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Green, Amy Catherine. ""Dance, Dance Revolution": The Function of Dance in American Politics, 1763-1800." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626597.
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Adair, Christy. "Dance, gender and ethnicity : a cultural history of Phoenix Dance Company, 1981-2001." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416838.
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Trotter, Cala A. "Tap Dance: The Lost Art Form Regained." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275769569.
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Denton, Margaret Abbie. "Joanna Priest : her place in Adelaide's dance history /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armd415.pdf.
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Lee, Tsung-Hsin. "Taiwanese Eyes on the Modern: Cold War Dance Diplomacy and American Modern Dances in Taiwan, 1950–1980." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1594914032775976.
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Sintès, Guillaume. "Préfiguration, structuration et enjeux esthétiques du métier de chorégraphe (France, 1957-1984) : une histoire administrative, réglementaire et politique de la danse." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080069.
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De l'inscription dans la loi française de la reconnaissance de son statut d'auteur (le 11 mars 1957) à la publication de la définition légale de sa fonction au Journal Officiel (le 1er janvier 1984), une génération de chorégraphes a construit les contours, les modalités et les conditions d'un métier. Ce combat s’est traduit par un engagement syndical de longue haleine pendant les années 1960 et 1970. Réuni au sein du Syndicat national des auteurs et compositeurs (SNAC), un groupe de chorégraphes a travaillé à l’élaboration de rapports, d’enquêtes et d’études qui ont abouti à l’organisation professionnelle du champ chorégraphique, permettant ainsi à la « nouvelle danse française » qui lui succèdera dans les années 1980, d'obtenir une considérable visibilité esthétique et de marquer de son empreinte l'histoire culturelle et artistique. Rendre compte des progrès sociaux, comme des configurations et reconfigurations du métier de chorégraphe, c’est aussi rendre compte de la structuration du champ chorégraphique dans son ensemble. Cette thèse interroge l’historiographie juridique du droit d’auteur des chorégraphes pour clarifier la notion de statut d’auteur en danse. Elle propose une généalogie de la politique culturelle en danse pour démythifier l’idée d’un désert administratif et chorégraphique, constitutif de l’ère pré-Lang. Enfin, l’étude des différents projets de réglementation de l’enseignement de la danse permet de révéler les enjeux politiques et esthétiques qui ont contribué, pendant près de vingt-cinq années de négociation, à exacerber les oppositions au sein du champ chorégraphique. Ainsi, s’élabore une histoire administrative, réglementaire et politique de la danse en France qui éclaire une période de l’histoire contemporaine de la danse encore trop peu étudiéeFrom the registration of an author status' recognition within the French law (March 11th, 1957), to the publication of its function's legal definition in the January 1st, 1984 Journal Officiel (official gazette of the French Republic), a whole generation of choreographers created the outlines, modalities and conditions of a profession. This struggle was the result of a long term trade union commitment between the years 1960 and 1970. Brought together under the National Syndicate of Authors and Composers (SNAC), a group of choreographers worked on drafting reports, surveys and studies which resulted in the professional organization of a choreographic field, thus allowing what was to become “the new 80s French dance” (nouvelle danse française) to obtain a substantial aesthetic visibility and to leave its mark within the cultural and artistic history. To give a full account of the social progress, such as configurations and reconfigurations of the profession of choreographer, is to also give a full account of the structuring of the choreographic field as a whole. This thesis questions the legal historiography regarding choreographers' copyright law in France (droits d'auteur) so that the notion of author's status in dance can be clarified. It suggests a genealogy of cultural politics in dance in order to demystify the idea of an administrative and choreographic deserted landscape, constitutive of the pre-Lang era (Jack Lang, French minister of culture). Finally, the study of the different projects on the regulation of dance education makes it possible to reveal political and aesthetic issues which, during a negotiation period of almost twenty five years, has contributed to the exacerbation of opposition within the choreographic field. Thus, an administrative, regulatory and political history of dance in France is able to develop, which reveals an era of contemporary history of dance still insufficiently researched
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Wood, Lisa Lyn-Dell. "Elizabeth Streb: A Study of her Choreographic History Including Descriptions of Selected Works." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391769677.
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Hooper, Colleen. "Public Movement: Dancers and the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) 1974-1982." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/372703.
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DancePh.D.
For eight years, dancers in the United States performed and taught as employees of the federal government. They were eligible for the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), a Department of Labor program that assisted the unemployed during the recession of the late 1970s. Dance primarily occurred in artistic or leisure contexts, and employing dancers as federal government workers shifted dance to a labor context. CETA dancers performed “public service” in senior centers, hospitals, prisons, public parks, and community centers. Through a combination of archival research, qualitative interviews, and philosophical framing, I address how CETA disrupted public spaces and forced dancers and audiences to reconsider how representation functions in performance. I argue that CETA supported dance as public service while local programs had latitude regarding how they defined dance as public service. Part 1 is entitled Intersections: Dance, Labor, and Public Art and it provides the historical and political context necessary to understand how CETA arts programs came to fruition in the 1970s. It details how CETA arts programs relate to the history of U.S. federal arts funding and labor programs. I highlight how John Kreidler initiated the first CETA arts program in San Francisco, California, and detail the national scope of arts programming. In Part 2 of this dissertation, CETA in the Field: Dancers and Administrators, I focus on case studies from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York CETA arts programs to illustrate the range of how dance was conceived and performed as public service. CETA dancers were called upon to produce “public dance” which entailed federal funding, free performances in public spaces, and imagining a public that would comprise their audiences. By acknowledging artists and performers as workers who could perform public service, CETA was instrumental in shifting artists’ identities from rebellious outsiders to service economy laborers who wanted to be part of society. CETA arts programs reenacted Works Progress Administration (WPA) arts programs from the 1930s and adapted these ideas of artists as public servants into the Post-Fordist, service economy of the 1970s United States. CETA dancers became bureaucrats responsible for negotiating their work environments and this entailed a number of administrative duties. While this made it challenging for dancers to manage their basic schedules and material needs, it also allowed for a degree of flexibility, schedule gaps, and opportunities to create new performance and teaching situations. By funding dance as public service, CETA arts programs staged a macroeconomic intervention into the dance field that redefined dance as public service.
Temple University--Theses
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Brough, Edward Luna. "Jogo de mandinga - game of sorcery - : a preliminary investigation of history, tradition, and bodily practice in capoeira angola /." Connect to resource, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1195592448.
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Mayer, Lisa, and Lisa Mayer. "History and Performance of the Siciliana Dance Style for the Bassoon." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625088.
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The siciliana is a dance style that has been used in a wide variety of musical
contexts, from simple woodwind duets to classical symphonies. Its origins and history
are somewhat vague and complex, but can be traced through the works of composers
from the 1600s to modern times. Considering the history of these works provides
valuable insight for the performer and musical scholar, giving context to the pieces
being prepared and aiding in accurate representation of the composers’ true intentions.
