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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"dancer"”.
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The dancer in nature
… around the art of dance. It includes study of a dancer's relationship to Newtonian physics, dance medicine, the role of the spine in balance, and the emerging study of the neuroscience of dance. The thesis integrates personal narrative and descriptions of dance performances with scientific …
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Boris Volkoff: Dancer, teacher, choreographer
… the National Ballet of Canada. Volkoff was a dancer of the Bolshoi School who possessed an outstanding technique and an excellent expressive quality. As a teacher he drew out of his students their unique individual modes of expression and movement. Through his diverse repertoire which …
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The Little Dancer and Other Stories
Set during the 1990s on the East Coast of the United States, this collection of short stories explores identity and diaspora where grief manifests viscerally. Be it the loss of a sister, the loss of a childhood home, the loss of health, or the loss of a grandmother's memory, the alienating event …
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Knowing in the body: A dancer's emergent epistemology
… to explore how knowing in the body develops when dancers translate and integrate detail and sensory information about the structure and function of their bodies, both through movement exploration, and in their dancing. In this research I asked how the body both can be a site of knowledge and how …
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The Dancer Walking The Ruins: Laura Riding and Dialectical Thought
This thesis explores the origin and expression of dialectical thought in the life and writings of the American modernist Laura Riding. Within a biographical framework, I trace the steps by which it became the defining characteristic of her poetic, literary and critical works. A few have noted …
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Breaking my silence as a 'trained' dancer in post-apartheid South Africa
This research is a personal reflection and a self-study of two performances that have taken place over the course of two years. My Medium Project titled, When Memories Break, set out to navigate ways of decolonising oppressive dominance and investigating the ramifications of indoctrination in …
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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 …
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Re-framing the dancer: the critical evaluation of an aesthetic and ideology for integrated dance
… dance that pertain to re-framing the dancer. Integrated/mixed-ability dance is committed to inclusive practice thereby changing the old order of aesthetics in favour of a new approach. It is this innovative work that this study has documented. The body (in dance) is understood as a …
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Metacognitive Writing Strategies for Emerging Dancer-Scholars: Uncovering Supportive Links Between Academic Writing and Choreographic Processes
… pose challenging experiences for such emerging dancer-scholars. While long standing metacognitive reading strategies are commonly available to assist those new to graduate studies with interpreting their academic readings, no comparable metacognitive writing strategies appear in the literature …
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Material words for voicing dancers: a practice-led inquiry into the role of voice for the improvising dancer
… outcomes, to draw out the figure of a voicing dancer. The analysis considers: 1) how a dancer might ‘access’ feeling for voicing, taking a somatically-oriented approach that also utilises the author's experience as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method; 2) how voicing can be ‘arranged’ in a …
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Where the dancer meets her divine: dance as religious experience in the lives of Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan
… be a religious experience for an individual dancer? I investigate this question through specifically examining the lives of dancers Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan, both creators of influential new styles of dance in the late nineteenth century. I begin with a study of the religio-cultural …
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The Legacy of Vanalombo: Exploring links between Vanalombo and Jako Malabar from the perspective of a Makonde musician and dancer
… the performance traditions of Jako musician-dancers from Réunion Island and Vanalombo performers from the Mueda Plateau in Mozambique from a personal perspective as a Makonde musician and dancer versed in these styles. In the process, I explore possible connections between these two …
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The effects of a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet versus a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet on dancer's performance
… high-fat (LCHF) diet on performance in dancers. Methodology. In a cross-over design, dancers consumed a HCLF and a LCHF diet for approximately one month. A Perceived Fatigue Assessment, dual energy x-ray absorptiometry, and exercise testing including a 30 second Wingate, lateral raises, …
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Undoing Angashuddhi: Interrogating Indian Classical Dance and the Nation
… dance is an ancient Indian art. When classical dancers perform, the audience ordinarily views the performance as an authentic representation of the art of the temple dancer or courtesan from centuries ago. An ancient Hindu dramatic treatise called the Natyashastra is meant to offer proof of this …
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A Study of Dynamic + Static Space
… and choreography. The fluidity and balance of a dancer as an artistic endeavor can be an inspiration, to develop analogous architectural forms as a kind of transcribed motions of the dance. A dancer''s movements and pauses can be interpreted as dynamic and static architectural moments. Dynamic …
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Foto documental sobre las Danzas Urbanas Locking y Wacking en Lima
… diffuses through various photographs such as the dancers develop in their different contexts within Lima, and as despite economic difficulties, they manage to take advantage of their abilities. Through a follow-up, the dancer is made visible as the creator of his own semiosphere on the street …
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