【Dance】Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re... [more]
【Dance】Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati... [more]
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Allergies, allegiances and authenticity: Bill T. Jones's choreography for Broadway
The critical reception of Bill T. Jones's choreography for the Broadway stage reinvigorates debates about high and low cultural production and reveals persistent critical biases regarding the requirement of authenticity for non-white artists. Jones's ge
Walking in circles: Dancing with shadows - Choreo-cartography as a strategy to explore and embody ep
How might strategies of choreographic embodiment generate cartographies of a 'shadow city'? How might the deconstruction and exploration of memory reveal that which can no longer be seen? This article explores specific elements of a site-responsive PaR
... a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun ... A Brief Non-Academic Reflection on Riverdance, a
A long chorus of native, diasporic and elective Irish danced along the embankment of the River Liffey in Dublin in July 2013 as a very modern bid to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest ever Riverdance line; a form of contemporary re
Dancing with Sainte Foy. Movement and the Iconic Presence
An exceptional work of early medieval art, the reliquary of Sainte Foy in Conques is the perfect object for understanding the notion of iconic presence around the year 1000. Bernard of Angers wrote his well-known Liber miraculorum to promote the cult of t
Learning to love math through the exploration of maypole patterns
In this paper, Prof. Christine von Renesse and Julianna Campbell show how seeing maypole dancing through a mathematical lens can excite liberal arts students to deeply explore mathematics. After describing the general class set-up and pedagogy, Julianna t
SKATING TOWARD AMERICANIZATION The Evolution of Katarina Witt throughout the 1980s
At the 1987 World Figure Skating Championship, Katarina Witt skated to instrumental music from West Side Story playing the role of Maria. But how could her performance to Broadway show tunes be in line with SED ideology? Through histoire croisee- establis
The Representation of Bangladeshi Migrants in Transit and the Question of Cultural Difference: A Cri
Migration can be conceived as one of the strongest and remarkable signifiers in order to describe the distinguishing features of human beings in the present scenario. With the rapid increase in industrialisation and urbanisation, thousands and thousands o
Acupuncture for 14 cases of Meige's syndrome II
Objective: To observe the clinical efficacy of acupuncture for Meige's syndrome II. Methods: Fourteen patients of Meige's syndrome II were treated with acupuncture. The acupoints included bilateral Taichong ((sic)LR3), Sanyinjiao ((sic)SP6), Taixi((sic)
Bearing the flesh and fleshing out the body, The use of drapery in Loie Fuller's and Ola Maciej
What is the cause of body movement? Is it only physical? Is it pure will? In her performances, Ola Maciejewska slightly shifts the terms of these questions which particularly concern contemporary living arts. By adapting the use of a specific accessory -
The mental health of musical theatre students in tertiary education: A pilot study
This article seeks to illuminate questions of mental health in tertiary-level musical theatre training. Professional performing artists, students of singing, dance and acting, as well as undergraduate university students are all at greater risk of mental
Negotiating Public Participation through Dance and Drama Techniques: A Roundtable Discussion on the
The Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit (IAHU) of Rhodes University History Department specializes in innovative methodologies for bringing historical information closer to non-academic audiences. The National Research Foundation of South Africa funds the re
Gender, caste, and feminist praxis in transnational South India
In the past 70 years, certain kinds of Indian dance have been read as classical or aspirational, especially when performed by or associated with Hindu/high-caste people and in cosmopolitan spaces like Chennai or San Francisco. Inversely, certain dancers a
Turns of 'fate': Jack Cole, jazz and Bharata Natyam in diasporic translation
The musical Kismet opened on Broadway in 1953. This commercially successful play, translated into a film version released two years later, included some of Jack Cole's most widely viewed and popular choreography, which resulted in the exposure of Bharata
Dancing to the Stars The Poetics of the Child and Redemptive Imagination in J. M. Coetzee's The
J. M. Coetzee's 2016 novel The Schooldays of Jesus has since its publication stirred up quite a controversy for its minimalist style and the far too arcane theme, with some going so far as to disparage it as an unimportant bore. Building upon the signs o
THE POLISH-JEWISH LETHAL POLKA DANCE
Aim. This paper analyses the inherent paradoxes of Jewish-Polish relations. It portrays the main beliefs that construct the contradicting narratives of the Holocaust, trying to weigh which of them is closer to the historic truth. It seeks for an answer to