The ancient ancestors of the siciliana, folk music of southern Italy, gave rise to a
style used to evoke images of the simple pastoral throughout the baroque, classical,
romantic, and modern eras. Though it had humble origins, the siciliana rose to great
significance and popularity during the baroque era. Classical composers took this
tradition and modified it for their own purposes, straying slightly from the baroque
traditions of sound, instrumentation, and use. The romantic era produced siciliana that
were even further from their roots, adding new harmonies and significance in new types
of works.
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Sintès, Guillaume. "Préfiguration, structuration et enjeux esthétiques du métier de chorégraphe (France, 1957-1984) : une histoire administrative, réglementaire et politique de la danse." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080069.
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De l'inscription dans la loi française de la reconnaissance de son statut d'auteur (le 11 mars 1957) à la publication de la définition légale de sa fonction au Journal Officiel (le 1er janvier 1984), une génération de chorégraphes a construit les contours, les modalités et les conditions d'un métier. Ce combat s’est traduit par un engagement syndical de longue haleine pendant les années 1960 et 1970. Réuni au sein du Syndicat national des auteurs et compositeurs (SNAC), un groupe de chorégraphes a travaillé à l’élaboration de rapports, d’enquêtes et d’études qui ont abouti à l’organisation professionnelle du champ chorégraphique, permettant ainsi à la « nouvelle danse française » qui lui succèdera dans les années 1980, d'obtenir une considérable visibilité esthétique et de marquer de son empreinte l'histoire culturelle et artistique. Rendre compte des progrès sociaux, comme des configurations et reconfigurations du métier de chorégraphe, c’est aussi rendre compte de la structuration du champ chorégraphique dans son ensemble. Cette thèse interroge l’historiographie juridique du droit d’auteur des chorégraphes pour clarifier la notion de statut d’auteur en danse. Elle propose une généalogie de la politique culturelle en danse pour démythifier l’idée d’un désert administratif et chorégraphique, constitutif de l’ère pré-Lang. Enfin, l’étude des différents projets de réglementation de l’enseignement de la danse permet de révéler les enjeux politiques et esthétiques qui ont contribué, pendant près de vingt-cinq années de négociation, à exacerber les oppositions au sein du champ chorégraphique. Ainsi, s’élabore une histoire administrative, réglementaire et politique de la danse en France qui éclaire une période de l’histoire contemporaine de la danse encore trop peu étudiéeFrom the registration of an author status' recognition within the French law (March 11th, 1957), to the publication of its function's legal definition in the January 1st, 1984 Journal Officiel (official gazette of the French Republic), a whole generation of choreographers created the outlines, modalities and conditions of a profession. This struggle was the result of a long term trade union commitment between the years 1960 and 1970. Brought together under the National Syndicate of Authors and Composers (SNAC), a group of choreographers worked on drafting reports, surveys and studies which resulted in the professional organization of a choreographic field, thus allowing what was to become “the new 80s French dance” (nouvelle danse française) to obtain a substantial aesthetic visibility and to leave its mark within the cultural and artistic history. To give a full account of the social progress, such as configurations and reconfigurations of the profession of choreographer, is to also give a full account of the structuring of the choreographic field as a whole. This thesis questions the legal historiography regarding choreographers' copyright law in France (droits d'auteur) so that the notion of author's status in dance can be clarified. It suggests a genealogy of cultural politics in dance in order to demystify the idea of an administrative and choreographic deserted landscape, constitutive of the pre-Lang era (Jack Lang, French minister of culture). Finally, the study of the different projects on the regulation of dance education makes it possible to reveal political and aesthetic issues which, during a negotiation period of almost twenty five years, has contributed to the exacerbation of opposition within the choreographic field. Thus, an administrative, regulatory and political history of dance in France is able to develop, which reveals an era of contemporary history of dance still insufficiently researched
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Hall, Reginald Richard. "Irish music and dance in London, 1890-1970 : a socio-cultural history." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239697.
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Odhiambo, Seonagh. "A Conversation With Dance History: Movement and Meaning in the Cultural Body." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/25258.
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This study regards the problem of a binary in dance discursive practices, seen in how "world dance" is separated from European concert dance. A close look at 1930s Kenya Luo women's dance in the context of "dance history" raises questions about which dances matter, who counts as a dancer, and how dance is defined. When discursive practices are considered in light of multicultural demographic trends and globalisation the problem points toward a crisis of reason in western discourse about how historical origins and "the body" have been theorised. Within a western philosophical tradition the body and experience are negated as a basis for theorising. Historical models and theories about race and gender often relate binary thinking whereby the body is theorised as text. An alternative theoretical model is established wherein dancers' processes of embodying historical meaning provide one of five bases through which to theorise. The central research questions this study poses and attempts to answer are: how can I illuminate a view of dance that is transhistorical and transnational? How can I write about 1930s Luo women in a way that does not create a case study to exist outside of dance history? Research methods challenge historical materialist frameworks for discussions of the body and suggest insight can be gained into how historical narratives operate with coercive power--both in past and present--by examining how meaning is conceptualised and experienced. The problem is situated inside a hermeneutic circle that connects past and present discourses, so tensions are explored between a binary model of past/present and new ways of thinking about dance and history through embodiment. Archives, elder interviews, and oral histories are a means to approach 1930s Luo Kenya. A choreography model is another method of inquiry where meanings about history and dance that subvert categories and binary assumptions are understood and experienced by dancers through somatic processes. A reflective narrative provides the means to untangle influences of disciplines like dance and history on the phenomenon of personal understanding.
Temple University--Theses
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Soares, Luciane Silveira. "Memórias em movimento : histórias do Grupo de Dança da UFRGS." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/67162.
