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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"divas"”.
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Radiant divas: In pursuit of the queer sublime
Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime considers the importance of the figure of the diva within a queer cultural imaginary in the long twentieth century. Divas, through a performance of the sublime, productively stretch the boundaries of queerness and race into new directions. I argue that …
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Variable Selection and Decision Trees: The DiVaS and ALoVaS Methods
In this thesis we propose a novel modification to Bayesian decision tree methods. We provide a historical survey of the statistics and computer science research in decision trees. Our approach facilitates covariate selection explicitly in the model, something not present in previous research. We …
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O trono do pop em jogo: tensionamentos discursivos entre crítica, fãs e haters sobre divas pop no metacritic
Esta pesquisa possui uma abordagem dedutiva e pretende entender as engrenagens e tensionamentos discursivos entre crítica musical, fãs e haters em relação aos sentidos de “diva pop”. A análise se dá a partir dos comentários e avalições deixadas no site Metacritic e tem como pressupostos teóricos e …
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Township theatre-making as a developmental tool for Khayelitsha youth : an applied theatre study from an ethnographic perspective
… youth theatre group in Khayelitsha called Qina n Divas. It considers why and how this theatre making process is a youth development tool within the ambit of applied theatre. The study is partly driven by my memories and experiences of growing up in a township, as well as applied theatre aims, …
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The making of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging the diva through cabarets, pubs and Into the recital hall
… Disgrace Kelly, an aggregate of a multitude of divas studied and performed throughout the research. This study informed the structure of Diva Bites the Dust programme and is explored contextually within the exegesis. Diva Bites the Dust was the culmination of experimentation with performance …
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… beyond human life. From posthumous opera divas and futuristic avatars to fungal networks, operatic stories narrate the recalibration of congenital bodies and their processes rehearse posthuman existence within anthropocentric operatic structures. Taking on a posthumanist lens as a tool to …
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Diva Voce : reimagining the diva in contemporary feminist performance
… mapping the cultural and aesthetic territory of divas and contemporary female solo performance (literature reviews, performance reviews, popular culture reviews). It also critically engages the provocations of feminist philosophers Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous (among others), and with those of …
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Camping in the Classroom: Ridiculous Theatre as Serious Drama
My first semester pursuing my MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy I vocal-coached an openly gay student playing a straight character who would mask his sexual identity in such a manner that his performance became stiff and uninteresting. Rather than using his personal identity as an asset in the …