspects of the push off stage of the swim turn for elite swimmers. Swimming and strength and conditioning (S&C) coaches should include programming options for both strength and ballistic dry-land training to enhance swim turn performance of their athletes
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The performance-within, creative authenticity, and practical knowledge: linking theatre, film, and philosophy in the work of Ingmar Bergman
This dissertation offers an analysis of the convention of the “performance-within” in the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007). This analysis is practical, aesthetic, and historical. It considers how specific performances-within were devised and presented, the various functions of …