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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Performance Making"”.
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Dancing the in-between-ness: (re)articulating Bartenieff Fundamentals through improvised dance performance-making
… artistic practice in dance. The thesis presents performance work, notes from practice, movement scores, images, and academic text, to demonstrate a new methodological approach to Bartenieff Fundamentals and new methods of practice developed through somatic enquiry. Three performance works - …
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Breath-Body-Self : an exploration of the body as a site for generating images for performance making
… as a site for generating images for purposes of performance making. It is a methodological study that draws from various traditions, methods and somatic practices, such as yoga, Fitzmaurice Voicework®, the Sanskrit system of rasa, body mapping and free writing. The study specifically focuses on …
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The reinvention of tradition: Transformation of Chinese water sleeve dance and Tai Ji in contemporary performer training and performance making
… water sleeve dance and Tai Ji, in contemporary performance and performer training. The central concept behind this research was the commonly held perception in China that “tradition is a river” (P. Huang, 1990) in the context of the Chinese dance community. The overarching research methodology …
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Plug-in your practice: a three-part package for integrating creative digital technologies in Level 3 performing arts education
… the UK, there is a national shortfall in digital performance capabilities of students arriving at higher education (HE) performing arts courses. Formal qualification content in level 3 performing arts courses, have little-to-no reference to digital performance practices or the use of creative …
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Rapture : excursions in little tyrannies and bigger lies
This research project in performance studies is anchored around the writing, devising and performing of a series of three solo performance works entitled Rapture, Rapture II, and Rapture III. Rapture III was examined in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. …
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Navigating Landscapes of Longing and Belonging: Dialogues of Capoeira and Welsh Folk Dance in Intercultural Performance
… (Welsh Folk Dance) to create intercultural performance. Facilitated by an interrogation of the creative and critical processes that supported the collaborators on Perguntas & Atebion to bring their embodied knowledge of these cultural art forms into dialogue, this thesis offers a new …
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Phenomenological costume-making: an embodied approach to movement and materiality in the making of performance wearables
… of my own embodied costume design and making processes, an original approach to costume creation as movement practice is developed. This entails a constructing of costume as elemental, iterative, and abstract, rather than its representational, text and character-centred form. …
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The robotic fac̦ade : a design solution for energy conservation in the CityHome of the future
… been conceptualized as a way to improve energy performance, making it the energy hub of the home, and housing the majority of the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning equipment. The design makes use of activity recognition to aid with this energy performance improvement, and adapts the …
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Feeling the fleshed body: The aftermath of childhood rape [thesis]
… somatic inquiry, writing-as-inquiry, and performance-making-as inquiry. In addition to my autoethnographic explorations, I gathered information from other women raped in childhood, as well as information from women’s healthcare professionals. Drawing on the autoethnographic and participant …
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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &
… utilizes a collaborative and hybrid approach to performance making, privileging demographic diversity alongside formal diversity. Drawing on intermedial performance discourse, early television scholarship, and social practice theory, I argue that Schaal’s citation of 1950s sitcom aesthetics in …
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Rethinking Update-in-Place Key-Value Stores for Modern Storage
… merge trees (LSMs). Optimizing for the performance characteristics of HDDs, LSMs provide good write performance by emphasizing sequential access to storage. However, this approach negatively impacts read performance: LSMs must employ expensive compaction jobs and memory-consuming Bloom …
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The art of making choices: the Feldenkrais method as a choreographic resource
This document contextualises the practice-led Performance as Research (PaR) project 'The Art of Making Choices: The Feldenkrais Method as a Choreographic Resource'. It demonstrates how the included artistic submissions form an organic whole and substantially contribute to knowledge to the emerging …
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Simple linear classifiers via discrete optimization : learning certifiably optimal scoring systems for decision-making and risk assessment
… Such approaches impose steep trade-offs with performance, making it difficult for practitioners to build scoring systems that will be used and accepted. In this dissertation, we present two new machine learning methods to learn scoring systems from data: Supersparse Linear Integer Models …
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How the lived experiences of black women can be understood through devised theatre informed by psychophysical actor training: an adaptation of the Tadashi Suzuki actor training technique
… my body as a tool to derive themes for use in performance making and to underpin this in theory. I focus on aspects of Tadashi Suzuki (1986) actor training (referred to as Suzuki training), free writing and the body. I use black feminism, cognitive neuroscience and body theory to account for my …
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VoiceLink : a speech interface fore responsive media
… them with instant feedback and instructions, making the speech interface intuitive, flexible and easy to use for novice users. The major challenge for the HyperSoap module is the open vocabulary problem for object selection. In our design, an item list is displayed on the screen upon viewers' …
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US store detectives: the relationship between individual characteristics and job performance
… programs. Retail managers commonly use job performance reviews to gauge the individual efficacy of store detectives. In addition to job training, and job output supervision, research has indicated certain stable characteristics of individuals helps explain actual job performance, making …
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… intercultural body format? How to create a performance with an extracultural approach? Invasion, migration, and population dislocation over the last five centuries has caused significant movement amongst global populations. Cross-cultural performances have developed from these invasions, …
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intersect/surface/body: A Choreographic View of Drawing
… of the choreographic conditions presenting in performance works of choreographers Trisha Brown, La Ribot and Janine Antoni that extend across choreography and visual art contexts. The thesis aims to contribute to recent discourse in the field of choreography concerned with how a co-presence of …
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Deep Structured Multi-Task Learning for Computer Vision in Autonomous Driving
… only the inference speed but also the prediction performance by using the structural relationship between the tasks. Lastly, we demonstrate that structured modelling is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance, making it a very relevant approach for solving current and future computer vision …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… mean to have a migrant attitude for theatre and performance making? The thesis explores an approach to thinking about how a relationship between migration and African futurism can be put towards a dramaturgical practice mobilized in the direction of possibility, potential and a more hopeful …
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