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Owen, Craig. "Dancing gender : exploring embodied masculinities." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636536.
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Within popular culture we have recently witnessed a proliferation of male dancers. This has been spear-headed by the success of the BBC television program Strictly Come Dancing. The current cultural fascination with dance provides a stark contrast to traditional discourses in England that position dance as a female activity, with men’s participation frequently associated with homophobic stigma. We therefore have a context in which multiple and contradictory discourses on masculinity are available for men to make sense of themselves. This thesis explores how young men negotiate these discourses when learning to dance. The research is based upon an ethnographic study of capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance classes in South West England. The core methods included 1) four years of embodied fieldwork in the form of the researcher learning to dance, 2) writing field-notes and collecting multi-media artefacts, 3) interviewing dancers, and 4) photographing dancers in action. The researcher also drew upon a diverse range of subsidiary methods that included producing a dance wall of collected images and artefacts, cataloguing relevant dance websites and YouTube videos, and extensive use of Facebook for publishing photographs, sharing resources and negotiating ongoing informed consent. The findings of this PhD identify how learning capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance produces embodied, visual and discursive transitions in male dancers’ performances of masculine identities. The analysis focuses on three sets of practices that work to support or problematise the transitions in masculine identities in dance classes. These practices include 1) dancing with women in ballroom dancing, 2) performing awesome moves in capoeira, and 3) men’s experiences of stiff hips. In examining transitions across these three processes the thesis documents the changing possibilities and constraints on embodied masculinities in dance.
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DeLater, James Huet Pierre-Daniel Huet Pierre-Daniel. "The 1683 De optimo genere interpretandi (On the best kind of translating) of Pierre-Daniel Huet : introduction, English translation, notes, and commentaries /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9439.
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Boldrin, Beatrice. "La danse orientale entre stéréotypes et symboles : enjeux de "féminités contemporaines"." Thesis, Paris 5, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA05H018.
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Dans cette étude, nous analysons les évolutions des modèles contemporains de féminité dans le cadre des débats sur l’identité de genre à travers l’étude de la danse orientale. Nous envisageons la danse orientale à la fois comme un terrain de confrontation, de partage et d’hybridation de différentes conceptions et vécus du corps et comme une possibilité d’exploration empirique et conceptuelle de différentes identités de genre, culturelles et esthétiques. Ce sujet d’étude nous permet de réfléchir sur l’imaginaire du ventre féminin comme symbole genré, depuis les Orientalistes jusqu’à la pratique d’aujourd’hui dans les cours de danse parisiens. Le corps dansant et ses ressentis ont été traités comme les moyens expressifs à partir desquels structurer notre réflexion incarnée sur le féminin. Une enquête de terrain dans le milieu des cours de danse parisiens actuels nous a permis d’analyser les formes de partage culturel qui s’y produisent. Cela a mis en lumière les changements que la pratique de cette danse produit dans les relations des femmes à leur intimité physique et sexuée et les influences occidentales des hybridations multiples de cette danse avec d’autres styles de danse. Dans le milieu de cours de danse orientale, les femmes qui la pratiquent sont amenées à expérimenter dans des espaces clos et exclusivement féminins la stratification de conceptions traditionnelles du corps et de différents systèmes philosophiques et esthétiques. La danse orientale modifie-t-elle donc en Occident les catégories et les formes du corps désirable ? Qu’est-ce que les femmes recherchent dans cette pratique aujourd’hui ?This study traces the evolution of contemporary models of femininity in virtue of the mindset and self-perception of contemporary French women. My work focuses on the practice of oriental dance with respect to the question of gender identity. I intend to look at oriental dance as the catalyst of cultural confrontation and hybridization of Eastern and Western concepts of the body. Because this dance is primarily designed for women, I consider it an empirical vehicle for exploring issues of gender identity (notions of what is female, feminine, and femininity) through the investigation of the belly and the pelvis. Incorporating a qualitative survey among women practicing oriental dance today in Paris, my work seeks to understand how this dance influences the relationship a women has with her body and intimate self as well as how the Western outlook has altered and influenced oriental dance. What do contemporary dancing bodies in Paris share between themselves in the practice of this dance? How does oriental dance influence or become altered by the predominant dance forms in French culture? How do these different aesthetic concepts of the female body influence each other through Oriental dance, and how does this dance form modify the idea of what is the desirable female body? What are women searching for through the practice of Oriental dance today?
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Guillen, Marissa E. "The Performance of Tango: Gender, Power and Role Playing." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1213208506.
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Hollander, Jocelyn A. "Discourses of danger : the construction of gender through talk about violence /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8887.
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Whitehead, Anne. "Trauma, gender and performance : theorizing the body of the survivor." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/865.
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My thesis emerges out of the new disciplines of trauma studies and gender theory, both of which explore the coming into being of the subject. The traumatic event is that which overwhelms the subject and cannot be integrated into a sense of self Gender theory explores the ways in which woman is positioned as object in the patriarchal culture, and so cannot fully experience herself as subject. Both disciplines have mobilized narrative as a goal - narrative depends upon the adoption of a position as subject. I aim to theorize the body of the survivor of trauma and to explore the means by which the traumatic symptom might be transformed into narrative. Post-1980 psychiatrists have linked the traumatic symptom to the work of Pierre Janet (1859- 1947) on hysteria. Janet regarded the body as inseparable from consciousness and was concerned with the ways in which the whole organism engaged in the performance of activity. Janet's writing stood at the beginning of a tradition of thought on the 'body image', in which the performance of activity on a psycho-physical level was regarded as the basis of subjectivity. I am interested in mobilizing this theoretical framework as a therapeutic strategy for trauma. Through bodily movement, elements of narrative are explored - temporal sequence and flow, occupying new positions or perspectives - as a means of approach to a more integrated sense of self I also propose to conceptualize the gendering of the subject as a mode of somatic performance. The transformative potential of physical movement provides a means by which the objectified body, which is positioned outside of its own intentionality, can explore the possibility of occupying new positions as a subject.
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Shriver-Rice, Meryl. "Inclusion in New Danish Cinema: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Belonging." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/598.
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By examining the recent work by Danish writer-directors of both Dogme and New Danish Cinema from 1998 onward, this study pinpoints examples of film analysis that articulate the shared ethical themes of New Danish Cinema. These themes include Danish citizenship and identity, the reduction of family risk, negotiating prejudice and inclusion through desire, humility and empathy, and transnational belonging during a time of rising globalization. A number of the realistic fiction films of New Danish Cinema reflect Denmark’s preceding anti-Hollywood film movement dubbed Dogme 95. This movement first provided the political push for ethically valuable film making in a “realistic” aesthetic. Egalitarian in substance, and also in production, Denmark has a similar number of recently successful female writer-directors as male writer-directors. Known as a largely homogenized country with a recent rise in immigrants, Denmark has demonstrated that it is possible for film to be used as a vehicle to reinforce cultural ethics and political values while also navigating through the ongoing and mounting forces of digital communication and globalization.
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Chénetier, Marion. "L'oralité dans le théâtre contemporain : Herbert Achternbusch, Pierre Guyotat, Valère Novarina, Jon Fosse, Daniel Danis, Sarah Kane." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030030.
