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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"choreographies"”.
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Design and analysis of process choreographies
… interaction behavior is described in process choreographies. Choreographies enumerate the roles involved, the allowed interactions, the message contents and the behavioral dependencies between interactions. Choreographies serve as interaction contract and are the starting point for adapting …
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URBAN CHOREOGRAPHIES BANGKOK'S CATALYSTS TRANSFORM NEIGHBOURHOODS
In Bangkok, under-regulated land use has intensified the pattern of mixed economic functions and led to uncontrolled densification and expansion of the city along its major roads and in high-rise developments. Despite rapid urban transformation and accelerated economic transitions, some inner-city …
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Dancing in the Dark: described dances and unseen choreographies
… experiencing dance performance can instigate new choreographies that embody the interplay between seen and unseen, described and not described, inside and outside, subject and object. By ‘unseen’ I mean invisible to the eye but potentially available to other senses or imaginative capacities. …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
Liberia’s protracted civil war was sustained for a period of 14-years (1989-2003), killing approximately 250 000 Liberians and displacing half of the population. Liberia’s war, like other contemporary African conflicts, has been persistently represented as an example of wanton violence, political …
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Computer-assisted proofs in geometry and physics
… The second application is to gravitational choreographies, i.e., periodic trajectories of point particles under Newtonian gravity such that all of the particles follow the same curve. Many numerical examples of choreographies, but few existence proofs, were previously known. We present a …
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Mass choreography in modern Olympic ceremonies. The emergence of a choreographic line between the period 1984 and 2016
… and Bryn Walters, who produced multiple mass choreographies for the Olympic Games in Europe and America in the period from the late 1990s to 2016. In order to understand their characteristics and possible mutual influence regarding their method and working style, it was decided to undertake a …
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Staging race: Blackness, performance, and citizenship in Afro-Latin American writers (1940-2000)
… Cruz’s radio broadcasting, Victoria Santa Cruz’s choreographies, Delia Zapata Olivella’s dance manuals, and Manuel Zapata Olivella’s street theater. In doing so, my research underlines how their respective performances created a vocabulary to enunciate everyday experiences of racism and …
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“Let’s Do The Time Warp, Again!” <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</em> as Hysterical Theatre
… seeking to illuminate the ways in which specific choreographies and gesturing – depicted cinematically and echoed by the shadow cast and spectators in The Rocky Horror Picture Show – iterate a shared experience of marginalization between bodies deemed “hysterical” and queer bodies.</p>
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How Does Expertise Support Exceptional Learning?
… use. Expert and novice dancers learned six choreographies that varied in length (50 vs. 100 steps) and in familiarity/structure (structured ballet, unstructured ballet, and hip-hop) across five study-recall cycles. Experts recalled significantly more steps than novices at both the initial …
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In|And|Of|Through
… classical repertoire, fashioned contemporary choreographies from historical resources, and incorporated a community of diverse dancers, live onstage painting, and an abstract gallery setting to explore different effects art has on the human spirit.
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Tiny Trainable Instruments
… for artistic purposes? What are the new choreographies and techniques that machine learning running on microcontrollers offer for artists and activists? Tiny Trainable Instruments is a collection of multimedia devices, running machine learning algorithms on microcontrollers, for artistic …
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Emotion by motion: expression simulation in virtual ballet
Learning and teaching choreographies can be an arduous task. In ballet, most dancers learn by emulation i.e. "watch, copy and learn". The teaching process not only instructs the order of steps but also requires explaining the quality required for the performance. Notational systems are used in …
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Black Brazilian female dancer-choreographer-educators : creating alternative axes of action in the African diaspora
… at Rosangela Silvestre's and Edileusa Santos's choreographies, methodologies, and participation in the history of dance - with especial emphasis on their travel and exchange between Brazil and the U.S. - I identify alternative movement languages, ways of performing Brazil, and ways of continuing …
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MAKING UP URBAN SPACE. A COMPARATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL DISTANCING ON PUBLIC TRANSPORT
… angles, examines social distancing in the choreographies of mobility practices on Milan’s public transit, the configurations of unequal urban experiences in Milan and Amsterdam, and the narratives and collective imaginaries of public transport in Milan and New York. Each case highlights how …
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Marketplace Multiculturalism
… true mythos lies not in static symbols but in choreographies of transaction and contact. Articulating in built form the dynamic processes that define a territory of sprawl, this proposal suggests that Texas’s most authentic monuments are the stops we make along the way.
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Exœrcising a Haunted City
… study of local Taoist-Buddhist practices, the choreographies of rituals as a reparative tool to resist the disap- pearance of local culture. It is linked to findings from everyday domestic offerings to ancestors, annual festive performances of traumatic cleansing, and the booming clientele …
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Choreographing borderlands : Chicanas/os, dance, and the performance of identities
… are per/formed through body and movement. The choreographies I analyze are Danza Floricanto/USA’s Alma Llanera: Spirit of the Plains (2009, 2014), Guadalupe Dance Company’s Historias y Recuerdos (2010), Latina Dance Project’s Coyolxauhqui ReMembers (2009), and the Aztlan Dance Company’s …
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Caretaking Trans-states
… how painting can be used to generate trans choreographies on and off the paintings surface. I consider the potential of embodied transing to work against what Carl Mika (2017) calls the colonial imperative of clarity. I reintroduce transing as unknowing, unknowable and undoing - following a …
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In Search of the DomoNovus: Speculative Designs for the Computationally-Enhanced Domestic Environment
… scales (micro, meso and macro). To identify the “choreographies” that are formed between these properties and scales, case studies have been developed to suggest, provoke, and speculate concepts, ideas, and alternative realities of the home. Part of the speculation proposes the concept of …
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Emotional avatars: choreographing emotional facial expression animation
… became known as emotional expression choreographies. The final work presented in this thesis covers the performative, practice-led research into emotional expression choreography, the results of empirical experimentation (where choreographed animations were assessed by observers), and …
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