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Author : Anne Hutchinson Guest
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134288427
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anne Hutchinson Guest
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134288496
How do conscious experience, subjectivity, and free will arise from the brain and the body? Even in the late 20th century, consciousness was considered to be beyond the reach of science. Now, understanding the neural mechanisms underlying consciousness is recognized as a key objective for 21st century science. The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness is a fundamentally multidisciplinary enterprise, involving powerful new combinations of functional brain imaging, computational modelling, theoretical innovation, and basic neurobiology. Its progress will be marked by new insights not only into the complex brain mechanisms underlying consciousness, but also by novel clinical approaches to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. These innovations are well represented by the contents of the present volume. A target article by Victor Lamme puts forward the contentious position that neural evidence should trump evidence from behaviour and introspection, in any theory of consciousness. This article and its several commentaries advance one of the fundamental debates in consciousness science, namely whether there exists non-reportable phenomenal consciousness, perhaps dependent on local rather than global neural processes. Other articles explore the wider terrain of the new science of consciousness. For example, Maniscalco and colleagues use theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation to selectively impair metacognitive awareness; Massimini and coworkers examine changes in functional connectivity during anesthesi, and Vanhaudenhuyse et al describe innovations in detecting residual awareness following traumatic brain injury. Together, then contents of this volume exemplify the `grand challenge of consciousness' in combining transformative questions about the human condition with a tractable programme of experimental and theoretical research.
Author : Ted Shawn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Dance
ISBN : UIUC:30112003224513
Author : Ted Shawn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Addresses, essays, lectures
ISBN : NYPL:33433019475833
Author : Paul A. Scolieri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199331086
Ted Shawn (1891-1972) is the self-proclaimed "Father of American Dance" who helped to transform dance from a national pastime into theatrical art. In the process, he made dancing an acceptable profession for men and taught several generations of dancers, some of whom went on to become legendary choreographers and performers in their own right, most notably his protégés Martha Graham, Louise Brooks, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. Shawn tried for many years and with great frustration to tell the story of his life's work in terms of its social and artistic value, but struggled, owing to the fact that he was homosexual, a fact known only within his inner circle of friends. Unwilling to disturb the meticulously narrated account of his paternal exceptionalism, he remained closeted, but scrupulously archived his journals, correspondence, programs, photographs, and motion pictures of his dances, anticipating that the full significance of his life, writing, and dances would reveal itself in time. Ted Shawn: His Life, Writings, and Dances is the first critical biography of the dance legend, offering an in-depth look into Shawn's pioneering role in the formation of the first American modern dance company and school, the first all-male dance company, and Jacob's Pillow, the internationally renowned dance festival and school located in the Berkshires. The book explores Shawn's writings and dances in relation to emerging discourses of modernism, eugenics and social evolution, revealing an untold story about the ways that Shawn's homosexuality informed his choreographic vision. The book also elucidates the influences of contemporary writers who were leading a radical movement to depathologize homosexuality, such as the British eugenicist Havelock Ellis and sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and conversely, how their revolutionary ideas about sexuality were shaped by Shawn's modernism.