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Quand la scène se vide de ses personnages, quand la fiction ne soutient plus l'action dramatique, que reste-t-il au théâtre ? L'oralité. Une parole qui déplace le drame pour le situer au cœur du langage et faire des lecteurs les acteurs du texte. Étudier les manifestations de l'oralité à travers six œuvres contemporaines - celles de H. Achternbusch, de P. Guyotat, de V. Novarina, de J. Fosse, de D. Danis et de S. Kane - c'est montrer comment un mode d'énonciation spécifique s'encode dans une écriture et se transmet au lecteur. Définie par ce qui demeure du corps dans la langue quand la voix s'en absente, l'oralité rehausse la dimension sonore et rythmique de l'écriture. Elle donne ainsi à la matérialité de la langue un rôle décisif dans la constitution du sens, et renoue avec la physique de la parole. Bouleversant les codes linguistiques, elle travaille aux frontières du langage et se sert de celui-ci pour sonder l'inconnu. Par elle, le théâtre est appelé à être un lieu où l'expérience redevient possible. Située à la croisée de la stylistique, de la linguistique, de la poétique et de l'esthétique, l'oralité invite aussi à repenser les catégories fondatrices du théâtre. Elle modifie d'autre part les termes du vieux débat entre textocentristes et scénocentristes : l'oralité ne conditionne pas l'oralisation des textes, même si elle peut à l'occasion la programmer. Notion transversale, l'oralité interroge enfin la théâtralité même de la parole dans les divers genres littérairesAs soon as characters have moved away from the stage, when fiction no longer sustains dramatic action, what remains of the theatre ? Orality : an utterance that displaces drama to nest it at the heart of language and transforms readers into actors of the text. Studying the written manifestations of orality through the works of six contemporaries -H. Achternbusch, P. Guyotat, V. Novarina, J. Fosse, D. Danis and S. Kane- amounts to showing how a specific enunciative mode gets encoded in the writing and is transmitted to the reader in order to make of the theatre the locus wherein physical speech can be rediscovered. Defined as what remains of the body in language when voice has deserted it, orality enhances the dimensions of sound and rhythm in writing. It thus entrusts the materiality of language with a decisive role in the constitution of meaning. Unsettling linguistic codes, orality works on the edges of language, uses it to sound the unknown ; it is the means whereby the theatre may become the site where experience again becomes possible. At the crossroads of stylistics, linguistics, poetics and esthetics, orality is an invitation to rethink the founding categories of the theatre. It also modifies the terms of the old debate in which text and staging vied for preeminence : orality is not the condition for the oral rendering of texts, even if it occasionnally programs it. As a transversal notion, orality questions the very theatricality of speech in various literary genres
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Härtwig, Daniel [Verfasser], and Jens [Akademischer Betreuer] Werner. "Die Rolle von LGR6 in der Genese des humanen duktalen Pankreaskarzinoms (PDAC) / Daniel Härtwig ; Betreuer: Jens Werner." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1193924227/34.
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Mueller, Gavin. ""Straight up Detroit shit" genre, authenticity, and appropriation in Detroit ghettotech /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182534766.
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Carter, Simon. "Risk, masculinity and modernity : understandings of gender and danger in the modern period." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362625.
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McDonald, Caitlin. "Belly dance and glocalisation : constructing gender in Egypt and on the global stage." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/119585.
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This thesis is an ethnography of the global belly dance community with particular reference to the transmission of dance paradigms from Cairo to the international dance community. Key words describing my topic include dance, gender, performance, group dynamics, social norms and resistance, public vs. private, tourism, and globalisation. I hypothesize that social dancing is used in many parts of the world as a space outside ordinary life in which to demonstrate compliance with or to challenge prevailing social paradigms. The examination of dance as a globalised unit of cultural capital is an emerging field. With this in mind I investigate the way this dance is employed in professional, semi-professional, and non-professional settings in Egypt and in other parts of the world, notably North America and Europe. Techniques included interviewing members of the international dance community who engage in dance tourism, travelling from their homes to Egypt or other destinations in order to take dance classes, get costumes, or in other ways seek to have an 'authentic' dance experience. I also explored connections dancers fostered with other members of the dance community both locally and in geographically distant locations by using online blogs, websites, listservs and social networking sites. I conducted the first part of my fieldwork in Cairo following this with fieldwork in belly dance communities in the United States and Britain.
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Derambure, Angélique. "L'image et son empreinte dans les mises en scène de Daniel Benoin : Itinéraire et processus de création de la Comédie de Saint-Étienne au Théâtre National de Nice (1975-2010)." Thesis, Nice, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014NICE2018.
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Metteur en scène contemporain dont l’itinéraire personnel est une conséquence de la décentralisation théâtrale, Daniel Benoin tire sa force de création du passage de l’image mentale à sa concrétisation dans le spectacle vivant par l’hybridation de savoirs multiples et de techniques artistiques. Cette étude d’un destin particulier dans un rapport holiste avec l’art dramatique permet une théorisation du processus de création dans lequel un regard croisé entre phénoménologie et pragmatique confirme l’hypothèse d’une empreinte matérielle et stylistique. L’approche comparative d’un grand nombre de représentations et de l’ensemble des répétitions préalables à cinq spectacles (Wozzeck, La Cantatrice chauve, Faces, la reprise de La Cantatrice chauve, Le roman d’un trader) définira cette empreinte comme idiosyncrasique, formelle et originale, le tout commun à l’ensemble de l’œuvre observée. Ainsi, grâce aux concours de pré-images modulables et fécondes, les images mentales primordiales s’installent au cœur de la création et la vision onirique se révèle être l’essence même de la particularité artistique de ce metteur en scène. La recherche entreprise ouvre alors des perspectives renouvelées quant à l’esthétique et à la présence/absence de l’artiste dans des domaines élargis (cinéma, danse, peinture, photographie, musique, écriture)Daniel Benoin, a contemporary stage director whose personal career was a consequence of theatrical decentralization, draws his creative strength from his ability to make mental images become concrete in live shows by using numerous knowledge and artistic techniques in a hybrid way. This project on a distinctive destiny in a holist connexion with Drama enables to theorize about the creation process in which a crossed look at phenomenology and pragmatism confirms the hypothesis of a material and stylistic imprint. The comparative approach of many performances and of all the preliminary rehearsals to five theatrical shows (Wozzeck, La Cantatrice chauve, Faces, the remake of La Cantatrice chauve, Le roman d'un trader) will eventually define this mark as an idiosyncratic, formal and original one, to be found in the whole work which was studied. Thus, thanks to the help of fertile and adjustable pre-images, essential mental images settle in the heart of creation and the oneiric vision turns out to be the very essence of the artistic particularity of this stage director. Therefore the research opens up renewed angles about the aesthetics and the presence/absence of the artist in enlarged fields (such as cinema, dancing, painting, photography, music, writing)
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Hersant, Céline. "Recyclage et fabrique continue du texte : Valère Novarina, Noëlle Renaude, Daniel Lemahieu." Paris 3, 2006. https://janus.bis-sorbonne.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3619-2.
