Essays about: "contemporary dance."

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1. 1. First blood: Menarche as the foundation for women's self-realisation

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Elena Iacovou; [2023]
   Keywords : Parthenogenesis; goddess-worshipping; religion; religious studies; rites of passage; liminality; existential health.;

   Abstract : Goddess-based civilisations worshipped the divine as a parthenogentic primordial creative force. Parthenogensis a Greek word that derives from parthenos “virgin” and genesis “from the beginning” was the path of liberation or rebirth into one’s divine nature. READ MORE

3. 2. Sustaining Movement

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Michel Barrett Denonain; [2023]
   Keywords : Dance; Sustainability; Cultural Sustainability; Skånes Dansteater;

   Abstract : This research explores the possibilities which can emerge from a potential relationship between dance and sustainability. The purpose of this research has been to investigate what discussions around the subject of sustainability are already happening within theoretical circles, dance institutions and what practical avenues are being explored for furthering efforts toward sustainability in the latter. READ MORE

4. 3. The Care And Maintenance Of Your Uncertain Movement - A Text Document About How Text Moves The Body And The Uncertainty In Reflecting Critically

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Marcella Steen; [2021-04-01]
   Keywords : Dance Art; Contemporary Dance; Dancer; Choreography; Contemporary Art; Critical Production; Institutional Critique; Site Specific; Creative Writing; Artistic Research; Movement Research; Tacit Knowledge; Subjective Perspective;

   Abstract : The Care And Maintenance Of Your Uncertain Movement explores how words formulate a dance based artistic practice and the uncertainty in the words to reflect critically. This text is about seeking where the research intrinsically is in an artistic process, as an artistic process is a collection of many things. READ MORE

5. 4. ARTivistic strategies

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Annika Britt Lewis; [2021-04-01]
   Keywords : artivism; strategies; arenas; sites; performance; theatre; dance; art; activism; devising; contemporary; performance art; physical theatre; site specific; intervention; subversive; composition; methods; multidiciplinary; manuscript; omnipresence; hydra; multi-spacial; manifest; undercover; public space; tools; choreography; performance lecture; immersive; interactive;

   Abstract : This is a reflection on contemporary performance work and it’s various strategies and methods in the interdisciplinary field of theatre, dance and performance art. Researching performative art in public space I’m posing the question; how can one develop new artistic strategies and arenas for dialog in and with our current society? By mapping my own practice and selected works, I emphasise the position of working outside of the theatre institutions and venues. READ MORE

6. 5. Spectators’ Experience of Watching Dance without Music: A cognitive semiotic exploration of kinesthetic empathy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik

   Author : Khatia Chikhladze; [2021]
   Keywords : empathy; kinesthetic empathy; qualitative kinetic dynamics; qualities of movement; vitality affects; emotional arousal; respiration; skin conductance; consciousness; phenomenology; intentionality; classical ballet; contemporary dance.; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Empathy is our ability to experience and understand the mental states of others. In movement perception, and in particular in dance spectatorship, it has been argued that we experience observed movements through our own bodies: kinesthetic empathy. READ MORE