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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"physicality"”.
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"It's Just Gym": Physicality and Identity among African American Adolescent Girls
… school in the Midwest experience and enact their physicality in school settings. This study was devised as an attempt to critically examine how local cultural context informs the disproportionately high levels of obesity and the disproportionately low levels of physical activity documented among …
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What Registers in the Body: Place and the Physicality of Painting
<p>Integrating twenty-first century skills within the classroom has become a global driving force within the educational field. While schools have adopted models of one-to-one technology or digital formats for native English speakers, addressing the twenty-first century skills for English language …
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Modern Dance, Embodiment, and Society: The Graham Technique’s Resistance to Conditioned Physicality
<p>Martha Graham, foremost pioneer of American Modern dance, is the originator and developer of what is known today as the Graham technique. When this technique is removed from performative contexts, the philosophy of its practice can add insight to a discussion of embodiment and what it means to …
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The Influence of Physicality and Remote Collaboration in Moments of Design Convergence
The COVD-19 pandemic forced the world into a natural experiment, one that brings into sharp relief the potential and the limitations of our economy’s capacity to support remote collaboration. While the implications of remote work ripple out across an infinite array of economic and social contexts, …
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The Quartet’s Death: Embodiment, Performativity, and Physicality in Heinz Holliger’s 1973 String Quartet
… and the works that employ them rely on the physicality of these techniques in order to create additional layers of meaning. The concrete parameters involved in making use of such resources can sometimes take precedence over or drive other more abstract compositional materials such as precise …
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Phrases of the kinetic : dynamic physicality as a dimension of the design process
At its core, the concept of Tangible Interfaces leverages the idea of using the movement of the body as an inherent part of the human side of a human-computer interaction, assuming that bodily engagement and tactile manipulation can facilitate deeper understanding and more intuitive experiences. …
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Drawing and re-drawing: Working with the physicality of the performing body in costume design
… design costumes that work effectively with the physicality of the performing body? This research is located in the field of scenography and refers specifically to costume design practices within this field. The research project developed from a growing visibility of performances developed and …
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Embodied cognition in robots and human evolution
… Brooks. The idea is that the feedback from the physicality of humans is a precognition to our intelligence. The choice example I use for our physicality is the motion of throwing, particularly the javelin throw. For robotics, I focus on the development of 'eyes' in Brooks' robot Cog and show how …
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Waiting Room
… and other topics pertaining to the body and physicality.
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Coaching in the digital age : how is digitalisation influencing executive coaching? : a grounded theory exploration
… of depth driven by a disturbed presence, loss of physicality and blurred boundaries in a video coaching setup. The study found that coaches encounter digitalisation-driven change both directly and indirectly. As coaches prepare to navigate the future through their actions, they simultaneously …
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"Let Us Make 'adam": An Edenic Model of Personal Ontology
… In short, the Edenic model highlights both the physicality and the uniqueness of human ontology. It points to a human constitution that is physical, and yet it does not compromise humans’ unique identity or place in God’s creation. This is because the text shows the image of God to be the mark …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… has demonstrated an on-going concern with physicality, transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies and ideologies that have created the modem states and cultures of Laos. ey concern in modern societies. Sport and physical culture has in turn given material and aesthetic expression to the …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… has demonstrated an on-going concern with physicality, transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies and ideologies that have created the modem states and cultures of Laos. ey concern in modern societies. Sport and physical culture has in turn given material and aesthetic expression to the …
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The consumption of tattoos and tattooing : the body as permanent text
… a site of embodied expression that is bounded by physicality, and permanence. I present a typology of tattooed consumers based on levels of commitment and explore in depth two main categories, physicality, and, permanence. I find that the physical permanence is shown through the commitment to …
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Dark Park: visceral experiments with narrative in dance theatre
… It suggests a story through movement and physicality and investigates the ability of narrative to connect directly to the emotional core of the spectator.
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Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility
… Beckett, also the role of the masculine body's physicality within ritualized actions.
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Disease and Dis -Ease: Emotions, Sociality and Illness in Punata, Bolivia
… emotions are spoken about as if they had ""physicality"". They can be accumulated in the body, transformed into other substances such as bile; or they can be eliminated through breast milk or through the uterus. Two predominant discourses influence whether a particular person succumbs to …
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Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood
… through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections beginning with an intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because she …
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The embody-ment of power? : women and physical activity
… doing the research explores the relation between physicality and social power, and considers the role of the body in the construction of gender power relations. The key concepts used to explore this area are agency and structure, hegemony, negotiation, empowerment and physicality. More broadly the …
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Pentimento: Revealing the integral polaroid in a digital age. Singular, physical, sculptural
Interest in the physicality of the photograph, and at the very moment photographic images are increasingly dematerialised and infinitely reproduced due to the impact of digital technologies, has thus far failed to address the integral Polaroid - a curious oversight considering its unique and …
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