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L’ensemble de ces études propose de démêler l’écheveau de trois œuvres théâtrales contemporaines s’attachant notamment à mettre en scène le geste d’écriture et les conditions de production du texte au sein de la fiction théâtrale. En prenant la forme de petites enquêtes et de parcours parfois incertains dans les œuvres, ces études tentent de cerner les imageries développées par chaque auteur et plus particulièrement les métaphores se rapportant aux techniques de la couture. L’investigation porte donc sur le travail de reprisage ou de tramage intertextuel qui anime ces trois œuvres, mais cherche aussi à interroger un modus operandi, c’est-à-dire les procédures et les techniques d’écriture élaborées par chacun pour construire des systèmes signifiants. L’essentiel de cette démarche consiste à trouver la bonne posture et la bonne distance de lecture quand l’œuvre semble échapper à toute linéarité. L’approche des textes de Valère Novarina, Noëlle Renaude et Daniel Lemahieu tend en effet à devenir un véritable jeu d’orientation : comment naviguer dans les strates textuelles ou les multiples ramifications offertes par de micro-variations ; où trouver des repères dans un espace dramatique confondant sans cesse, avec le jeu typographique, le cadre et le hors-cadre ; comment dresser la carte d’une œuvre sans solution de continuité ? En cherchant ainsi le mode d’emploi du texte, le lecteur, devenu peut-être malgré lui rhapsode, assume finalement, aux côtés de l’auteur, le rôle de monteur. À lui de recomposer une unité dissoute sous la pression d’assemblages fragmentaires et de recoudre un texte souvent livré en lambeauxThis series of analyses attempts to unravel the complex bundles of textual threads woven through the works of three contemporary dramatists. It exposes the self-conscious act of writing and the conditions of textual production that create the theatrical fiction of the three authors. The thesis takes the shape of brief investigations that at times follow unpredictable routes through the texts. They highlight the imagery used by each author, in particular, metaphors referring to techniques of dressmaking, and they demonstrate the processes of intertextual stitching, mending and weaving that construct these three oeuvres. Moreover, they seek to uncover the text’s modus operandi, namely the writing processes and techniques elaborated by each writer to construct systems of meaning. The intention of this approach is to find an appropriate position and distance from which to read the dramatic texts, since they appear to evade linearity. Indeed, reading texts by Valère Novarina, Noëlle Renaude and Daniel Lemahieu involves a veritable exercise in orienteering: how does the reader navigate through the textual strata and multiple ramifications offered by the text’s infinitesimal variations in style and meaning ; where are the reader’s reference points on a page of text where the author seems to zoom cinematically in and out by altering typography and page layout ? By seeking a direction through the text, the reader must necessarily assume the role, with the author, of co-creator. The text requires the reader to construct a dissipated unity from the textual fragments, and to re-stitch a text that is often presented in tatters by the author
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Ha, Steven Kyung-Gyoon. "Classicism and Romanticism in Three Ballets by Frederick Ashton." The Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1607420030830412.
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Walmsley, Walmsley. "Masculinity and Dance : Male Dancers, Gender and Society in Stockholm, Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185745.
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This thesis examines the conditions for professional and aspiring professional male theatre dancers across two separate field sites in Stockholm, Sweden. By analysing these conditions I aim to discuss how hegemonic masculine social norms inform and affect the lives of these male dancers and the consequences of those norms for the wider male population. Through interview, unobtrusive observation and dance participation I will scrutinise the male experience of dance work and training in order to understand the lives of professional male dancers and their perception of themselves and their work, as part of a very small minority of men in Swedish society. Through a comparative analysis of dance and sport, I suggest that the stark gender imbalance in dance work and training is indicative of a larger pattern of hegemonic masculine social norms that stymie male social development and undermine wider societal efforts towards gender equality.
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Hart, Alison. "Queering choreographic conventions| Concert dance as a site for engaging in gender and sexual identity politics." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527949.
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Three dances, On This Day, Panties and Pathologies , and Naked Spotlight Silver were choreographed and performed in fulfillment of the requirements to complete an M.F.A. degree in dance. The performances took place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater located on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. On This Day premiered October 2012, Panties and Pathologies premiered March 2013, and Naked Spotlight Silver premiered October 2013.
This thesis examines how each project investigates choreographic approaches used in concert dance to communicate issues of gender and sexuality as well as participate in a discourse on identity politics. The three dance pieces attempted to confront themes of marriage equality, representation and the marketing of femininity, and queer identity representations in performance. Each piece was unique in its methodologies and served as an explorative approach to political communication and artistic development.
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Aramphongphan, Paisid. "Inefficient Moves: Art, Dance, and Queer Bodies in the 1960s." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467507.
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This dissertation examines the intersection of art, dance, and queer sociality though Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, and their lesser-known contemporary, Fred Herko, a dancer and choreographer. Traversing art history, dance studies, and queer theory, this study uses analyses of movement, gestures, and embodiment as a bridge between the artistic and the social. In film, photography, and dance, these artists not only made art as queer artists, but their work stemmed from the form of sociality of their communities—the social and creative labor spent on seemingly unproductive ends, such as lounging together on a sofa, posing in performative-social studio sessions, or dancing in an improvised performance-party. Gestures and embodied experience became both the site of the art, and the site of the production of queer subjectivity in this watershed decade for art and queer histories. To unpack their cultural significance, I draw on the work of anthropologist Marcel Mauss on “techniques of the body,” and recent scholarship on embodiment and subjectivity. I propose queer gestures as dances of “inefficiency” in the Maussian sense, that is, as techniques of the body that do not confirm or sustain the social scripts of somatic norms. Given the contemporaneous debates about work, leisure, and alienation in the 1960s, inefficient techniques—as represented in the recurrent motif of the recumbent, languorous male body, for example—can also be read as a critique of industrial efficiency and heteronormative definitions of (re)productivity. Through this focus on bodily techniques, I open up a dialogue between this “underground” body of work with contemporaneous artistic milieus in which the body played an important role, including in 1960s sculpture, proto-feminist practices, postmodern dance, photography, and experimental theater.
Throughout I also foreground the intertwinement of dance culture and queer culture. Drawing on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s reading of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, this study interprets artistic practices through a reparative lens, drawing together a queer repertoire made up of inefficient moves—just as the artists’ engagements with, and making of, dance culture and queer culture were reparative: an accretive practice of assemblage for imaginative and embodied sustenance.History of Art and Architecture
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Kallur, Martin. "Queer Love in Social Media Marketing : A Case Study of Same-Sex Couple Representations in Watch Brand Daniel Wellington’s Social Media Channels." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152000.
