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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"ballroom"”.
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Web-tools for streamlining ballroom dance competition management
… in a potential suite of computer aids for ballroom dance competitions. The suite of tools is known by the name CompinaBox; while the initial module which handles on-line registration for competitions is named SlidingDoors. The tools have been developed using the PHP programming language a …
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A Layered Ceiling: A Center for Ballroom Dance
… drawings and paintings presents a proposal for a ballroom dance center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The building is unnecessarily generous with the most essential elements and exaggerates non-essential elements in a way enhances their redundancy. Layered glulam ceilings cover the two main spaces …
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Contributions of Muscle Fatigue to a Neuromuscular Neck Injury in Female Standard Ballroom Dancers
… a loss of neck control injury in female standard ballroom dancers. The median frequency (MF) as measured by electromyography (EMG) of the left upper trapezius (UT), left splenius capitius (SPL), and right sternocleidomastoid (SCM) of injured dancers was compared to non-injured dancers. This …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… of first and second generation Soviet-Canadian ballroom dancers experiences with cultural identity within the dance milieu. My study is guided by questions such as: What are the differences in the relationship between national politics and dance in the Soviet Union and Canada? How have Soviet …
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Drag hinge : "reading" the scales between architecture and urbanism
Ballroom is a queer subculture that emerged out of drag performance(s) and is largely comprised of queer people of color (QPOCs) in New York City during the early 1970s. In ballroom, contestants "walk" categories that emulate archetypal traits of another gender, sex, or social class, or battle …
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Dancing and the aging brain: the effects of a 4-month ballroom dance intervention on the cognition of healthy older adults
… was to investigate the effects of a 4-month ballroom dance intervention on different cognitive abilities of healthy older adults, as well as on cardiorespiratory fitness, balance, and psychosocial variables. Sixty-five community-dwelling older adults of both genders participated in the study. …
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Closely Interacting Figures in a Virtual Environment
… thesis considers one such activity - dancing (ballroom dancing, in particular). Ballroom dancing as a simulated activity poses a number of challenges. The two that this thesis focuses on are style and interaction. Both are important not only in dancing, but also in a number of other areas, and …
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Exploring dance: An outline for the study of dance appreciation with suggested films
… surveys the history of the dance genres--ballet, ballroom, tap, and jazz--used in film musicals. Dance creators, their contributions to the art, as well as salient characteristics of each period are discussed. Each section concludes with an analysis of the function of dance in selected films; …
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La estética de las disidencias: representaciones trans y queer en el cortometraje The Gleamery Ball
… en un evento organizado por la comunidad Ballroom en Lima. El protagonista experimenta lo que es prepararse para competir en un evento realizado por la escena Ballroom, mientras recibe una respuesta negativa por parte de la misma. Al momento de la competencia, el protagonista no consigue …
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Limitlessness of Queer Performance: On-stage Performances and the Construction of Off-stage Identities
… By interviewing vogue performers who perform at "Ballroom events", I aimed to uncover the bi-directional relationship between performers' radical on-stage performances and their off-stage everyday identities. Given that non-queer, white individuals largely maintain the status quo within our …
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The Acquisitional Process of Selected Spatial and Temporal Aspects of a Waltz Sequence
… time in the learning of selected skills in ballroom dancing where the goal was to move according to an externally-imposed standard. The environmental constancies were 37 items of an instrument designed to measure waltz performance, and were identified as invariants or fixed aspects of the …
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The relationship between enjoyment and ongoing participation in A Grade dancesport
… in Dancesport, the competitive arm of ballroom dancing, both nationally and internationally. Determining the predictors of enjoyment for Dancesport could provide a base upon which to plan activity programs to increase lifelong participation and health. A qualitative approach was used to …
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Mattie Castlebury: East Texas Oil Boom Legend
… of the oil boom era. She established Mattie’s Ballroom, creating a bustling leisure and entertainment hub.Through her entrepreneurial strategies, Castlebury’s impact on the community is evident, shaping East Texas’ cultural fabric.</p> <p>The “Women of the Boom” exhibition at the Kilgore …
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Historicizing and Engaging Lindy Hop: The Development, Presence, and Absence of Black Cultural Values and Aesthetics
… point of origin in the Black space of the Savoy Ballroom to primarily white spaces today, questions arise about cultural preservation and erasure in this historically Black dance.Using historical methodologies, this research examines the human experience of historical Lindy Hop participants to …
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Platinum Group Element Mineralization in "Ballrooms" of the J-M Reef of the Stillwater Complex, Montana
… palladium and platinum in a 3.4:1 ratio. "Ballrooms" of the Stillwater Complex are anomalously wide areas within or stratigraphically below the J-M Reef that host platinum group element mineralization. Ballrooms have two typical morphologies (type 1 and type 2); the first is an abrupt …
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A topology on points on stacks
For a variety over certain topological rings R, like Z[subscript p] or C, there is a well-studied way to topologize the R-points on the variety. In this paper, we generalize this definition to algebraic stacks. For an algebraic stack X over many topological rings R, we define a topology on the …
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
… to Arnold and Bailey’s study on “houses” in ballroom culture (2009), and make use of the notion of queer chosen family (Hicks 2011). I show in this study how, through referencing other cultural products like Paris Is Burning, RuPaul’s Drag Race writes a version of the history of drag in the …
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A Center for Dance and Carnivals: Temporary vs. Permanent
How to create a permanent house for a temporary event? How to provide a comfortable environment in an extreme climate?
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The Seduction of Feminist Theory
… social success of Irene Castle, an influential ballroom dancer of the 1920s, in relation to modern fictional characters such as Lorelei Lee (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925), Myrtle Wilson (The Great Gatsby, 1925), and Florinda (Jacob's Room, 1922) to demonstrate that social mobility, as imagined …