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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"contemporary performance"”.
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Acts of Writing: Writings on Contemporary Performance
… a continuing meditation on, and exploration of contemporary performance. The term 'contemporary performance' is used to refer to practices and discourses in the performance arts that have occurred over the last decade. There is a particular emphasis on those unstable, hybrid and …
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Dancing with forks: A study of objects in contemporary performance
… has been neglected both in the study of performance and more widely in Western culture, revealing a preference for abstraction over embodiment, with serious, environmental and ethical implications. In this study I describe how the meanings attached to material objects are created, …
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Re-envisioning female operatic roles in contemporary performance from a feminist perspective
… to the changing and expanding identities of contemporary audiences, it is all the more necessary to establish and propose research-informed ways of working which facilitate the elevation of the female role in works from the canon. The aim of this is to create a greater sense of equality in an …
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THE INTIMATE CRITIC: THE RELATIONSHIPS, LABOURS AND INHERITANCES OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE CRITICS IN ARCHIPELAGIC SOUTHEAST ASIA
… of interpersonal relationships that undergird performance criticism in the Southeast Asian archipelago (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines), and how the syncretic practices of the archipelagic critic can offer us new insight into and possibilities for criticism. I identify how …
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The reinvention of tradition: Transformation of Chinese water sleeve dance and Tai Ji in contemporary performer training and performance making
… practices, water sleeve dance and Tai Ji, in contemporary performance and performer training. The central concept behind this research was the commonly held perception in China that “tradition is a river” (P. Huang, 1990) in the context of the Chinese dance community. The overarching research …
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The Soli-Tutti Concept in The Choral Works of Johann Sebastian Bach
… by analogy, one should apply this procedure in contemporary performance.
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The Shape of a Thought: A Made Up Game
… thesis asks, "In what unique ways can contemporary performance address our preoccupations with narrative?" It reframes what are frequently discussed in screenwriting handbooks as "the rules of storytelling" as "narrative conventions," then asks what central cognitive preoccupations lie …
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Aquabatics as New Works of Live Art
… thesis (comprising of an exegesis, exhibition, performances and their documentation) traces a myriad of cognitive and sub cognitive processes that converge towards a complex practice referred to as 'Aquabatics'. In broad terms, Aquabatics describes the research nexus of occupational diving and …
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An investigation into the relationship between the individual and the collective in emerging performance ensembles
… placing the practice in dialogue with specific contemporary performance collectives, followed by an account of the laboratory in varying open environments. The research is presented both as a written thesis and as an online platform, which the reader is invited to explore alongside each other. …
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Dramatization and philosophy of history in Orange Book explication of a site-responsive work and its research
… Book as a piece of site-responsive public space performance, showing how similar patterns of thought and feeling emerging in both research and artwork led to elaborating the notion of an art methodology for the work. The explication further considers a process of research into drama and history …
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(Re)constructing Johann Sebastian Bach: reception history and performance practice in New York City during the Great War
… 1) reception history and reputation, and 2) contemporary performance practices. Between 1914 and 1927, the reputation of Bach migrated away from one having nationalistic and Romantic associations to one embodying both a "universal" objectivity and a distinctly American subjectivity. …
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A time to speak : an integrative performance historiography of Archibald Macleish's panic and the fall of the city
"A Time to Speak": an integrative performance historiography of Archibald MacLeish's Panic and The Fall of the City examines two neglected plays, Panic (1935) and The Fall of the City (1937), by the American poet-playwright Archibald McLeish (1892-1982). Best known in studies of verse drama for his …
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A time to speak : an integrative performance historiography of Archibald Macleish's panic and the fall of the city
"A Time to Speak": an integrative performance historiography of Archibald MacLeish's Panic and The Fall of the City examines two neglected plays, Panic (1935) and The Fall of the City (1937), by the American poet-playwright Archibald McLeish (1892-1982). Best known in studies of verse drama for his …
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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &
… utilizes a collaborative and hybrid approach to performance making, privileging demographic diversity alongside formal diversity. Drawing on intermedial performance discourse, early television scholarship, and social practice theory, I argue that Schaal’s citation of 1950s sitcom aesthetics in …
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Development of a sustainable water management strategy in the Alwahat area of Libya
… The aim of this research is to explore the contemporary performance of the groundwater sector in Libya and to develop a strategy for providing a sustainable groundwater resource to achieve a social, economic and environmentally-sustainable water future. Perceptions about groundwater …
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Playing with performance/performing play: creating hybrid experiences at the fringes of video games and performance
… is an exploration of the intersections between performance and video games. Using a practice as research methodology, it aims to address the question of how game design and contemporary performance practice can both inform and contribute to the development of new and hybrid experiences and …
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Making theatre elastic: a practice-led PhD on performance research with Elastic Theatre, focusing on the body of work produced between 2005 and 2011
The present discussion is based on my performance research with Elastic Theatre (originally named Vocal Motions and also known as Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre), a company that I founded and have directed since 2001. A specific focus is placed on the body of work produced between 2005 and 2011, …
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A critical investigation and re-assessment of the composition history of J.S. Bach's 5th suite for unaccompanied violoncello, BWV 1011
… of the text, compounded by uncertainty about performance practice in Bach S circle. Nothing but a fundamental and comprehensive return to the roots of the problem, i.e. to the sources themselves, could help to achieve an understanding of the text which would be sufficient to perform and teach …
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Performing (for) survival: performance tactics of incarcerated women
… women in prison are positioned in a carceral performance that is cyclical and inevitably ‘tragic’. The argument considers the tactics women use in order to firstly, survive their incarceration, and sometimes, resist, the institution. The theoretical frame is drawn from feminist criminology and …
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The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… of the voice in poststructural theory and contemporary performance criticism. The problem has antecedents in twentieth-century language philosophy. Saussure defines language as a compendium of arbitrary words recognized according to the degrees of phonetic difference between them. Since for …
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