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On Valentine’s day 2018, Swedish watchmaker Daniel Wellington posted a photo of a gay male couple followed by a caption celebrating the love between the two subjects. The photo was posted to the brand’s Instagram account reaching an audience of four million followers. The brand’s followers responded with great amounts of engagement ranging from excitement and support for featuring a same-sex couple, to almost equal amounts homophobic disapproval. This thesis, a case study of Daniel Wellington’s social media and social media staff, examines the effects of including same-sex couples in social media marketing. Previous research on LGBTQ+ representation in advertising has identified the polarizing reactions same-sex couples in marketing usually evoke. Using existing literature on the subject as a theoretical framework, this thesis analyzes the effects of including two photos of same-sex couples, one male-male couple and one female-female couple, in Daniel Wellington’s Instagram account. A statistical analysis of the reactions to these photos on Instagram will be followed by interviews with the brand’s social media staff in order to explore the corporate response to the reactions to the social media representations of same-sex couples. This thesis will suggest, partially in line with previous research, that the social media content featuring same-sex couples created a lot of engagement among its followers, with comparatively high levels of polarization. The data identified a significant difference between how the gay male couple and the same-sex female couple were evaluated. Additionally, the interviews with the social media staff suggest that, despite the high levels of negative reactions, including same-sex couples in their social media channels did not have a deterring effect on their commitment to include more types of diversity in the brand’s social media feeds. The interviews with the social media staff indicate that the experience of including same-sex couples in the brand’s social media marketing efforts had the effect of raising awareness of issues of homophobia among the staff members.
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McLaren, Mary Gugu Tizita. "Dancing with dangerous desires : the performance of femininity and experiences of pleasure and danger by young black women within club spaces." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14628.
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Includes bibliographical references (150-157).This research was carried out in Langa Township, Cape Town and worked with 7 young black women, between the ages of 19 and 26 years old. The aim was to explore the fluidity of identity, in particular gender identity, by exploring the performance of 'normative' femininity and 'hidden/subversive' femininity performed in different spaces. The focus was on 'hidden/subversive' femininity and the experiences of pleasure and danger in clubs spaces in Cape Town. It was found that these experiences centre on appearance, use of alcohol and dancing and expose the way in which young women negotiate between the pleasurable and dangerous that, consciously or unconsciously, push the boundaries of entrenched gender norms. In addition, owing 10 the nature of the research, constructions of masculinity were also explored and discovered to have a profound impact on young women's experiences within club spaces and in their everyday lives, relating to sexual relationships. This study aims to reveal the power and agency of young women, as well as the struggles and restrictions.
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Morrissey, Sean Afnán. "Dancing around masculinity? : young men negotiating risk in the context of dance education /." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59614.
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Pettyjohn, Celine Lyn Doherty. "Swingers masculinities and male sexualities in ballroom dance /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1446434.
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Rosler, Julia. "Acting the part : gender and performance in contemporary plays by women." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2399.
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Acknowledging performance as a process through which gender identities are constituted, the thesis explores attempts in women's theatre to subject these very constructs to creative deconstruction. It offers a study of plays by Caryl Churchill, Sarah Daniels and Timberlake Wertenbaker. Setting their work in the context of prevailing discourses of representation, the analysis delineates the ways in which plays by women interrogate the Western tradition of meaning and perception. The thesis proposes theatrical performance as a strategic engagement with the very means by which women's position is constituted. Therefore, it argues that in women's dramatic work, the possibility of resistance, of agency and choice occurs in the playful adaptation of dominant discourse, allowing for new figurations of subjectivity. Exploring the difficulties and limitations involved in this strategy, the study evaluates how plays by women release a potential for transgression which dislocates the structures of representation.
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Mokrzycki, Bartosz Paul. "Stranger danger: the politics of child safety in the age of Reagan." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6255.
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This dissertation centers on a perceived child safety crisis in the late twentieth century U.S. It charts the emergence of specific cultural anxieties regarding American childhood and the development of new mechanisms designed to safeguard young Americans from “moral threats” such as stranger abduction, exploitation, and pornography. “Stranger Danger” shows that the politics of child safety coincided with Reagan-era efforts to snip the social safety net, promote law and order, lionize the business sector, and shore up the “traditional” family. The study argues that, as the New Deal order crumbled in the late twentieth century, so too did the state’s commitment to shielding American youths from structural problems such as hunger and poverty. Measures focused on child safety arose as social welfare programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children, school lunch and child nutrition initiatives, and the Comprehensive Education and Training Act fell by the wayside. The shift from provision to protection that “Stranger Danger” takes as its central focus relied upon the development of a child safety apparatus, a collection of legal-cultural mechanisms that have exaggerated the prevalence of moral threats to American children, especially those perpetrated by strangers. Launched by activists and the bereaved parents of slain children, and eventually sanctioned by the Reagan administration, the 1980s child safety campaign authored an array of new instruments intended to protect young Americans from kidnapping, molestation, murder, exploitation, and corruption.
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van, Dobben Danielle J. "Dancing Modernity: Gender, Sexuality and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193284.
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Early Ottoman dance practices that took place in gender segregated spaces andallowed for a certain degree of sexual explicitness and expressions of homoerotic desirewere disavowed among Turkish elites in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "Bellydance" became associated with non-Turkish performers, while the Tanzimat and YoungTurk state employed the theater to perform emerging ideas about 'Turkishness' and the'New Woman.' In the early Turkish Republic, the new cadre of Kemalist militaryofficers and bureaucrats altogether rejected its Ottoman heritage and danced the waltz ina close embrace to the music of Western orchestras.This thesis charts significant changes in dance practices between the late OttomanEmpire and early Turkish Republic in order to examine the articulation of modern viewsof gender and sexuality. Dance played a formative role in shaping Turkish modernityand framed moral issues about gender, sexuality, and public space, reflecting andreshaping social life at the same time.
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Demenkoff, John Haynes. "Evolution and emergence of the masculinities| Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626049.
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To say that the masculinities are woven into the fabric of a pre-existing culture is not enough. One must go further and explore how culture itself is constituted by, or more precisely, constituted through the masculinities. As William Doty notes in his Myths of Masculinity (1993), culture not only produces but also is produced by stories. Ancient legends and sagas, like myths, are, to a large degree, perpetuated by the modern male dancer and athlete. However, as contemporary iterations of the masculinities, male athletes and dancers have evolved beyond the scope of myths and into new cultural forms. Their emergent story threads through this dissertation.
The masculinities represent a diverse array of possibilities and pluralities. What, then, holds them together as a coherent cultural force? This dissertation is, in large part, devoted to answering that question by way of a perspicuous inquiry conducted into a) the binarisms of gender, such as hetero-normativity and homophobia, b) the existential and archetypal nature of being, c) Cartesian mind-body dualities, and d) paradigms and practices of male athletes and dancers themselves.
In his The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Thomas Kuhn used "paradigm" to explain historical shifts in the practice of the hard sciences. Subsequently, Michel Foucault, in The Order of Things (1966), appropriated the word in a hermeneutical analysis of the human sciences. It is his unique exegesis of the history of knowledge that is used to track the historical arc of the masculinities.
This dissertation ultimately moves beyond the perspectives of Kuhn and Foucault to the work of feminist Judith Butler. In Bodies That Matter (1993), Butler maintains that one's gender is a cultural construct and that the process of gendering, though performative, is largely unconscious. If gender and sex are mere social constructs, where does that leave the nascent logos of an athlete or dancer's body? A counter-argument is made that in order to be coherent, the masculinities must possess, at minimum, a mindful body in addition to an embodied mind.
Keywords: Masculinities; Dancer; Athlete; Body; Discipline; Gender; Hero; Archetype; Dasein.
