【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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The BBC Young Dancer and the decolonising imagination
The process of decolonisation requires a radical re-imagination of how we construct our identities - one that steps away from fictions of independence and essentialism to acknowledge the complex webs of dialogue and interdependence. It requires a self-con
The Dance of the Spirits Beyond Wounded Knee: A meaningful historical episode of the expression of t
The Ghost Dance is a millenarian Indian movement which spread in 1889 and 1890 through the great plains of the United Sates and whose prophet, Wovoka, announced the advent of a new golden age of Indian nations. This protest is commonly remembered in relat
INVITATION TO THE DANCE: INTERMEDIAL ALLUSIONS IN T. S. ELIOT'S EARLY POETRY (THE DEATH OF SAIN
The paper Invitation to the Dance: Intermedial Allusions in T. S. Eliot's Early Poetry ('The Death of Saint Narcissus', 'Suppressed Complex') deals with some aspects of the early works by T. S. Eliot. The author examines relationships between dance,
FITNESS DANCE FOR DEVELOPING BASIC MOVEMENT QUALITIES IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND IMPROVING THEIR PSYC
Aim. The article deals with developing a set of fitness dance exercises to improve basic movement qualities and psychic status in preschool children. Materials and methods. We studied two equal groups of apparently healthy children aged 5-6. All children
BALLETVALEMAS: REINFORCEMENT FOR THE REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL MOTOR NEEDS TROUGH THE
An inclusive society is based on the development of the rights humans that promote social justice and equality of opportunities.Then, why children and teenagers with motor difficulties,pain, or with any special needs cannot practise a sport or an artistic
Sustainability of the Independent and University Folklore Dancing Groups in the City of Medellin
Sustainability is one of the most critical topics for the Colombian cultural sector, not only because of the complexity derived from the nature of the creative products but also for the conditions of possibility in which the different artistic expressions
Impact of the use of audiovisual materials for the learning of traditional dances in the training of
The purpose of this article is to get to know the impact the use of audiovisual materials has for the learning of traditional dances in the initial training of future teachers of primary education. For this reason, teachers from different fields (didactic
Correlation between vestibular and spatial system in vertical dance performance
The aim of this study is to evaluate how the vestibular response intervenes in the adaptation of the body in a different support plan than the usual one (walls). Method The experimental group (EG) was 10 subjects (M=30,8; SD=+/- 10.00). For each test time
BETWEEN THE AID AND THE OVERTHROW: NEGOTIATIONS AND DISPUTES AROUND THE BATUQUES AND THE NATIVE DANC
During the first half of the twentieth century, the colonial Portuguese regime unified different musical and dance practices of the populations from the south of Mozambique inside the word batuque. On the one hand, the article intends to analyze the proce
Resonances and murmurings in the playing of the dance: the difer(a)ncia of the body in its excrito s
To touch does not necessarily imply the tactile contact of the bodies, but rather it is a direct touch to the interior of the body, to being sensitive, from the soul. The body in its sensitivity touches with its existence the dance and the movement that t
Camels, Temples, and Jewels: Representing Middle Eastern Movement in Canadian English
The English-language nomenclature that is used to designate belly dance movement is a vital site for the expression of ideas, fantasies, and fears about the Middle East and North Africa, the homelands of this dance genre. Belly dance has no classical trad
About how educational dance course may be crucial in school age children's psycho-motor develop
Numerous studies have shown that children- aged between 5 to12 are able to develop artistic-sporting motor skills, which can be attributed in particular to general coordination and balance. They may be indicators of psychomotor development (Le Boulch, 199
Effect of Dance Aerobic Programs on Intrinsic Motivation and Perceived Task Climate in Secondary Sch
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a dance aerobic intervention program on intrinsic motivation and perceived motivation climate in 7th grade middle school students. The sample of the study consisted of 160 healthy students, of
Effect of dance on lower-limb range of motion in young people with cerebral palsy: a blinded randomi
Purpose: One of the most limiting conditions in cerebral palsy (CP) is the impairment in musculoskeletal mobility. CP may impair the ability to perform efficient movements. The aim of this trial was to investigate the effect of dance on the range of motio
Reading gesture: Katherine Dunham, the Dunham Technique, and the vocabulary of dance as decolonizing
This paper examines how the African diasporic dance works of anthropologist, dancer, and choreographer Katherine Dunham has endured over time through both archival intervention and through Dunham's dance pedagogy, the Dunham Technique. Interrogating the