Author : Paul A. Scolieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Choreographers
ISBN : 0190050586
Author : Phoebe Rumsey,Dustyn Martincich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350235557
From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre. Through the integration of song and dance in the 'dream ballets' of choreographers like Agnes De Mille; the triple threat performances of Jerome Robbins' dancers; the signature style creation by choreographers like Bob Fosse with dancers like Gwen Verdon; and the contemporary, identity-driven work of choreographers like Camille A. Brown, the history of the body in movement is one that begs study and appreciation. Dance in Musical Theatre offers guidelines in how to read this movement by analyzing it in terms of composition and movement vocabulary whilst simultaneously situating it both historically and critically. This collection provides the tools, terms, history, and movement theory for reading, interpreting, and centralizing a discussion of dance in musical theatre, importantly, with added emphasis on women and artists of color. Bringing together musical theatre and dance scholars, choreographers and practitioners, this edited collection highlights musical theatre case studies that employ dance in a dramaturgically essential manner, tracking the emergence of the dancer as a key figure in the genre, and connecting the contributions to past and present choreographers. This collection foregrounds the work of the ensemble, incorporating firsthand and autoethnographic accounts that intersect with historical and cultural contexts. Through a selection of essays, this volume conceptualizes the function of dance in musical: how it functions diegetically as a part of the story or non-diegetically as an amplification of emotion, as well as how the dancing body works to reveal character psychology by expressing an unspoken aspect of the libretto, embodying emotions or ideas through metaphor or abstraction. Dance in Musical Theatre makes dance language accessible for instructors, students, and musical theatre enthusiasts, providing the tools to critically engage with the work of important choreographers and dancers from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
Author : Ted Shawn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Addresses, essays, lectures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111092586
Author : Robin Veder
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781611687255
Robin Veder's The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The author illuminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures, and physiological aesthetics in early-twentieth-century American culture, fundamentally altering our perceptions about art and the physical, and the degree of cross-pollination in the arts. The Living Line shows that American producers and consumers of modernist visual art repeatedly characterized their aesthetic experience in terms of kinesthesia, the sense of bodily movement. They explored abstraction with kinesthetic sensibilities and used abstraction to achieve kinesthetic goals. In fact, the formalist approach to art was galvanized by theories of bodily response derived from experimental physiological psychology and facilitated by contemporary body cultures such as modern dance, rhythmic gymnastics, physical education, and physical therapy. Situating these complementary ideas and exercises in relation to enduring fears of neurasthenia, Veder contends that aesthetic modernism shared industrial modernity's objective of efficiently managing neuromuscular energy. In a series of finely grained and interconnected case studies, Veder demonstrates that diverse modernists associated with the Armory Show, the Socit Anonyme, the Stieglitz circle (especially O'Keeffe), and the Barnes Foundation participated in these discourses and practices and that "kin-aesthetic modernism" greatly influenced the formation of modern art in America and beyond. This daring and completely original work will appeal to a broad audience of art historians, historians of the body, and American culture in general.
Author : Eugenio Barba,Nicola Savarese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135176341
First Published in 2005. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology subtly juxtaposes visual demonstrations of the performer’s craft, from a wealth of Eastern and Western sources. More than just a dictionary, this is a handbook for theatre practitioners and a guide for students and scholars of transcultural performance. It is the result of many years of research conducted by Eugenio Barba and the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) based in Denmark, and is now a classic foundational text. Whereas most Western research is concerned with naturalism and psychological realism in acting, the Dictionary focuses on the actor’s arduous and eclectic craft. The Dictionary aims to expand our knowledge of the possibilities of the scenic body, and of the spectator’s response to the dynamics of performance. The Dictionary has practical sections on balance, opposition and montage among other techniques, and discusses issues including The Text and the Stage, The Dilated Body and Energetic Language. This revised edition includes: three new chapters on Eurasian Theatre, Exercises and Organicity; 50 new photographs showing the performer’s craft in black and white and colour; and, for the first time, a useful bibliography and index.
Author : Ted Shawn
Publisher : Princeton Book Company Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033940425
Author : Walter Terry
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0385273703
Reviews Ted Shawn's sixty-year career and record of achievement as a dancer and choreographer and explores his private roles as lover, husband, friend, and enemy
Author : Terry Trueman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062216991
This "intense reading experience"* is a Printz Honor Book. Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to communicate his true feelings to his father, Shawn's life is in danger. To the world, Shawn's senses seem dead. Within these pages, however, we meet a side of him that no one else has seen—a spirit that is rich beyond imagining, breathing life. *Booklist starred review
Author : Ted Shawn
Publisher : Haskell House Pub Limited
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0838320325
The Peabody lectures of 1938 delivered at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. Reprint of the original edition without illustrations. First published in Great Britain by Dennis Dobson in 1946.
Author : Leslie Getz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018284773
Covers the full range of English language dance book literature published in the twentieth century as well as all the scholarly periodicals in the field from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.