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Körnlein, Daniel [Verfasser], Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] Kohlenbach, Acedo Genaro [Akademischer Betreuer] López, and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Streicher. "Quantitative Analysis of Iterative Algorithms in Fixed Point Theory and Convex Optimization / Daniel Körnlein. Betreuer: Ulrich Kohlenbach ; Genaro Lopez Acedo ; Thomas Streicher." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-54859.
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Körnlein, Daniel Verfasser], Ulrich [Akademischer Betreuer] [Kohlenbach, Acedo Genaro [Akademischer Betreuer] López, and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Streicher. "Quantitative Analysis of Iterative Algorithms in Fixed Point Theory and Convex Optimization / Daniel Körnlein. Betreuer: Ulrich Kohlenbach ; Genaro Lopez Acedo ; Thomas Streicher." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1112269401/34.
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Leissner, Debra Holt. "The Gender of Time in the Eighteenth-century English Novel." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278321/.
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This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.
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Webb, Brock F. "This side of midnight: Recovering a queer politics of disco club culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363615857.
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Morrissey, Sean Afnán. "Dancing around masculinity? : young men negotiating risk in the context of dance education." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=59614.
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This thesis examines the intersection between masculinity and risk in educational settings. It draws on an intensive examination of the field of dance-education in Scotland and an extended period of research with YDance, Scotland’s only state-funded dance education company. Data was gleaned from a combination of qualitative and ethnographic methods including unstructured interviews, planned discussion groups and participant observation. The thesis synthesises the work of Ulrich Beck and with micro-level approaches popular in studies of gender and education through Bourdieu’s meso-level theories of society and social actors. It uses Bourdieu in new ways, both to reconcile these concerns of structure and action and to overcome key problems that have been identified with the work of authors like Butler and Connell. Substantively, the thesis draws attention to the risks which so-called ‘feminised’ activities like dance pose to young masculine identities and the role played by schools in reproducing and tacitly authorising inculcated assumptions about dance, gender and sexuality. The thesis also investigates the various ways in which dance educators attempt to challenge these reified associations and considers some of the unintended consequences of these practices. Despite ostensibly challenging gender stereotypes, many of the steps taken in order to engage boys in dance at school result in the reproduction of strong versions of masculinity and femininity. In attempting to recode dance as a ‘acceptable’ activity for young men, dance educators often disavow the contribution of gay and effeminate men to the art form, downplay the merits of genres like ballet which is perceived to carry particularly strong associations of femininity and homosexuality, and engage – albeit subtly – in misogyny and homophobia. Dance educators are often therefore unintentional agents of the reproduction of inculcated masculinities and gender inequality.
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Denney, Karson B. "Real Men Can Dance, But Not in That Costume: Latter-day Saints' Perception of Gender Roles Portrayed on Dancing with the Stars." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2615.
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This thesis attempts to better understand gender roles portrayed in the media. By using Stuart Hall's theory of audience reception (Hall, 1980) the researcher looks into dance and gender in the media to indicate whether or not LDS participants believe stereotypical gender roles are portrayed on Dancing with the Stars." Through four focus groups containing a total of 30 participants, the researcher analyzed costuming, choreography, and judges' comments through the viewer's eyes. From participant responses, the conclusion was made that audience members do perceive stereotypical gender roles on "Dancing with the Stars." Participants felt that costuming was the biggest indicator of gender roles on the show, and that choreography and judges' comments also contributed to the perception of gender roles.
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Boivineau, Pauline. "Danse contemporaine, genre et féminisme en France (1968-2015)." Thesis, Angers, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ANGE0034/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur un objet complexe liant danse contemporaine, genre et féminisme dans l’espace français de 1968 à 2015. La danse partage les préoccupations des militantes féministes à l’égard des problématiques d’identité, de sexualité, d’émancipation,de déconstruction du genre et des binarismes, de recherche universaliste ou de féminitude. Nous analysons comment le féminisme informe les artistes qui, quelle que soit l’époque, peinent à se dire féministes ou à penser leur art comme l’expression de leur engagement. Considérer le potentiel subversif de la danse implique une analyse de son rapport au genre et en particulier au genre féminin, doublée par celle de la place réelle et symbolique des femmes. Les idées reçues et les stéréotypes se confrontent à la réalité.L’année 1968 marque un tournant social qui concorde avec celui de la danse, y compris d’un point de vue politique. L’art chorégraphique prend son essor au moment où la seconde vague féministe arrive sur le devant de la scène. En 50 ans les rapports qu’entretiennent la danse et le féminisme sont reconfigurés, ce qui permet d’évaluer les influences réciproques et de postuler l’existence d’une danse féministe. La confrontation aux langages des chorégraphes hommes permet de comprendre les constructions genrées et leur potentiel de remise en cause du système hétéronormé et androcentré.Comment les grandes mutations politiques (mise en place des CCN, turn-over des directions, parité, etc.),féministes (apparition d’une troisième vague, etc.),esthétiques et médiatiques nourrissent-elles la danse en tant que moyen d’expression du genre et du féminisme ? La généralisation de la nudité et la queerisation de la danse soulèvent l’enjeu du passage de la transgression du genre à sa subversion. Il s’agit de comprendre comment la troisième vague féministe, plus ouverte à la dimension culturelle et intersectionnelle, permet à la danse d’être féministeThis thesis analyses a complex question linkingcontemporary dance, gender and feminism in Francefrom 1968 to 2015. Dance shares the concerns offeminist activists regarding issues of identity, sexuality, emancipation, the deconstruction of gender andbinarisms, of universalist research and femaleness. Thisstudy examines how feminism informed artists who,whatever the era, had difficulty admitting that they werefeminists or seeing their art as an expression of theircommitment. Considering the subversive potential ofdance implies an analysis of its relationship with gender,in particular the female gender, as well as the real andsymbolic place of women. Preconceived ideas andstereotypes thus confront reality. The year 1968 markeda turning point for society and for dance, including froma political point of view. Dance came into its own at thesame time that second-wave feminism came to the fore.The reconfiguration of the relationships between danceand feminism that occurred over this 50-year periodallows one to assess reciprocal influences and topostulate the existence of a feminist dance. Comparingfemale choreographers' modes of expression with thoseof men, facilitates the understanding of genderedconstructions and their potential for challengingheteronormativity and androcentrism. How do the majorpolitical changes (establishment of the NCCs,management changes, parity, etc.), feminists(appearance of a third wave, etc.), aesthetics andmediatisation nurture dance as a means of expressionof gender and feminism? The generalisation of nudityand the queerisation of dance suggest the passage fromthe transgression of gender to its subversion. Thisthesis aims to understand how third-wave feminism,more open to cultural and intersectional dimensions,enabled dance to be feminist
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Keenan, Sharon M. "A Choreographic Exploration of Race and Gender Representation in Film and Dance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1002.