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Este estudo de caráter histórico teve como objetivo reconstruir alguns fragmentos da história do Grupo de Dança da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) a partir da narrativa de alguns bailarinos, professores e coreógrafos que o integraram. Como recorte temporal, foi escolhido o período compreendido entre 1976, ano de sua criação, e 1983 quando aconteceu o seu término. A pesquisa está amparada nos pressupostos teóricometodológicos da história cultural e da história oral, utilizando como fontes materiais impressos e depoimentos orais. O grupo foi fundado na Escola Superior de Educação Física da UFRGS por iniciativa da professora Morgada Cunha e de algumas alunas do curso de Educação Física. Apesar de suas atividades estarem vinculadas e serem realizadas dentro da universidade, a participação de pessoas externas estava aberta, desde que tivessem alguma experiência em dança. O grupo propunha-se a trabalhar com a dança contemporânea, sendo um dos primeiros na cidade de Porto Alegre a se assumir como tal e cujo trabalho se desenvolveu fora do ambiente das escolas de dança. Considerando as fontes de pesquisa, é possível afirmar que uma das características do Grupo de Dança da UFRGS era apresentar, em suas coreografias, elementos utilizando a criatividade e a expressividade, identificadas pelos seus ex-integrantes como um diferencial em relação a outros grupos que coexistiam na época. Tais características eram marcantes na dança contemporânea que o grupo se propunha a apresentar, em que seus integrantes participavam do processo de criação coreográfica através dos chamados laboratórios de expressão. Por fim, são apresentadas possíveis causas para o término das atividades do grupo em 1983, apesar da tentativa de alguns integrantes continuarem dançando juntos fora da UFRGS, mantendo-se assim por pouco mais de um ano. Em 1984, o grupo finalmente se desfez.This study of historical nature aimed to reconstruct some fragments of the history of the Dance Group of University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) from the narrative of some dancers, professors and choreographers who joined it. The time frame chosen was the period between 1976, the year of its creation, and 1983, when it has ended. The research is supported by theoretical and methodological assumptions of cultural history and oral history, using sources such as printed materials and oral testimonies. The group was founded in the College of Physical Education of UFRGS, by initiative of professor Morgada Cunha and some college students. Although their activities were linked and conducted within the university, participation was open to outsiders, since they had some experience in dance. The group proposed to work with contemporary dance, being one of the first in Porto Alegre to assume itself as such and whose work has developed outside dance schools. Considering research sources, it is possible to say that one of its UFRGS’s Dance Group characteristics was to present, in its choreographies, elements of creativity and expressivity, identified by its former members as a differential against other groups that coexisted. These were outstanding characteristics in the contemporary dance proposed by the group, in which its members participate in the process of choreographic creation through so-called laboratories of expression. Finally, we present possible causes for the termination of the group in 1983, despite the attempt by some members to continue dancing together outside UFRGS, remaining that way for a little over a year. In 1984, the group disbanded at last.
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Randall, Tresa M. "Hanya Holm in America, 1931-1936: Dance, Culture and Community." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/14993.
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DancePh.D.
Though she is widely considered one of the "four pioneers" of American modern dance, German-American Hanya Holm (1893-1992) occupies a shadowy presence in dance history literature. She has often been described as someone who fell in love with America, purged her approach of Germanic elements, and emerged with a more universal one. Her "Americanization" has served as evidence of the Americanness of modern dance, thus eclipsing the German influence on modern dance. This dissertation challenges that narrative by casting new light on Holm's worldview and initial intentions in the New World, and by articulating the specifics of the first five years of her American career. In contrast to previous histories, I propose that Holm did not come to the U.S. to forge an independent career as a choreographer; rather, she came as a missionary for Mary Wigman and her Tanz-Gemeinschaft (dance cultural community). To Wigman and Holm, dance was not only an art form; it was a way of life, a revolt against bourgeois sterility and modern alienation, and a utopian communal vision, even a religion. Artistic expression was only one aspect of modern dance's larger purpose. The transformation of social life was equally important, and Holm was a fervent believer in the need for a widespread amateur dance culture. This study uses a historical methodology and accesses traces of the past such as lectures, school reports, promotional material, newspaper articles, personal notebooks, correspondence, photographs, and other material--much of it discussed here for the first time. These sources provide evidence for new descriptions and interpretations of Holm's migration from Germany to the U.S. and from German dance to American dance. I examine cultural contexts that informed Holm's beliefs, such as early twentieth century German life reform and body culture; provide a sustained analysis of the curriculum of the New York Wigman School of the Dance; and consider how the politicization of dance in the 1930s--in both Germany and the U.S.--affected Holm and her work.
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Aramphongphan, Paisid. "Inefficient Moves: Art, Dance, and Queer Bodies in the 1960s." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467507.
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This dissertation examines the intersection of art, dance, and queer sociality though Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and their lesser-known contemporary, Fred Herko, a dancer and choreographer. Traversing art history, dance studies, and queer theory, this study uses analyses of movement, gestures, and embodiment as a bridge between the artistic and the social. In film, photography, and dance, these artists not only made art as queer artists, but their work stemmed from the form of sociality of their communities—the social and creative labor spent on seemingly unproductive ends, such as lounging together on a sofa, posing in performative-social studio sessions, or dancing in an improvised performance-party. Gestures and embodied experience became both the site of the art, and the site of the production of queer subjectivity in this watershed decade for art and queer histories. To unpack their cultural significance, I draw on the work of anthropologist Marcel Mauss on “techniques of the body,” and recent scholarship on embodiment and subjectivity. I propose queer gestures as dances of “inefficiency” in the Maussian sense, that is, as techniques of the body that do not confirm or sustain the social scripts of somatic norms. Given the contemporaneous debates about work, leisure, and alienation in the 1960s, inefficient techniques—as represented in the recurrent motif of the recumbent, languorous male body, for example—can also be read as a critique of industrial efficiency and heteronormative definitions of (re)productivity. Through this focus on bodily techniques, I open up a dialogue between this “underground” body of work with contemporaneous artistic milieus in which the body played an important role, including in 1960s sculpture, proto-feminist practices, postmodern dance, photography, and experimental theater.
Throughout I also foreground the intertwinement of dance culture and queer culture. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s reading of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, this study interprets artistic practices through a reparative lens, drawing together a queer repertoire made up of inefficient moves—just as the artists’ engagements with, and making of, dance culture and queer culture were reparative: an accretive practice of assemblage for imaginative and embodied sustenance.History of Art and Architecture
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Lindberg, Sofia. "Danshistoriskt urval i kursen dansteori : Vilka val görs i undervisningen på gymnasiet?" Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-85382.
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Through an online survey conducted with Swedish high school dance teachers, the contents which make up the dance history course, a mandatory part of dance theory, is mapped out. The guidelines and regulations to which Swedish dance teachers must adhere when constructing the syllabus in the dance history course is broad, and by quantitative method, this study maps out areas where there is broad concurrence between respondents, and areas of greater disparity. By way of an intersectional perspective, the relative richness of historical background within, and among the different styles is brought into historical context. The theory Historical consciousness is used to analyse the consequences of the result in relation to the students’ opportunities to develop an identification with dance history. The result show broad similarities among the respondents, alluding to a general consensus of the contents of the dance history classes. The differences are found in how the individual styles of dance are taught, where hip hop to a greater extent lacks named historical persons, present in ballet and modern dance. Other findings are a predominance of men as named historical figures compared to women and a disproportional focus on the jazz’ early history compared to more contemporary movements.
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Saraogi, Avantika. "Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/302.
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Art and Dance: Sediments, Segments, and Movement (A&D) is a series of photographs that studies dance movement, with the added element of flour to exaggerate and exhibit motion. A&D captures the different styles of dance out of their usual context, so that the actual movement becomes the central focus. This paper on the other hand provides the academic foundation for the artwork. It traces the history of dance photography as a genre. It not only sheds light on the photographic techniques that were used, but also how dance photography has evolved as an art form in its own right. The paper also presents my inspiration for the project and explains how those sources have influenced my images.
