"In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed ...as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its economy and society. This book offers a detailed analysis of the conflicts emerging between newly transplanted middle-class populations and different sectors of nightlife actors, and how these conflicts have led the NYC government to enforce "Quality of Life" policing over nightlife businesses. In particular, it provides a deep investigation of the zoning regulations that the municipal government has employed to control where certain types of nightlife can or cannot be located. Hae demonstrates the ways in which these struggles over nightlife have led to the "gentrification of nightlife," while infringing on urban inhabitants' rights of access to spaces of diverse urban subcultures, their "right to the city." The author also connects these struggles to the widely documented phenomenon of the increasing militarization of social life and space in contemporary cities, and the right to the city movements that have emerged in response. The story presented here involves dynamic and often contradictory interactions between different anti/pro-nightlife actors, illustrating what "actually existing" gentrification and post-industrialization looks like, and providing an urgent example for experts in related fields to consider as part of a re-theorization of gentrification and post-industrialization"--
Moving Sites Hunter, Victoria
2015, 20150327, 2015-03-27
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Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and ...practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed light both on approaches to making this type of dance practice, and evaluating and reflecting on it.
This edited volume combines critical thinking from a range of perspectives including commentary and observation from the fields of dance studies, human geography and spatial theory in order to present interdisciplinary discourse and a range of critical and practice-led lenses through which this type of work can be considered and explored. In so doing, this book addresses the following questions:
How do choreographers make site-specific dance performance?
What occurs when a moving body engages with site, place and environment?
How might we interpret, analyse and evaluate this type of dance practice through a range of theoretical lenses?
How can this type of practice inform wider discussions of embodiment, site, space, place and environment?
This innovative and exciting book seeks to move beyond description and discussion of site-specific dance as a spectacle or novelty and considers site-dance as a valid and vital form of contemporary dance practice that explores, reflects, disrupts, contests and develops understandings and practices of inhabiting and engaging with a range of sites and environments.
Dance is an embodied activity and, when applied therapeutically, can have several specific and unspecific health benefits. In this meta-analysis, we evaluated the effectiveness of dance movement ...therapy(DMT) and dance interventions for psychological health outcomes. Research in this area grew considerably from 1.3 detected studies/year in 1996-2012 to 6.8 detected studies/year in 2012-2018.
We synthesized 41 controlled intervention studies (
= 2,374; from 01/2012 to 03/2018), 21 from DMT, and 20 from dance, investigating the outcome clusters of quality of life, clinical outcomes (with sub-analyses of depression and anxiety), interpersonal skills, cognitive skills, and (psycho-)motor skills. We included recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in areas such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism, elderly patients, oncology, neurology, chronic heart failure, and cardiovascular disease, including follow-up data in eight studies.
Analyses yielded a medium overall effect (
= 0.60), with high heterogeneity of results (
= 72.62%). Sorted by outcome clusters, the effects were medium to large (
= 0.53 to
= 0.85). All effects, except the one for (psycho-)motor skills, showed high inconsistency of results. