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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Performing art"”.
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Kabuki as a Women's Performing Art
Kabuki is a performing art that originated in Japan and this art is probably best known for being performed exclusively by males. Despite the fact that this perception of the kabuki is prevalent in not only mainstream sources but also academia, it is simply not an accurate reflection of the history …
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Poetry as a performing art in the English-speaking Caribbean.
… between the emergence of poetry as a performing art in the English speaking Caribbean and phases of nationalist agitation from the uprisings against unemployment, low pay and colonial neglect during 1937-8 to the present. Though the poetry has many variations in scope, ranging from …
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An evaluation of the instructional practices in voice teaching at Australian performing art institutions
… of experienced voice practitioners in Australian performing arts schools, appropriate texts, consideration of contexts and my own professional experience. Vocal instruction starts with the basic training of ‘the instrument’ or the vocal capabilities of the body. Following this or concurrent with …
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Designing Robot Non-Verbal Behaviour: Using Performing Art Techniques as Frameworks for Human–Robot Interaction
… theories and techniques from drama and performing arts. Drawing on the practice of experienced theater practitioners, we conducted in-depth observations of human movement patterns in group interactions, extracted and developed 12 robot behaviour patterns with contextual and communicative …
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Momentum - Transformation of Movement into Architecture
… these guidelines are translated into a school of performing art.
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The modern uses of tradition in contemporary Korean theatre: A critical analysis from an intercultural perspective
… while virtually discarding their indigenous performing art traditions. However, since the 1960s, a small group of theatre practitioners has begun a movement to revive the native performing tradition by incorporating traditional elements into Western-style theatre productions. Such has …
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The music of architecture
Music, as a performing art, transports us to distant moments and spaces than those we are in the present time. A hundred musicians playing Bruckner's Scherzo on Symphony No. 7 could make us feel emotionally moved; it could make us feel joy, anger, anguish, delight, peace, fear, freedom. Music has …
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Architecture for performance - exploring the relationship between architecture, dance and the city
… and theatre to test the ideas, which has Jazzart Dance Theatre as its imagined main stakeholder. The main topics are challenging the relationship between private and public space, architecture as performing art as well as an interest in accessibility (right to the city) through the movement of …
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… urban design for walkable places as well as art forms that focus on walking. Whence this trend? This dissertation studies the socio-economic and cultural context that brought forth the aestheticized forms of walking such as walking in designed walkable places and walking as art. The …
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The Development and function of hana keaka (Hawaiian-medium theatre): A tool for the empowering Kanaka Maoli consciousness
… and cultural beliefs through performance. The art of performance is intrinsic to Kanaka Maoli existence, as oratory was the means in which our stories were recorded and shared, prior to the introduction of a writing system. Performance was embedded within the traditional practices of Kānaka …
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Classicism on the threshold of modernity: expanding the physical parameters of Odissi Dance for contemporary audiences
… with the view to identifying its strengths as a performing art and building on them. The objectives were to share this dance tradition both on stage and in the studio, not just as a stylised Indian movement form of limited interest, but as an integrating dance experience of relevance to today's …
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Folded Intersection: a performing arts center
This project proposes a performing arts center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a 170-year old industrial city. As part of the city revitalization, the design seeks to build up a "stage", and create a piece of edge at the city's northern boundary. Two folded bands, one made of skeletal steel and surfaced …
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El hecho coreográfico como instrumento de mediación en la educación al patrimonio.
In this compendium of eleven articles published in peer-reviewed journals, the aim is to study and analyse the performative language and choreographic proposals in the context of museum spaces to identify new concrete proposals for audience engagement for a more active and participatory visit. As …
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From the Inside Out: Excavating the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles
<p>This work examines the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles (PASLA), one of several cultural arts responses to the 1965 Watts Rebellion. Fundamentally, this work seeks to restore to memory and discourse the work of the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles, its founder Motojicho Vantile …
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Movement-based performing arts as an approach to embodied learning in secondary teacher education [Arti performative basate sul movimento come approccio all'apprendimento corporeo nella formazione docente per la scuola secondaria]
… i sistemi educativi attuali trascurano in gran parte questa connessione, aderendo a un modello cartesiano che privilegia la mente rispetto al corpo. Queste prospettive cartesiane limitano le possibilità di sviluppo delle identità professionali deɜ docentɜ, in quanto inculcano comportamenti e …
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BETWEEN ART AND ORGANISATION: RETHINKING CULTURAL VALUE THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONAL, ORGANISATIONAL, AND INDIVIDUAL DIMENSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS.
… considerando il teatro non solo come forma d’arte, ma anche come una struttura professionale complessa, sempre più assimilabile a quelle organizzazioni operanti al di fuori del settore culturale. Allo stesso tempo, la natura artistica del teatro implica che il suo “valore” non possa essere …