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Rimmer, Valerie. "Dance, history and deconstruction : Giselle and Beach Birds for Camera as contrasting sites for a discussion of issues on meaning in dance." Thesis, City University London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301104.
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Robinson, Raymond Stanley, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and of Social Community and Organisational Studies School. "Dreaming tracks : history of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, 1972-1979 : its place in the continuum." THESIS_XXX_SCOS_Robinson_R.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/76.
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Dreaming Tracks was chosen for the title of this history because of its reference to the journeys and routes taken by the ancestral founders of each of the extended family clans. As they travelled they recorded the events and situations they encountered along the way , which they left in story, painting, song lines and dances for the future survival of their people. The history of the Aboriginal/Islander Skills Development Scheme also pertains to a journey. This journey records the events that brought about the establishment of the longest surviving, urban Indigenous dance organization. It's a voyage that identifies the obstacles and accomplishments of its founding members, who dedicated themselves to the hard work to ensure the continuum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance. It was their dream, to have an Australian Black Dance Company that would create a link between past and present, traditional and urban. The pathways they created equipped urban Indigenous Australians with a unique dance identity of their own, and established the path to continued contact with the traditional owners. Dreaming Tracks is contemporary Dreaming lore that begins with the contention for land rights in the early 1970's and follows the progress of the Aboriginal/Islander Skills Development Scheme to the end of the decade. It records the desires, dreams and conflicts that brought this organization into being. In parallel, the concerns of the founder, Carole Y. Johnson, sets the path for the journey, which by the end of the twentieth-century witnessed the establishment of an accredited dance course, two dance companies (The Aboriginal/Islander Dance Theatre and Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia) and students who are key participants in the artistic design of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney AustraliaMaster of Arts (Hons) (Performance)
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Lawrence, Timothy. "After dark : a history of American DJs, discotheques and dance music, 1965-1975." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298735.
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D'Amelio, Toni. "Ghost bodies : history, performance, and practice in contemporary dance in France 1980-2000." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410973.
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Tardif, Audrée-Isabelle. "A cultural history of social dance among the upper ranks in eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251856.
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Castorena, Sohnya Sierra. "REMEMBERING AND PERFORMING HISTORY, TRADITION, AND IDENTITY: A MULTI-SENSORY ANALYSIS OF DANZA AZTECA." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/195376.
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This dissertation investigates the production and reception of a modern transnational pan-indigenous ideology and multi-plex identity, through the acquisition of Danza Azteca expressive cultural practices. My research is situated within the Quetzalcoatl-Citlalli Danza Azteca group, based in Sacramento, California. I argue that through the embodied act of dancing, danzantes are able to access, reconstruct, and express socio-historical memories, feelings, and their sense of space and place, effectively creating a Mexica identity and way of life based in a pan-indigenous ideology, a decolonized consciousness. I explore the expressive cultural practices and the processes that each danzante participates in to create this pan-indigenous ideology and identity. I explore the transformative power and habitus of Danza Azteca, an emergent social movement, and I investigate its ability to act as a vehicle for self-representation for individual danzantes as well as the larger Chicana/o and Native communities in which it is situated. Danza encompasses more than just the physical act of dancing. Danzantes are engaged in the movement, music, as well as the multiple visual representations of danza. A danzante may utilize one or more of danza's expressive cultural practices to produce and express the various manifestations of their multi-plex indigenous identities. Danza is seen not as a dance or a religion, it is viewed among the danzantes as a way of life: as prayer, tradition, heritage, history and dancing identity. I argue that through the expression and reception of danza at Danza Azteca dance events, the indigenous ideology acquired, and the expressive cultural practices shared by the danzantes, grant them the power to construct, produce and express a highly politicized pan-indigenous identity. The production of this pan-indigenous identity and ideology confronts past geo-political and ethnic boundaries and is grounded in the specific socio-political relationships the Quetzalcoatl-Citlalli group is embedded in and the corresponding ideology of the Maestro of the Danza group. I explore how the danzantes connect with socio-historical memories via movement, as well as in Danza art vis-`a-vis the images and symbols on their trajes and armas. I show how danzantes employ Nahua art and symbolism as representations of their gendered, social and cultural identity. I focus upon the body as the site where memories are stored, accessed, and expressed. The performance, experience, and reception of dance is a particularly powerful site for the embodiment, expression and reception of identity and memory.
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Cavrell, Holly Elizabeth 1955. "Dando corpo à história." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284369.
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Orientador: Cassia Navas Alves de CastroTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta tese é uma abordagem pessoal do mapeamento da transformação do corpo ao longo da História da Dança. Seu primeiro momento é centrado no desenvolvimento do Ballet, a primeira forma codificada de dança ocidental (iniciada nas cortes Francesa e Italiana no século XV), indo até os revolucionários Ballets Russes dos séculos XIX e XX. Neste período, o corpo (do Rei), um modelo de comportamento e etiqueta social, progrediu para se tornar o veículo da expressão de gênero e de identidade sexual, enquanto se abria o terreno para a afirmação do dançarino como artista e não apenas profissional de entretenimento. A segunda parte desta tese foca o desenvolvimento do artista singular, dentro das duas primeiras gerações da Dança Moderna (1890-1930). Neste período reafirma-se o papel das mulheres na Dança, especificamente como artistas e educadoras independentes, o corpo tornando-se um instrumento de invenção e intenção psicológica, espiritual e filosófica. Seguindo essa parte, temos uma seção de "Transição", em que é discutido o rompimento com a dança de autoexpressão e o movimento em direção ao esteticismo objetivo. O corpo, influenciado por um clima político conservador, era parte de uma concepção de tempo e espaço mais imparcialmente democrática, igualmente ocupando (ou coexistindo) no palco com outros elementos cênicos. No terceiro momento, a autora se insere no texto, estratégia metodológica através da qual seu corpo se sujeita à mesma análise textual e comparativa dos capítulos anteriores, revelando uma possível gênese de um olhar clínico no tratamento de transformações deste próprio corpo no campo da Dança
Abstract: This thesis is a personal approach to charting the transformation of the body through dance history. The first moment centers on the development of the Ballet, the first codified dance form which began in the Italian and French courts in the 15th century, and ends with the revolutionary Ballets Russes of the 19th and 20th century. In this period the (King's) body which was a model for social behavior progressed to become the vehicle for expressing gender and sexual identity while opening the terrain for affirmation of the dancer as artist not entertainer. The second part of the thesis focuses on the development of the singular artist within the first two generations of the Modern Dance Movement, 1890 -1930. This period reaffirmed women in dance specifically as independent artists and educators and the body became an instrument of invention and psychological, spiritual and philosophical intention. Following this a transitional section is inserted which discusses the break from self expressionistic dance and the movement towards an objective aestheticism. The body, influenced by a conservative political climate, was part of a more impartially democratic conception of space and time, equally occupying (or co-existing) on the stage with other elements. The third chapter the author is inserted into the text in which her body is subjected to the same textual/comparative analysis as the previous chapters and what is shown becomes the creation of a clinical eye for talking about her own body's transformation in the dance field
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Artes Cenicas
Doutor em Artes
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Gittinger, Anne Meredith. "Class Act: Negotiating Art and Market in the Career of Isadora Duncan." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626615.
