【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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Getting synchronised in the mirror game: an exploratory study
This exploratory study aimed to disassemble interpersonal movement synchrony by looking at the different elements that comprise this kind of interaction. For this purpose, we used the mirror-game (MG)- an imitation movement technique commonly used in dram
Body Movement Manual for the Assessment and Treatment of Trauma Survivors
Trauma is manifested through the body in different ways, from arousal to freezing, or cessation of movement. Verbal expressions of traumatic experience have long been studied;however, studies of nonverbal responses are scarce. The current paper presents t
Hay que agacharse: The Embodiment of Culture in the Participant Observer Experience and the Return t
Dichotomous categories, such as the West and the rest, primitive and modern, are discussed within a phenomenological theory that suggests humans create structures through which we perceive objects. The perception of culture as an object and its constructi
African Nightclubs of Lisbon and Madrid as Spaces of Cultural Resistance
The main objective of this article involves describing how African nightclubs of Lisbon have become spaces for cultural resistance against certain representations of African-ness, taking Madrid as a contrasting case. Since the 1970s, the so-called African
DIGITAL LANGUAGE OUTSIDE THE SCREEN: THE POLITICAL POTENTIAL OF CODE EXECUTIONS IN DEMEROL BY MARIO
This text explores how digital language-specifically the execution of code-used beyond the digital can illustrate the political potential of literature. It shows how reading, like the dance of a choreography, is the execution of an aesthetic process that
Asghar Farhadi's nuanced feminism: Gender and marriage in Farhadi's films from Dancing in
Aiming to contribute towards studies of gender in Iranian cinema, this article draws on feminist and masculinities theories to examine representations of gender in the films of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, including his first Academy Award-winning fil
DANCING IN PARADISE: A PAS DE DEUX IN TWO PARTS DISCUSSION OF KAREN MARTIN'S ONCE BEGUN IS HALF
This is a beautiful paper that tells a moving and gripping story of how two people come together to create a mutually vitalizing therapeutic process. And it is a story of courage, mutually facilitated by the two protagonists: Anne's courage in relaxing h
YURI SLONIMSKY. LIBRETTOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF IDEOLOGY: DRAMATIC EXPERIENCE
Yuri Iosifovich Slonimsky (1902-1978) is a unique personality in the history of Russian and Soviet ballet. He was a ballet scholar, a playwrighter, a screenwriter and a teacher. At the age of 18 he became a passionate promoter of the dance art, collaborat
Some Thoughts on the Mechanical Features of Pantomime Dancers
This paper aims to investigate the kinaesthetic experience of dance, and especially of pantomime dance in Lucian's De Saltatione and in Libanius' oration 64, A Reply To Aristides On Behalf Of The Dancers, from the perspective of the mechanical. Specific
Decolonising moves: gestures of reciprocity as feminist intercultural performance
In this article, I think through decolonisation from the place of praxis and cultural artistic exchange in Global South-South encounters. I base my thinking on the concepts of 'neighbouring' by the Argentine theorist, [Savigliano, M. 2009. Worlding Danc
Dance Like No One's Watching: the Influence of Demand Characteristics When Examining Lineups vi
Lineup administrators may inadvertently bias an eyewitness' identification; as such, the blind-lineup administration is recommended to combat this bias. Three studies examined eyewitness identification accuracy when the lineup is presented on a computer
Deconstructing Fosse
This article discusses 'Paramodernities #5: All That Spectacle: Dance on Stage and Screens', the instalment of Netta Yerushalmy's Paramodernities series focusing on Bob Fosse's film version of Sweet Charity (1969). Paramodernities was a 2018 series of
Aesthetic education revised: a contribution to mobile learning in physical education
The purpose of this study was to empirically capture the sociocultural practices of young people who have used mobile digital technologies in physical education lessons. The focus was on dance, including the process- and product-relevant aesthetic teachin
Embodying the Couple Relationship: Kinesthetic Empathy and Somatic Mirroring in Couples Therapy
Kinesthetic sensitivity plays a central role in the development of empathy and in understanding others' intentions, skills that greatly affect spousal satisfaction. The present study examines how, in the couple relationship, somatic mirroring of the othe
Folklore's Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu
The folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and 'fake lore', one being authentic and the