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Through extensive research which culminates in a choreographic component, this thesis explores the lack of diverse representation within artistic and entertainment industries in regards to race and gender. In pursuit of a concise argument, most of the focus is on race and the conditioned view of gender as binary. Looking specifically at dance and film, it considers and analyzes why this absence persists, along with ways to ensure progress. The analysis and exploration unfolds in five central chapters: Research, Conception of the Dance, One and the Same, and Try It On Make It Fit. By detailing all that goes into creating a space that consistently hinders representation of minorities, this project will provide a better understanding of how minority communities are affected as a result. With this knowledge, I hope to present solutions that are simple with an attempt to demonstrate the urgency for new methods that expand portraits of diverse and authentic representations outside of the “norm.” The significance of this project lies in the articulation of an issue that is too often ignored. Change will not happen until it becomes unacceptable for people to remain ignorant and complacent on the subject.
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Kosstrin, Hannah Joy. "Honest Bodies: Jewishness, Radicalism, and Modernism in Anna Sokolow's Choreography from 1927-1961." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300761075.
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López, Rodriguez Fernando. "Mutations du désir en danse : tablao et flamenco contemporain : genre, contextes de production et catégories esthétiques (Espagne 1808-2018)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA080037.
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Cette thèse s’interroge sur le surgissement de la danse flamenca contemporaine en Espagne dans les an-nées 1990-2000. Cette danse est ici analysée comme un phénomène artistique qui naît en réaction à la danse flamenca dite traditionnelle produite dans des tablaos à partir des années 1950. Les tablaos, qui offrent des spectacles de flamenco pour des touristes, sont analysés depuis le moment de sa création jusqu’à l’actualité ainsi qu’en rapport avec le café chantant, son ancêtre esthétique (1850-1920), ayant comme perspective principale d’analyse celle des études de genre.Dans un premier moment, j’analyse les continuités et les discontinuités entre le café chantant et le tablao. Après, le focus est mis sur l’apparition de la « danse flamenca contemporaine », en explicitant autant les facteurs contextuels qui ont favorisé sa naissance que les motivations personnelles des artistes et les enjeux esthétiques à l’œuvre. J’analyse aussi les conséquences esthétiques et communautaires qu’un tel phénomène a produites chez les différents acteurs du milieu flamenco. Enfin, je montre les effets que la crise économique de 2008 a eus dans le milieu du flamenco et comment les artistes ont dû développer une diversité de stratégies de survie qui se sont traduites par une complexification des posi-tionnements esthétiques à partir des éléments construits pendant la période antérieure des années 1990 et 2000. Le développement de cette recherche s’articule aussi à l’analyse de trois études de cas en relation directe avec mon travail artistique, et s’achève sur un épilogue qui décrit Pensaor, pièce chorégraphique créée en parallèle à la thèse écrite où je « performe ma recherche »This thesis examines the emergence of contemporary flamenco dance in Spain in the years 1990-2000. This dance is analyzed here as an artistic phenomenon that arises in reaction to the so-called traditional flamenco dance produced in tablaos from the 1950s. Tablaos, which offer flamenco shows for tourists, are analyzed from the moment of its creation until today as well as in relation to the café cantante, its esthetic ancestor (1850-1920), having as main perspective of analysis the one of gender studies. In a first moment, I analyze the continuities and the discontinuities between the café cantante and the tablao. After, the focus is on the emergence of « contemporary flamenco dance » , explaining as much the contextual factors that favored its birth as the personal motivations of the artists and the aes-thetic stakes at work. I also analyze the aesthetic and social consequences that such a phenomenon has produced among the various actors of the flamenco milieu. Finally, I show the effects that the economic crisis of 2008 had on the flamenco scene and how the artists had to develop a variety of survival strate-gies that resulted in a complexification of aesthetic positions based on the elements built during the pe-riod. previous years of the 1990s and 2000s. The development of this research is also based on the analysis of three case studies directly relat-ed to my artistic work, and ends with an epilogue that describes Pensaor, a choreographic piece created in parallel with the written thesis where I « perform my research »
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Caltabiano, Pamela Ann. "Embodied Identities: Negotiating the Self through Flamenco Dance." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/33.
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Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Atlanta, this study analyzes how transnational practices of, and discourse about, flamenco dance contribute to the performance and embodiment of gender, ethnic, and national identities. It argues that, in the context of the flamenco studio, women dancers renegotiate authenticity and hybridity against the backdrop of an embodied “exot-ic” passion.
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Pereira, Germana Cleide. "Dois pra lÃ, dois pra cÃ: a construÃÃo dos modelos de masculinidade e feminilidade na academia de danÃa de salÃo." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9797.
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgicoO objetivo dessa pesquisa à analisar a construÃÃo dos papÃis masculinos e femininos na academia de danÃa de salÃo. Para isso, foram tomados os espaÃos do salÃo de danÃa do Projeto DanÃar Faz Bem, o processo de ensino-aprendizagem dessa atividade, as normas da academia e especialmente as disposiÃÃes tÃcnicas e estÃticas dos danÃarinos para a produÃÃo de um corpo-danÃa apropriado a damas e cavalheiros. Desse modo, foram analisados corpos, gestos e performances de professores e alunos, durante as aulas, as interaÃÃes entre homens e mulheres e o ritual da escola de danÃa com seus ensinamentos a iniciantes e veteranos.
The objective of this research is to analyze the construction of male and female roles in the Academy of ballroom dancing. For this, the spaces were taken ballroom dancing Project Does Well, the process of teaching and learning of this activity, the rules of the academy and especially the technical and aesthetic dancers to produce a body-suited to dancing ladies and gentlemen. Thus, we analyzed the bodies, gestures and performances by teachers and students during the lessons, interactions between men and women and ritual dance school with its teaching beginners and veterans.
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Merritt, Carolyn P. "Locating the Tango: Place and the Nuevo Social Dance Community." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/13758.
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In this dissertation, I examine the impact of globalizing processes upon the contemporary Argentine tango scene in Buenos Aires. Focusing on a contested trend referred to as tango nuevo, I engage debates surrounding: authenticity and cultural ownership; the performance of gender and sexuality; generational conflict in human movement practice; the enduring significance of place in an era of heightened globalization; the role of place and global economics in shaping transnational cultural formations; community as a site of anxiety, hierarchy and conflict; the tension between preservation and evolution in the survival of cultural phenomena; and conflicting narratives of dance as drug, therapy and pain. The result of a five-year pursuit of Argentine tango, both as an anthropologist and a dancer, this dissertation is informed by two years of fieldwork in Buenos Aires, three years of preliminary research in Philadelphia, a preliminary fieldsite investigation in Buenos Aires, and participant observation in a handful of U.S. tango communities preceding fieldwork. This dissertation will add to the literature on Argentine tango by challenging popular and scholarly notions of what may be encompassed under this term. With community as the key concept underlying my study, I hope to expand upon the application of semiotic analysis in dance studies through an emphasis on practice and phenomenology, framing community through the performance of shared bodily vocabularies that are open to renewal and transformation. Building upon recent anthropological investigations of globalization and modernity, I suggest that human movement practices present a rich area for further research into the enduring significance of place. In approaching a fluid, global community via local-level fieldwork that is oriented towards the passage of media, ideas and dancers across borders, my project suggests a solution to the quandaries of doing ethnography and microanalysis in complex, transnational macro-contexts. With the growth of new sites, new codes, and a new community of practitioners, I argue that the study of tango in anthropological perspective offers a unique view into the ways in which individuals carve out notions of personhood, identity and culture in a globalized world.
