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Backyard activisms: Site dance, permaculture and sustainability

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Site dance performance offers creative opportunities for social and environmental activism. Conversely, social and environmental activism is becoming increasingly performative in seeking to evocatively engage a wide range of community members in both loca

Embodying latinness in Australia through dance
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Embodying latinness in Australia through dance

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Dance, as an embodied activity, is shaped by culture, and simultaneously shapes culture. Significantly, over the last few years there has been a worldwide boom in Latin dance, which is often considered an 'exotic' and 'sexy' activity. This paper explo

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Vernacular mapping: Site dance and embodied urban cartographies

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In this article I explore the potential of site-based dance and performance to influence and inform subjective, cartographic processes of connecting and situating oneself in urban locations. 'Vernacular mapping' is explored as a process by which subject

Dance

The Dance of the Serpent among the Maya

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In the Maya art of the Late Classic period we find a very singular representation, people dancing with snakes. Although its meaning is not entirely clear, it is possible to conjecture, given the symbolism of the snake, that this dance represents the contr

Music

Aspects on music, conceptuality, systemicity and education

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Two cardinal principles of the nature of music and related musicology have not yet been widely understood: (1) Music and the conceptuality of it is not the same thing, although in practise these two are considered cognitively equal. The ontic essence of m

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MAIN CONTRIBUTION OF JUANJO LINARES TO POPULAR TRADITIONAL DANCE

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The choreographic composition, as it was configured in the works of the choreographers until 1996, produced multiple problems to the traditional folk dance. One of the most important, was the devastating result generated on its essential elements, reachin

DANCE, RHYTHM, AND SOCIAL SPACE
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DANCE, RHYTHM, AND SOCIAL SPACE

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Does contemporary phenomenology envision movement in space as a displacement from a point A to a point B? Is there something more at stake in the movement of our bodies, that cannot be reduced to this type of displacement ? What happens when several bodie

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The dancing body in peace education

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This article discusses the potentials of the dancing body in peace education seen from a transrational perspective. The author explores how the multifaceted and creative body as worked with in the conscious dance and movement practice Open Floor can be ta

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The semantics of the structural elements in Tuvan dance

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The article presents an analysis of the dance gestures and the geometry of dance as ritual and ceremonial heritage of Tuvans. Dance is understood as an integral cultural phenomenon with its own rituals and ceremonial, as well as motions, posture and gestu