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Gross, Mara Judson. "Time, Space, And Energy For Dance In Education." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218206523.
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Galea, Nicole S. "Wings of gauze : a history of dance in Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane, from 1926-1960." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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Theatre dance history in Brisbane is a topic with a paucity of published literature. This is a cause for concern as it suggests that the city has limited dance history worthy of
documentation. The texts that do exist lack analysis and discourse, and can mostly be categorised as 'coffee table' book. Texts that deconstruct or question history and its
authors, are conspicuously absent.
To address the misconception of a lack of theatre dance history in Brisbane, this study therefore examines and analyses the history of theatre dance in Brisbane between 1926- 1960, using Her Majesty's Theatre as a case study. In adopting a historical post modern paradigm, this thesis finally constructs its own version of theatre dance history in Brisbane.
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Robinson, Raymond Stanley. "Dreaming tracks : history of the Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Scheme, 1972-1979 : its place in the continuum." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/76.
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Dreaming Tracks was chosen for the title of this history because of its reference to the journeys and routes taken by the ancestral founders of each of the extended family clans. As they travelled they recorded the events and situations they encountered along the way , which they left in story, painting, song lines and dances for the future survival of their people. The history of the Aboriginal/Islander Skills Development Scheme also pertains to a journey. This journey records the events that brought about the establishment of the longest surviving, urban Indigenous dance organization. It's a voyage that identifies the obstacles and accomplishments of its founding members, who dedicated themselves to the hard work to ensure the continuum of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance. It was their dream, to have an Australian Black Dance Company that would create a link between past and present, traditional and urban. The pathways they created equipped urban Indigenous Australians with a unique dance identity of their own, and established the path to continued contact with the traditional owners. Dreaming Tracks is contemporary Dreaming lore that begins with the contention for land rights in the early 1970's and follows the progress of the Aboriginal/Islander Skills Development Scheme to the end of the decade. It records the desires, dreams and conflicts that brought this organization into being. In parallel, the concerns of the founder, Carole Y. Johnson, sets the path for the journey, which by the end of the twentieth-century witnessed the establishment of an accredited dance course, two dance companies (The Aboriginal/Islander Dance Theatre and Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia) and students who are key participants in the artistic design of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Australia
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Meadows, Bethany. "We came 2 get down| A history of pop locking in Los Angeles." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527017.
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This study draws a rich, vivid portrait of a marginalized and hidden dance community and how it made a visible impact on the mainstream and in countries around the world. In the 1980s black and Latino teens in Los Angeles performed a street dance called pop locking. During this time dancing helped keep urban teens out of gangs and create positive identities. In the 1990s pop locking went underground, but less than ten years later returned in areas outside of Los Angeles. This allowed 1980s dancers to serve as teachers and mentors to new dancers.
Twenty-seven pop lockers who danced from the 1980s to the 2000s were interviewed from June 2010 to July 2013. These interviews capture the history of the dance that started on the streets of California. Participant observation was conducted at Homeland Cultural Center in Long Beach, which is a hub for pop locking in Southern California.
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Teixeira, Paula Caruso 1970. "A história das origens da criação do método Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (BPI) e do seu desenvolvimento no primeiro percurso da sua criadora (1970-1987)." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285215.
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Orientador: Graziela Estela Fonseca RodriguesTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem por finalidade principal desvendar como foram as origens da criação em 1980, do método de pesquisa e criação em dança Bailarino-Pesquisador-Intérprete (BPI) e do seu desenvolvimento no primeiro percurso da sua criadora (1980-1987), Graziela Rodrigues. Descobrir o que da sua formação em diversos métodos, sistemas e técnicas de dança e de teatro e em linguagens afins influenciou no BPI, bem como o que do contexto histórico da dança no Brasil dos anos 70 e 80. Para responder à essas indagações, a autora fez pesquisas bibliográficas e documentais, mas, sobretudo, pesquisas de campo, através da realização de dezoito entrevistas semiestruturadas inclusive com a própria criadora do BPI e o restante, na sua maioria, com artistas que trabalharam e conviveram com ela no período histórico de 1970-1987. Após a análise dessas entrevistas e o levantamento das suas categorias, dialogou os dados relevantes coletados de campo com os dados bibliográficos e documentais. Assim, a discussão desta tese revela novos dados sobre a história da dança no Brasil no período histórico estudado e sobre a história deste método, das suas origens, do seu nascimento até 1987. Depois dessas reflexões, a autora chegou a algumas conclusões, sendo que a principal é que por mais que o BPI ressoe o espírito dos anos 70 e 80 na história da dança no Brasil, ele apresenta uma originalidade em relação aos métodos, sistemas e técnicas que contribuíram para a formação da sua criadora
Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to disclose how the origins of the creation of the method of research and creation in (DRI) Dancer-Researcher-Interpreter in 1980 were and of its development in the first course of its creator (1970-1987), Graziela Rodrigues. Also discover what, from her education in several dance and theater methods, systems and techniques and in related languages, influenced the DRI, as well as what from the historical context of dance in the Brazil of the 1970¿s and 1980¿s. In order to answer these questions, the author made bibliographic and documentary research, but above all, fieldwork by having eighteen semi-structured interviews, including with the creator of DRI and the rest, mostly with artists who worked and lived with her in the historical period from 1970 to 1987. After analyzing these interviews and the gathering of its categories, she dialogued the relevant data collected from the field with the bibliographical and documental data. Therefore the discussion of this thesis reveals new data on the history of dance in Brazil in the historical period studied and on the history of this method, its origins and its birth until 1987. After these reflections, the author came to some conclusions and the main one is that to whatever degree the DRI resounds the spirit of the 70s and 80s in the history of dance in Brazil, it shows an originality in relation to the methods, systems and techniques which contributed to the education of its creator
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Gearhart, Rebecca Kathleen. "Ngoma memories a history of competitive music and dance performance on the Kenya coast /." [Florida] : State University System of Florida, 1998. http://etd.fcla.edu/etd/uf/1998/amd0044/ngoma.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1998.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 291 p.; also contains graphics (most in color) and 8 video clips. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-226).