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Richard, Byron Marvin. ""DADDY, ROOT ME IN": TETHERING YOUNG SONS IN THE CONTEXT OF MALE, INTER-GENERATIONAL, CHILD-CENTERED, DANCE EDUCATION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/37316.
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This study of the dance experiences of related men and boys pursues overlapping and related research goals. It is an investigation about reflective teaching practice in the process of developing an emergent curriculum for this multi-generational group of men and boys. It is an investigation about the communicative moments between participants through which members expressed their pedagogical regard for each other, their needs, desires and their dance learning. And it is an investigation about this group of men and boys as an example of aesthetic community, a community engaged in expressing and mediating individual style and dispositions through a group process and resulting in deeply shared aesthetic meanings and group style. Fourteen participants in six family groups danced together on seven Saturdays in a small community north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants ranged in age from five-years old to more than forty-five years old. Dance curriculum was designed in reference to the teacher's knowledge and experience of creative movement for primary aged children, and in reference to the teacher's dance performance and choreographic experiences and experiences of parenting. Based on detailed transcriptions of two-camera video documentation of the seven sessions, a narrative analysis thickly describes significant movements of participants, before, during and after the sessions, as well as interactions and participants' utterances. Post-session captioned drawings are discussed in detail following each session. Major findings are then presented as related to three research goals: reflective practice for emergent curriculum design, intersubjectivity as it occurred in this example of inter-generational dance education and an examination of this group of learners as an example of aesthetic community. Findings are discussed in relation to relevant literature and recommendations posed for further research.
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Nance, Curtis Kemal. "Brothers of the 'Bah Yah!': The Pursuit of Maleness in the Umfundalai Tradition of African Dance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/291024.
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Inaugurated by Kariamu Welsh in 1970, Umfundalai is an evolving contemporary African dance technique that draws movements from African and Diasporan dances. As one of the first of thirteen men to study and perform the technique, Umfundalai reified a North American African male identity, empowering me to navigate American and African American social scripts that posit dancing as a non-masculine activity. This study employs an autoethnographic lens to illuminate men's constructions of gender in Umfundalai. Specifically, the research explores maleness, an experienced gendered agency, among eight male practitioners, including the researcher. Brothers of the Bah Yáh is framed as a multi-layered inquiry that applies phenomenological values and procedures to forward an auto-ethnographic intention. The study's qualitative methodology draws on Max van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology and Anselm Strauss's applied grounded theory, as well as historical description and dance analysis. Sources of data include interviews with seven Umfundalai men, Umfundalai's progenitor and first dance master; an in-depth research journal recording my own lived experience descriptions and memories of dancing Umfundalai; and videos of selected Umfundalai repertory. The study is informed by the literature of masculine studies, highlighting the social function of masculinities as scripted and learned ideals. There is a dearth of resources theorizing the African American presence in African dance on the American concert stage. Drawing on primary sources, the empirical findings of the study are framed in a historical analysis of the emergence of a male presence in Umfundalai since 1993, including male-inspired developments in the technique. Analysis of in-depth interviews reveal that performing Umfundalai choreography affords men an opportunity to dance a self-determined construction of gender performance and that Umfundalai studio practice can be a site for men's affirmation of their `dancer' identities as well as friction with gender performance. Further, while Kariamu Welsh's approach to developing Umfundalai's movement system may be described as gender-neutral, the continuance of Umfundalai by its dance masters substantiated a gendered Umfundalai in which movement and performance were aligned with scripted conventional masculine tropes. The Brothers of the Bah Yáh: The Pursuit of Maleness in the Umfundalai Tradition of African Dance reveals that `the pursuit of maleness' was a unique construction experienced only by the researcher. Contradicting my initial presumption, the other men in this study found their gendered agency outside of Umfundalai. Moreover, a large majority of men in this study draw significantly on conventional masculinities, namely strength and power, to feel their maleness. Further, a spirituality of solidarity was uncovered - an embodied masculinity that can arise while dancing Umfundalai choreography and observing other men dancing at the same time. The dissertation concludes that expressions of maleness as described by Umfundalai's dancing men have currency in sports and in the larger American and African American communities out of which Umfundalai's dance culture emerges. Strength, power, and spiritual transformation situated in similitude represent commonalities of male experiences. At the same time, Umfundalai choreography can house multiple masculinities. Dances like Kariamu Welsh's Raaahmonaaah! (1989) and my Genesis: The Royal Dance of Kings (1996) serve as portals for masculinities that dismantle the hegemony that erodes the community in which it exists. Further research is needed to understand how dancing men can be a force that dismantles racism, sexism, and homophobia.
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De, Boer Kyle Dylan. "Queer transgressions : the choreographing of a male homosexual presence with reference to selected choreographers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009442.
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Queer Transgressions: The choreographing of a male homosexual presence with reference to selected choreographers explores queer identity and in particular representations of a male homosexual presence in dance. Within the methodological framework of dance studies and queer theory I explore the ―self fashioning‖ of my male homosexual presence in dance. This is achieved by critically deconstructing my choreographic process when making choreography. Therefore this thesis is informed by both academic research and my self-reflexive experience of choreography and dance performance. The deconstruction of my autobiography and choreographic process is discussed with reference to both international and South African queer choreographers. This means that by accounting for my own experiences and approaches toward representing a male homosexual presence in dance, I explore the history and engagements of other queer choreographers also creating such representations. I therefore examine the works of selected choreographers and chart the development of the representation of a male homosexual presence in dance. By exploring the choreographic process of other queer choreographers I identify choreographic tactics that queer choreographers are using when making work. From this point of departure I shift the focus away from international queer choreographers and provide insight into the choreographic processes of South African queer choreographers. By accounting for the works and choreographic processes of South African choreographers, I provide a context in which my choreographic explorations on the subject matter can take place. This choreographic exploration manifests itself through a self-reflexive/autobiographic account on the research and practice of my choreographic process. During my choreographic exploration I set the challenge to both engage with and explore further, established ―queering tactics. This is done with the intention to reveal and create representations of a male homosexual presence in dance.
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Lee, Deng-Huei. "The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4312/.
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Tracing the development of his dance imagery, this dissertation argues that Yeats's collaborations with various early modern dancers influenced his conceptions of the body, gender, and Irish nationalism. The critical tendency to read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals of Salome has led to exaggerated charges of misogyny, and to neglect of these emblems' relationship to the poet's nationalism. Drawing on body criticism, dance theory, and postcolonialism, this project rereads the politics that underpin Yeats's idea of the dance, calling attention to its evolution and to the heterogeneity of its manifestations in both written texts and dramatic performances. While the dancer of Yeats's texts follow the dictates of male-authored scripts, those in actual performances of his works acquired more agency by shaping choreography. In addition to working directly with Michio Ito and Ninette de Valois, Yeats indirectly collaborated with such trailblazers of early modern dance as Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, and Ruth St. Denis. These collaborations shed important light on the germination of early modern dance and on current trends in the performative arts. Registering anti-imperialist and anti-industrialist agendas, the early Yeats's dancing Sidhe personify a romantic nationalism that seeks to inspire resistance to the cultural machinery of British colonization. In his middle career, these collective Sidhe transmute into the solitary figure of a bird-woman-witch dancer, who, resembling the soloists of early modern dance, occupies center stage without any support from men and (to some extent) contests patriarchal assumptions. The late Yeats satirizes the imposition of sexual, racial, and religious purity on postcolonial Irish identity by means of Salome-like dances in which "fair" dancers hold the severed heads of "foul" spectators. These dances blur customary socio-political boundaries between fair and foul, classical and grotesque. Early to late, the evolution of Yeats's dancers reflects his gradual incorporation of more innovative female roles partly resembling those created by the pioneers of modern dance.
