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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"dance history"”.
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Modern Dance: A Historical Consideration
… made an original contribution to the field of dance history. The nine selected published works—Volume 2—written over the course of three decades, consider modern dance between 1900 and 1945 and how its historical study illuminates this significant period. All these writings made contributions …
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Exploring the Life and Work of Gladys Forrester: A Canadian Dance Educator, 1936 - 1998
The current body of literature regarding dance history in Canada is informative and expanding, focusing predominantly on professional schools, dancers, choreographers and companies. There is much yet to be said, however, regarding individual dance educators, their instructional practices and …
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Dance, Culture and Nationalism: the Socio-cultural Significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwanese Society
The socio-cultural significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (est. 1973) in Taiwan is manifested in the interconnection of political nationalism and the representation of a diasporic postcolonialist cultural nationalism in its dance creations. The hybrid nature of Taiwanese society and its struggle …
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See and be seen: A quality of presence. An investigation of authentic movement in creative process and performance
This dissertation investigates ways in which dancers utilise the principles of Authentic Movement within creative process and performance contexts. First, it examines theories of the body subject from a phenomenological perspective, foregrounding the body as the lived body of experience. Then, it …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… re-visions images of women from film and dance history, particularly focusing on the early twentieth century work of Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller. In this,my practice explores an intermedialspace between cinema, dance, stillness and movement to propose the female body as one of crossing, …
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The serious art of funny business: a critical study of comedy in dance
… and praxis of comedy in the embodied realm of dance; it is a subject worthy of serious deliberation. Tills dissertation discusses the evolution of comedy and comedic theories as they relate to modem dance and narrative ballet Comedic works were examined providing insight into the theory, …
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Unresolved Differences: Choreographing Community in Cross-Generational Dance Practice
… informed the dominant rhetoric in the Community Dance sector since the 1970s, and formed the conditions of possibility for Cross-generational Dance, a reciprocal relationship between discourse and practice that has arguably been overlooked in the historiography of Community Dance. Framed by …
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Proyecto de la exposición "Contexto del origen del ballet nacional de Letonia: imperialismo ruso, vanguardismo europeo e identidad nacional letona (1914-1934)"
Este proyecto expositivo se plantea para celebrar el primer centenario de la fundación del Ballet Nacional de Letonia. Narra sus orígenes en el complejo contexto histórico-cultural de Letonia a comienzos del siglo XX, cuando Riga se afianzó como una encrucijada de culturas palpable a través de su …
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Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures
This research project aims to articulate the dance educator’s potential in creating decolonial, ecologically-embedded futures. Applying a research-creation methodology, I look to a summer of teaching I experienced to explore Indigenous posthumanist systems of relation, theories of the rhizome and …