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Romaguera, Lauren D. "Identification Through Movement: Dance as the Embodied Archive of Memory, History, and Cultural Identity." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3666.
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Blasdale-Clarke, Heather Evelyn. "Social dance and early Australian settlement: An historical examination of the role of social dance for convicts and the 'lower orders' in the period between 1788 and 1840." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121495/1/Heather_Clarke_Thesis.pdf.
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This is the first comprehensive survey of social dance in the Australian colonies in the period between 1788 and 1840. The thesis investigated the convict and 'lower order' dance culture through extensive historical research combined with a series of workshops. It indicated that dance was a significant factor in the lives of the 'lower orders' and convicts in the early colony. Dance was a pastime that brought people together, gave hope and good cheer in the harshest of situations, allowed a temporary escape from troubles and encouraged people to put aside grievances. This practice-led research revealed important insights into the relevance of dance in the past, present and future.
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Liu, Cuilan. "Song, Dance, and Instrumental Music in Buddhist Canon Law." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11232.
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Maintaining a balanced approach to music is a shared challenge in all religions. Depending on the context in which music is used in religious activities, it is either praised as a powerful medium to please the divine or condemned as a sensual allurement that hinders spiritual advancement. This study discusses the treatment of vocal and instrumental music as well as the allied category of dance in Buddhism. Specifically, it analyzes the regulations of different forms of musical activities in Buddhist canon law and their subsequent interpretation in Tibet and China.
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Nayee, Sanjana. "Not really bollywood a history of popular hindi films, songs, and dance with pedagogical applications for understanding indian history and culture." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1534.
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Contemporary fascination with 'Bollywood' proliferates much of reality TV dance shows, media blurbs and other communicative outlets. These avenues homogenize India as 'Bollywood', while social and political outlets place Indians and people of South Asian descent into fitted stereotypes that are ridiculed and largely distorted. The intent of this thesis was to explore how the growing international intrigues of popular Hindi films exist beyond 'Bollywood'. This study is especially important because current U.S. demographics are undergoing a 'browning' effect yet a comprehensive method for understanding South Asian peoples and their cultures have been isolated to terrorist 'breeders', the model minority or as products primed for consumption. This thesis discusses the history of popular Hindi popular cinema, its changing methods of songs and dance and includes options of pedagogical applications within secondary level classrooms. In short, this thesis is an effort to highlight the similarities present amongst the differences that are consciously and unconsciously created or implicitly believed by the general population when attempting to decipher the many different components that exist across South Asian cultures, ethnicities, traditions, histories and identities.ID: 031908403; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for honors in the major in DEPT HERE.; Thesis (B.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references.
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Parfitt, Clare. "Capturing the Cancan : body politics from the Enlightenment to Postmodernity." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2008. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/capturing-the-cancan(1150cbac-e8fc-49f0-8ed7-eb62fe298e3b).html.
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The subject of this thesis is the cancan – a dance form that emerged in Paris in the 1820s, and that has undergone a number of transformations in its continued performance, both live and onscreen, over the last two hundred years. The thesis focuses on particular historical moments during which the cancan’s embodiment of social tensions caused it to gain visibility as a site of both desire and moral panic, often centring on the supposedly uncontrollable bodies that it creates and performs. These moments are characterised by the employment of various legal, mechanical, digital and critical technologies to capture the cancan’s disorderly performance. The complex relationship between the cancan, these technologies and the shifting historical, cultural and political contexts which animate them, form the crux of the discussion. The cancan’s emergence and development as a live dance form in the nineteenth century, its relation to the invention of cinema in the 1890s, its popularity in narrative cinema of the 1920s and 1950s, and its revival in Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! (2001), are analysed from a postmodern perspective, in which modernist hierarchies of high and low, elite and popular, mind and body, are reinterpreted as structures of power. It is argued that at these moments the cancan becomes a particularly salient mediator of the conflict between rational and irrational body politics that had its origins in the Enlightenment. By embodying irrationality, and later, various intersections of rationality and irrationality, cancan performers and spectators make manifest alternative constructions of the body and society that may be utopian, dystopian, or both. In doing so, they participate corporeally in the ongoing negotiation of post-Enlightenment body politics. The thesis thus seeks to demonstrate the importance of popular cultural forms such as the cancan for reconstructing cultural histories in postmodernity.
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Alcofra, Gabriela Machado Freire Tournillon 1986. "O rosto na dança : um olhar sobre expressão e expressividade na dança contemporânea." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284989.
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Orientador: Júlia Ziviani VitielloDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Essa dissertação investiga a expressão do rosto na dança contemporânea, tendo como motivação inicial a observação de uma padronização da expressão do rosto em uma aparência neutralizada, sem tônus ou variação expressiva, em espetáculos variados apresentados no Rio de Janeiro em 2010. Divide-se em duas vertentes: na primeira faz uma contextualização histórica observando a relação entre expressão do rosto e expressividade do espetáculo de acordo com cada período histórico, indo desde o balé clássico até a dança contemporânea no Brasil, suas origens, heranças e influências; na segunda vertente faz relações entre o rosto como identidade do sujeito na sociedade e o rosto expresso na dança contemporânea, levantando associações entre o figurativo e o abstrato na dança e a experiência estética como ativador da presença cênica. A pesquisa é atravessada por laboratórios de criação em uma metodologia teórico-experimental, criando os espetáculos Movimento Sem Face e Dança sobre Nada e os vídeos Estudos para um Movimento sem Face
Abstract: This dissertation investigates the expression of the face in contemporary dance, having as initial motivation the observation of a standardization of the expression of the face in a neutralized appearance, without variation or expressive tone, in varied performances presented in Rio de Janeiro in 2010. It is divided into two parts: the first is a historical contextualization observing the relationship between facial expression and expressiveness of the show according to each historical period, ranging from classical ballet to contemporary dance in Brazil, its origins, influences and heritages; in the second strand makes relations between the face like the subject's identity in society and the face expressed in contemporary dance, raising associations between the figurative and the abstract in the dance and the aesthetic experience as activator of stage presence. The research is crossed by laboratories of creation in a theoretical-experimental methodology
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Spalink, Angenette M. "Loie Fuller and Modern Movement." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277060256.
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Mayer, Rebecca F. "Speaking of, Talkin 'bout, Riffing on Tap." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4173.
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This paper examines the dialects of the language that is tap dance. Unlike more codified forms of dance such as ballet, which utilize a universally-accepted technique system, the evolution of tap dance has been largely rooted in oral tradition. During Broadway’s early years, entrepreneurs in the dance training business published manuals and dictionaries on tap, as did several self-styled experts in the 1990s; because many of these books are self-published, referring to them requires educated discrimination. Drawing on my own experience as a dance student, performer, choreographer, and educator, I have observed the preferred verbal language, dance styles, and technical applications of professional and amateur dancers in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, New England, and the Pacific Northwest. This research combined with a comparative analysis of tap dance as portrayed in commercial theatre as well as concert dance lays the groundwork for future study in tap dance pedagogy.