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Béhar, Pierre. ""Silesia Tragica" : épanouissement et fin de l'école dramatique silésienne dans l'oeuvre tragique de Daniel Casper von Lohenstein (1635-1683)." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040002.
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Hopkin, Rachel Claire. "Argentine Tango in Cincinnati: An Ethnographic Study of Ethos, Affect, Gender, and Ageing in a Midwestern Dance Community." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574766653540698.
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Greenberg, Maximanova O. "“Am I Sexy Yet?”: Contextualizing the Movement of Exotic Dance and Its Effects on Female Dancers’ Self-image and Sexual Expression." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/352.
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“‘Am I Sexy Yet?’: Contextualizing the Movement of Exotic Dance and Its Effects on Female Dancers’ Self-image and Sexual Expression” looks at exotic dancing in three contexts––a pole fitness studio, a strip club, and a college dance concert––and how the movement is experienced by the dancers in each space. It questions how the movement changes meaning for the dancers, audience, and mainstream culture based on the context and location, even with similar content. Specifically, it analyzes how the experiences of the dancers affect their self confidence, sexuality, and sexual expression. Then, it applies Audre Lorde's “Uses of the Erotic” to their experiences to show how this movement can be looked at through a different lens as deeper, more freeing, and more transgressive than it is usually thought to be.
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Svensson, Sara, and Ida Nordmark. "”Alla kan dansa!” : Synen på rörelse till musik samt dans i ämnet idrott och hälsa ur ett genusperspektiv." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för idrottsvetenskap (ID), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27632.
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Dansen har funnits länge i människans närhet och den har olika betydelser beroende på vad individen har för uppfattning om dansens normer och uppbyggnad. Syftet med vår empiriska studie är att undersöka om pojkar och flickor har en liknande syn på ämnesområdet rörelse till musik samt dans i gymnasieskolan och i så fall varför eller varför inte de har det. Vi har utgångspunkt i genusperspektivet och därmed Hirdmans (2001) teorier om genuskontraktet. Metoden vi har använt oss av är den kvantitativa undersökningsmetoden. Inom ramen för den kvantitativa undersökningsmetoden valde vi enkäter eftersom det är enklast att få svar på våra frågeställningar samt för att det ger oss stora möjligheter att nå ut till många individer. Rörelse till musik samt dans uppfattas som ett feminint ämne. Resultatet visar på att den uppfattningen är generell bland det manliga könet. Pojkar som svarat på enkäten menar att dans är ”tjejigt”. Elevers inställning är att dans rent generellt är till för båda könen.
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Barwick, Emily Moran. "Layers of the LapDance Scholarship: conception & foundational thought processes, history, development, & issues inherent therein and arising therefrom." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3563.
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The LapDance Scholarship was conceived in November of 2009, opened for applications in December 2010, and awarded its final scholarship in October 2012. The Scholarship has been awarded to ten recipients for the funding of their art projects. The total monies awarded totals $2,886. The Scholarship was created by Hailey Jude Minder and administered by Emily Moran Barwick. Part of its inspiration was the idea of funding something as decidedly "high brow" as fine art with something as decidedly "low brow" as lap dancing (to borrow from the chosen vernacular of the high court justices of New York in their recent ruling). The LapDance Scholarship was open to any Iowa City resident, and was awarded on a monthly basis. All applications were submitted through the blog lapdancescholarship.blogspot.com.
The Scholarship is a multi-faceted project that has spanned three years, involved thousands of hours of labor, and funded ten artistic endeavors with both local and international applications. While the Scholarship itself is simple in its premise (artist applies, artist is chosen, Hailey performs lap dances, Hailey gets money, money is given to artist), the history, development, and inherent implications and issues of the Scholarship are anything but.
In the following pages, I attempt to offer some of the layers of this project. I will delve into the history and development of the Scholarship as well some of the foundational thought processes underlying its conception and issues sparked by its existence. I do not claim to have produced an exhaustive analysis on all of the various elements arising from and inherent within the Scholarship, but rather an intimate view of certain aspects, moments, and thoughts. I have intentionally left out any hard and fast conclusions. I find that approach neither productive nor realistically possible. Nothing here is black and white, including my own identity and position. I am so personally entwined with this project, as it has come, literally, from my body and mind, that I cannot successfully separate myself as an objective viewer and analyst. Nor can I fully separate Emily and Hailey. So I offer you instances, layers, windows in. I offer you select parts, allow you to look, touch, consider. I offer you some of what I have to give. I offer you some, but not all.
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Frankel, Tara Maylyn. "Weaving Through Reality: Dance as an Active Emblem of Fantasy in Performance Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/37.
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Literature uses dance to reveal underlying messages of fantasy through the themes of the central narrative of female characters. Examining the original texts with respect to their varying adaptations for film and stage, performance literature reveals how directors relate a three-dimensional story to an audience from a two-dimensional world. Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” shows an underlying semiotic code where transitioning from the black and white of reality to the red of fantasy is only accomplished through dancing. Oscar Wilde’s Salome displays an eroticization of the exotic solo-improvised dance that provides a semblance of control for the main character. The story of Giselle reveals a meta narrative describing the desire and plight of the professional dancer. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, in contrast, provides a world in which dance as a fantasy element cannot exist. Examining the physical elements of these works of literature elucidates the use of dance as a lens that lets the performance become speech.
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Trygged, Sofia. "In Danger or Dangerous? : A discourse analysis of representations of Swedish women and children affiliated with ISIS after the breakdown of the 'caliphate'." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403386.
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After the fall of ISIS ‘caliphate’, Sweden and other European countries are struggling with how to handle the group of people who left Europe to join the terrorist organisation and now seek to return. In traditional narratives of gender and war, women and children are commonly perceived as innocent victims in need of protection. This narrative now seems to be challenged by European countries hesitation to repatriate, not only men, but also women and children affiliated with ISIS. Drawing on securitization, feminist and postcolonial theory, this thesis examines political discourses surrounding women and children in Sweden after the fall of the ‘caliphate’ and considers how this seemingly discursive transformation allows for exceptional measures. The analysis finds that these women are foremost ascribed meaning in relation to the men of ISIS and appear to be portrayed as guilty perpetrators rather than victims. While the lives of the children are construed as more valuable, they are yet associated with different risks and problems. In these meaning-making processes, it is possible to identify hierarchies in relation to gender and race in which women and children are perceived as ‘the other’ and, to some extent, reabsorbed into the threatening mass of ISIS terrorists that Sweden needs protection from.