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Sighting Circus: Perceptions of circus phenomena investigated through diverse bodies
This thesis is an investigation into modern circus from its beginnings in 1768 through to present day contemporary circus arts. Eight diverse bodies in modern and contemporary circus are explored. These eight bodies act as different lenses to focus enquiry into gaps or ruptures in the grand …
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Towners Call Us a Circus
… and societal pressures. <em>Towners call us a circus</em> examines what happens to identity when exposed to ontological plurality, decay, and paradox. Set during the eve of World War I, the narrative follows a circus troupe finds itself in an ontological purgatory of being simultaneously alive …
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Brut- und Jagdhabitatwahl zweier sympatrischer Weihenarten (Circus cyaneus und Circus aeruginosus) im Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer
… wurde die Brut- und Jagdhabitatwahl der Korn- (Circus cyaneus) und Rohrweihen (Circus aeruginosus) auf den Ostfriesischen Inseln Borkum und Norderney im Gebiet des Nationalparks Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer untersucht. Dabei sollte der Frage nachgegangen werden, ob interspezifische Konkurrenz um …
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Ludgate Circus: St. Paul's AS prospect
Why does a London smog heavy with the dark smell of diesel on a drizzly gray afternoon bring a keen sense of deja vu, o spasm of Anglophilia, to one who grew up in the Pacific Northwest of the United States? Perhaps it is the similar climate. Perhaps The City is perceived as ”achieved” rather than …
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Curriculum Circus: Juggling Curriculum, Science, and The Arts
… complex world.</p> <p><em>Curriculum Circus</em> uses the many metaphors of the circus to defend a polymerization of arts and science, a return to their common history. I start with the reconceptualization of William Pinar arguing for a “marriage of two cultures: the scientific and the …
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The urban exploratory circus : infrastructure for corporeality, connectedness, and virtuosity
A traditional form of cultural critique, the circus rests its appeal in presenting extremes of the familiar and by removing perceptual barriers between people. Rather than directly confronting problems, the circus generates ideas of living and creating, seeking the unfamiliar to frame a new …
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SCISSION: The Architectural Collage and Gordon Matta-Clark's Circus Caribbean Orange
… design. Second, Gordon Matta-Clark's 1971-78 Circus or The Caribbean Orange project 1978 constitute a paradigmatic laboratory in which cutting becomes design, drawing and phenomenological event at once. Third, the operative logic of the cut is best unpacked through its tools: knife (drawing), …
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Piazza Navona, Harvard Square, Piccadilly Circus : a study about morphology and use
… Square (Cambridge, U.S.A.) and Piccadilly Circus (London. England). Based on a historical review, the main aspects influencing the character of the squares are grouped into three categories: form, use and relation to the city. These categories, nevertheless. are not relevant when considered …
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The Development of the Wenatchee Youth Circus as an Extra-Curricular Educational Experience
… to trace the development of the Wenatchee Youth Circus and its contribution to the educational growth and development of its participants.
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Fred Jewell, 1875-1936 : his life as composer of circus and band music, bandmaster, and publisher
… was one of the leading composers of band and circus music of the early twentieth century. Born in Worthington, Indiana in 1875, he started his musical career at age sixteen as a baritone player in a circus band. He rose to the position of bandmaster for the Barnum and Bailey, Gentry Brothers, …
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Potential collision risk of harriers Circus spp. with wind turbines during breeding season derived from GPS tracking
… risk of breeding male Montagu’s Harriers Circus pygargus (MoH; n = 24 individuals), Hen Harriers C. cyaneus (HH; n = 3) and Western Marsh-harriers C. aeruginosus (MaH; n = 3) in the Dutch-German border area. First, the relevant flight behaviour characteristics were quantified separately. …
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Le Nouveau Cirque
<p>Exploring traditional circus and contemporary circus has lead me to my current body of print work titled <em>Le Nouveau Cirque</em> simply meaning <em>The New Circus</em>. In my studio work I use printmaking to create my art. My focus on printmaking began with this body of artwork because of my …
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“It’s like a big freaking fake circus”: An exploration of intersectionality and women’s experiences in higher education fundraising
<p>Women in higher education fundraising navigate the broad forces of sexism and racism in society and their profession, a profession in which they are being paid less than their male counterparts and are under-represented in leadership roles, despite being the majority of fundraising …
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The dark circus : an examination of the work of Mervyn Peake, with reference to selected prose and verse
I have attempted in this dissertation to draw together a number of strands that make up the intricate and often bizarre tapestry of Mervyn Peake's work. In the Introduction, I raise an issue that seems to be most central to his vision: the relationship of the artist to worlds both real and …
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Environmental factors influencing the breeding and health of a predator endemic to southern Africa: the endangered Black Harrier Circus Maurus
… of ecological change. The Black Harrier Circus maurus is an avian predator endemic to southern Africa, which breeds essentially along the South African coast within the Fynbos biome, and inland within the Karoo biome. Its population size has been estimated at less than 1,000 breeding …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
This thesis examines the function of the circus and the sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are …
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In this dream I don't have to close my eyes : as told by Siamese twins Iris and Lily Hutton
… and Lily Hutton, conjoined twins who work in a circus sideshow. The poem has as its central concerns the effects of representation on subjectivity and the notion of the split subject. Iris and Lily perform their conjoined identities in a circus sideshow, where they are objectified as "freaks" …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… the English music-hall, American vaudeville, circus clowning and, finally, early screen comedy in order to present us with a vision of the human condition that is as universal as it is devastatingly comical or, for that matter, comically devastating. Special attention is paid to Beckett's …
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