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Benn, Sophie Luhman. "La Methode graphique: Dance, Notation, and Media, 1852-1912." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1623408754116016.
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Layne, Valmont. "A history of dance and jazz band performance in the Western Cape in the post-1945 era." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7853.
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Bibliography: leaves 173-184.This thesis considers aspects of jazz and dance band performance in Cape Town between the 1930s and the 1960s, with special reference to the post-1945 period. It examines ways in which local dance and jazz musicians and audiences responded to political, social and cultural change in this period by considering key institutional constraints, the impact of broader political, social and cultural change, and local responses to this change. Primary data was collected from oral biographical material, archives, official printed sources, and newspaper reports.
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McEwen, Rebecca. "The Sickly Female Body in Edvard Munch's The Dance of Life (1899-1900)." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/513405.
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In interpretations of The Dance of Life (1899-1900) by Edvard Munch, the femme fragile and the femme fatale have been considered jointly (i.e. as allusions to the cyclicality of life) or as individuals. Their unique characteristics have been recognized as such: whereas the femme fragile dons white to signify her prepubescent state and thus her innocence, the femme fatale wears red to suggest her sexuality and even her availability. Yet, scholars have failed to probe their iconographical complexities. Doing so would not only lend greater conviction to Munch’s historical identity as a Symbolist (as his archetypes would be recognized for their multivalence), but it would also reveal the didactic possibilities of the work of art itself. Given this void in the literature, the purpose of this thesis will be to elaborate on the formal and narrative qualities of the femme fragile and femme fatale in this painting. These archetypes ultimately allude to misogynistic anxieties, with the femme fragile in particular representing the sickly female body.
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Bose, Mandakranta. "The evolution of classical Indian dance literature : a study of the Sanskritic tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:07f89602-1892-4fa5-9d77-767a874597ef.
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The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. In the beginning of the tradition of discourse on dancing, of which the earliest extant example is the Natyasastra of Bharata Muni, dancing was regarded as a technique for adding the beauty of abstract form to dramatic performances. An ancillary to drama rather than an independent art, it carried no meaning and elicited no emotional response. Gradually, however, its autonomy was recognized as also its communicative power and it began to be discussed fully in treatises rather than in works on drama or poetics-a clear sign of its growing importance in India's cultural life. Bharata's description of the body movements in dancing and their interrelationship not only provided the taxonomy for all subsequent authors on dancing but much of the information on its actual technique. However, Bharata described only what he considered to be artistically the most cultivated of all the existing dance styles, leaving out regional and popular varieties. These styles, similar in their basic technique to Bharata's style but comprising new types of movements and methods of composition, began to be included in later studies. By the 16th century they came to occupy the central position in the accounts of contemporary dancing and coalesced into a distinct tradition that has remained essentially unchanged to the present time. Striking technical parallels relate modern styles such as Kathak and Odissi to the later tradition rather than to Bharata's. The textual evidence thus shows that dancing in India evolved by assimilating new forms and techniques and by moving away from its early dependency on drama. In the process it also widened its aesthetic scope beyond decorative grace to encompass emotive communication. Beauty of form was thus wedded to the matter of emotional content, resulting in the growth of a complex art form.
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Kosstrin, Hannah Joy. "Honest Bodies: Jewishness, Radicalism, and Modernism in Anna Sokolow's Choreography from 1927-1961." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300761075.
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Harrison, Klisala. "Victoria's First Peoples Festival, embodying Kwakw_ak_a'wakw history in presentations of music and dance in public spaces." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ56180.pdf.
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Van, Vuuren Lauren. "The Great Dance : myth, history and identity in documentary film representation of the Bushmen, 1925-2000." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22171.
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This thesis utilises a sample of major documentary films on the Bushmen of Southern Africa as primary sources in investigating change over time in the interpretation and visualisation of Bushmen peoples over seventy-five years from 1925 to 2000. The primary sources of this thesis are seven documentary films on the subject of Bushmen people in southern Africa. These films are as follows The Bushmen (1925), made by the Denver African Expedition to southern Africa; the BBC film Lost World of Kalahari (1956) by Laurens van der Post; The Hunters (1958) by John Marshall; the 1974 National Geographic Society film Bushmen of the Kalahari; John Marshall's 1980 film N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman; and the South African films People of the Great Sandface (1984) by Paul John Myburgh and The Great Dance (2000) by Craig and Damon Foster. All of these films reflect, to varying degrees, a complex interplay between generic images of Bushmen as pristine primitives and the visible evidence of many Bushmen peoples rapid decline into poverty in Southern Africa, a process which had been ongoing throughout the twentieth century. The aim of the thesis has been to explore the utilisation of film as a primary source for historical research, but focussing specifically on a subject related to the southern African historical context. The films under analysis have been critically appraised as evidence of the values and attitudes of the people and period that have produced them, and for evidence about the Bushmen at the time of filming. Furthermore, each film has been considered as a film in history, for how it influences academic or popular discourses on the Bushmen, and finally as filmic 'historiography' that communicates historical knowledge. This thesis, then, utilises a knowledge and understanding of film language, as well as the history and development of documentary film, to assess and consider the way in which knowledge is communicated through the medium of film. This study has attempted to investigate the popular and academic indictment of documentary film as progenitor and/ or reinforcing agent of crude, reified mythologies about Bushmen culture in southern Africa. It is shown here that the way major documentary films have interpreted and positioned Bushmen people reveals the degree to which documentary films are acute reflections of their historical contexts, particularly in relation to the complicated webs of discourse that define popular and academic responses to particular subjects, such as 'Bushmen', at particular historical moments. Critical, visually literate analysis of documentaries can reveal the patterns of these discourses, which in turn reflect layers of ideology that change over time. A secondary finding of this thesis has been that documentary film might constitute a source of oral history for historians, when the subjects of a documentary film express ideas and attitudes that reflect self-identity. It is proposed that the approach to analysis of documentary film that has been utilised throughout this study is a means of 'extracting' the oral testimony from its ideological positioning within the world of the film. The historian might evaluate the usefulness of a subject's oral testimony in relation to the ideological orientation of the film as a whole, to decide whether it is worthwhile being considered as das Ding an sich or should be seen purely as a reflection of values and attitudes of the filmmaker, or something in between. It is shown in this thesis that documentary film constitutes an important archive of oral testimony for historians who are properly versed in reading film language.
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Bisse, Jaqueline de Meira. "Dança e modernidade." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251794.
