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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"choreographer"”.
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Boris Volkoff: Dancer, teacher, choreographer
Alexander Gorsky and the experimental dance movement in Moscow during the 1920s were the principal formative influences on the dance career of Boris Volkoff. During his career in Canada Volkoff was also influenced by the social, economic, and political environment of Canada. His contributions to …
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Black Brazilian female dancer-choreographer-educators : creating alternative axes of action in the African diaspora
… examines the potential of black women dancer-choreographer-educators to re-imagine their artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical identities in the African diaspora. By introducing the concept of alternative axes of action as spatial longitudinal oblique lines established slightly outside of a …
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I/O-Automata based formal approach to Web Services Choreography
… study the problem of synthesis of a <i>mediator/choreographer</i> in Web service composition</p> <p>for a given set of services and a goal. Services and goal are represented using i/o automata.</p> <p>The central theme of our technique relies on generating i/o automata representation of all …
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The Inconstancy of Bodies: Yvonne Meier's Works, 1985 ' 2012
… is disability? This research on the dancer and choreographer Yvonne Meier theorizes that her more than 30-year career has challenged the oft perceived polarities between function and dysfunction, utility and futility through the physical actions of dance performances. As she developed as a …
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From Biological Impulse to Analyzed Product: An Exploration of the Choreographic Process
… forms dependent on the interests of the choreographer. However, all choreographic processes begin with an idea and develop using different analytical theories. This research explores the creative process from instinctive responses to movement, mediated via mirror neuron activation during …
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An exploration of the work of David Bintley, a very ‘English’ choreographer, with particular reference to his use of English Morris dance in Still Life at the Penguin Café and the process of translating ‘genuine’ English Morris dance to a theatrical environment.
The study explores the work of the English choreographer and Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley. Particular reference is made to Bintley’s ballet Still Life at the Penguin Café (1988) and the extent to which he has drawn from English Cotswold Morris dance in the Humboldt’s …
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The solo string works of J. S. Bach: the relationship between dance and musical elements
… period, the relationship between composer and choreographer was sometimes inseparable. Maestro Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) and his well-known choreographer Pierre Beauchamp (1631-1705) collaborated on several operas for Louis XIV. The dance part, also called dance notation, was published by …
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Frank Staff and his role in South African ballet and musical theatre from 1955 to 1959, including a pre-1955 biography
Frank Staff was the first South African choreographer to explore the concept of modem ballet in South Africa. Through the creation of his ballet companies, the South African Ballet and later the Frank Staff Ballet, he pursued unusual subject-matter not seen previously on a South African ballet …
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Creating the world of Amélie : an exploration of process and product.
… account of my role as the director and choreographer of the musical Amélie at Baylor University Theatre in the fall of 2022. It analyzes the script, characters, and themes of the production, examining them through the lens of Linda Hutcheon's theory of adaptation, and documents the …
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Choreographing for Children's Television: The Legwarmers in Variations on a Dream
… The Legwarmers in Variations on a Dream, choreographer Lisa Brkich explores the choreographic process for a demographic of children between the ages of four and seven years through embodied practice with the dancers, and through the collaboration process with her production team, media …
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Choreographing a Greenway: Exploring Experiential Diversity Through Choreographic Dance Principles
… to design. By approaching park design as a choreographer of dance, a designer can focus on the human experiences –how materiality and the environment influence movement, senses, and emotions. This thesis demonstrates how dance can be successfully translated into the landscape, and how …
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Media Dance: An Art Form - The Intersection of Art, Technologies, and Bodies in Motion
… of movement, dance, and technology, and the choreographer, who must grasp the possibilities of media as an art, while understanding the potential to create new kinds of works through the capture of movement and the power of editing. Building on and supported by a substantial review of the …
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Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide to Storytelling through Dance and Movement
… of dance was the interest of the public. Choreographers George Balanchine and Agnes De Mille helped to change dance in music theatre, by using dance numbers to further the plot of the story. They believed a musical number should enhance the tone, energy, and rhythm of the entire piece. …
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Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom
… Lady Sings the Blues (Holiday, 1956). The choreographer danced the role of Billie Holiday, wrote the script, was the recorded voice portraying Billie, selected the performers and directed all dramatic sequences; The written account of this project includes an investigation of Billie …
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A contemporary dance company and performance areas
… investigates dance and the role of the choreographer, as spatial informant for architecture. The author used selected dance performances as design generators. This process was largely based on the work of the architectural firm, UN Studio. It expands on the freedom of the architectural …
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An exploration of the construction of a relationship between video (videographer) and live performance (theatre-maker/performer) and how the two art forms may inform each other.
… careful negotiation with the theatre-maker/choreographer, its use with live action will have an enhancing effect, perhaps leading to a more visceral theatre. The theory best serving to assist my attempts in terms of placing them into the academic continuum of other such endeavours and …
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Dancing cheek to cheek : haptic communication between partner dancers and swing as a finite state machine
… between a small number of poses. Two automated choreographers are presented. One uses an optimization and randomization scheme to compose dances by a sequence of shortest path problems, with edge lengths measuring the dissimilarity of dance moves to each bar of music. The other solves a …
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Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation
… The Performance of Relation</em>, explores how choreographers and theater artists in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City used time and space to involve their audiences experientially in the project of grieving and rebuilding in the midst of the temporal chaos of mass death …
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