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Orientador: Eliana AyoubDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo : "Dança e modernidade" tem a intenção de trazer um conceito de dança moderna, buscando uma definição de suas características a partir da diferenciação entre a dança moderna e as formas precedentes de dança consideradas como belas artes: a clássica e a romântica. Apresenta elementos da técnica de importantes precursores e pioneiros da dança moderna, tecendo aproximações com os conceitos inicialmente apresentados. Pretende ainda estabelecer uma relação entre as diferentes técnicas e as diferentes possibilidades históricas e culturais de se conceber o corpo e suas expressividades. Pensa a dança como um caminho para reter e fixar os momentos revelados pela memória. Traz à tona a fratura que se opera entre o artista moderno e a época moderna. E compreende a dança também como uma política, um elemento vivo que, ao mesmo tempo, transforma e é transformado dentro dessa dinâmica.Traça observações sobre as implicações ideológicas da dança solo no século XX, buscando detectar o fio comum que liga as tensões aos projetos ideológicos do solo tanto no domínio social como, especialmente, às mulheres nesse contexto
Abstract : "Dance and modernity" intends to bring a concept of modern dance, seeking a definition of their characteristics from the differentiation between modern dance and the earlier forms of dance regarded as fine art: the classical and romantic. It presents elements of the art of important precursors and pioneers of modern dance, creating approaches to the concepts originally presented. It seeks to establish a link between the different techniques and different historical and cultural possibilities of conceiving the body and its expressive. Does the dance as a way to retain and fix the moments revealed by the memory. It brings to light the fracture which operates between the modern artist and modern times. And this includes dance also as a policy, an element that live at the same time, transforms and is transformed within this dynamics. It observes the ideological implications of dance solo in the twentieth century, seeking detect the common thread that links the tensions to the projects ideological ground both in the social field and, especially, the issue of women in that context
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Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte
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Ferraz, Fernando Marques Camargo [UNESP]. "O corpo da dança negra contemporânea: diásporas e pluralidades cênicas entre Brasil e Estados Unidos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/151241.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Este trabalho tem como objetivo examinar as dinâmicas e trânsitos existentes entre a produção da dança negra estadunidense e a produção artística das danças afro-brasileiras, tomando como eixo a produção de artistas que realizaram intercâmbios entre os dois países. Deseja-se, a partir dos estudos sobre a diáspora negra, investigar como essa atuação, em espaços e períodos específicos, pôde deixar rastros que permitam afirmar influências mútuas no cenário artístico desses países, assim como identificar as especificidades presentes nesses contatos. A partir de análise histórica e etnográfica intenta-se avaliar como esses coreógrafos abordam conceitos sobre a tradição afro descendente, agenciando elementos da cultura popular brasileira e da identidade negra em suas criações. Pretende-se averiguar como esses criadores, localizados a partir das suas formações artísticas, objetivos profissionais, vínculos institucionais, engajamentos políticos e elos identitários reinventam suas práticas coreográficas inserindo-se nos processos contemporâneos de produção de dança.
This work aims to examine the existing exchange between the production of American black dance and the artistic production of African-Brazilian dances, taking into consideration the production of artists from both countries who have been in contact. By examining the studies about the Black Diaspora in specific spaces and times, the author seeks to investigate how the exchange between Brazil and the US has left traces that enable the identification of mutual influences in the dance field of these two countries. The study also aims to identify the specificities within this intercultural contact. Using historical and ethnographic analysis, the study intends to evaluate how these choreographers approach concepts about African traditional forms by intentionally appropriating elements of the Brazilian popular culture and of black identity in their creations. In this research the author is also interested in understand how these artists have reinvented their choreographic practices by identifying themselves as makers of contemporary dance - based on their artistic background, professional goals, institutional links, political engagement and identity bonds.
FAPESP: 2013/21472-8
FAPESP: 2015/06910-4
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Berger-Di, Donato Andrea. "THE RE-BIRTH OF DANCE THROUGH THE SOUL OF TRAGEDY: ON NIETZSCHE'S BIRTH OF TRAGEDY BECOMING BODY IN THE TEXT AND DANCE OF ISADORA DUNCAN." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/48671.
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In her autobiography, Isadora Duncan recalled an assertion made by Karl Federn: "Only by Nietzsche, he said, will you come to the full revelation of dancing expression as you seek it" (Duncan 1995, 104). Duncan also told her students to read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, as if it was their "Bible" (Duncan 1928, 108). These statements justify an examination of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy as an imperative source for understanding the depth of her dance philosophy. This dissertation asks what it means to see Duncan's philosophy of dance and its practice in the context of this nineteenth-century German philosopher. It examines Nietzsche's words and ideas about the birth of tragedy and how they become body in the writings and dance of Isadora Duncan. This dissertation focuses on the philosophical idea of the "tragic idea" according to Nietzsche's and Duncan's interpretations and applications of philosophy bodied forth in dance. This tragic idea comes from an emerging idea in intellectual history initiated by followers of Kant. The idea of drawing from Greek tragedy a philosophy that could be used in philosophical thought to debate the meaning and function of art and even life was particular to German thinkers, philosophers and literati. While it drew from Greek tragic plays a philosophy, German thought on tragedy differed from the ancients in that it was applied as a philosophy for life. The ideas on Greek tragedy that Nietzsche situates his own within were developed within and against the Romantic aesthetic. The characteristics of Romantics provide context for understanding the use of tragedy as a source for thought and art. Although Nietzsche came to oppose aspects of Romanticism, his first book was in part a dialogue with German Romantic thought and aesthetics. Nietzsche's idea of tragic philosophy in his The Birth of Tragedy is examined in precedence to Duncan's use of his book. This dissertation provides an historical contextualization of the idea of a tragic philosophy to show that Duncan's choice to base her dance philosophy on Nietzsche's tragic philosophy follows this historical philosophical thread. As Nietzsche both dedicated The Birth of Tragedy to Wagner and based the book on Wagner's interpretation of Greek tragedy (Williamson 2004, 238), and Duncan wrote on and danced to Wagner, Wagner is relevant within the specific context of understanding Duncan's dance as a philosophical practice of The Birth of Tragedy. This dissertation, then, looks into Duncan's writings as a way to read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, and through these texts to interpret some aspects alive within the Romantic mood. In addition, this dissertation incorporates as part of both the literature and the analysis of Duncan's moving image, an embodied voice of personal experience from its writer, who has practiced this dance intimately. I weave my personal experience into the dissertation, using my experience in dancing within this dance form to reflect on the ideas presented here. The tragic idea as I see it within this movement drives the dancer's ideas about dance as an expressive art form. A tragic philosophy/wisdom motivates the imagination, the range of emotional expression and the physical body as it shapes and moves itself in, through and around space. A tragic sensibility represents a quality of investigation about the range of human experience that happens in and from out of the body. It comes from deep within the body's inner space and emotional and physical aliveness. It is an idea that the dancer is conscious of and actively engaged in as a process of dancing (for oneself) and making dance (as performative).
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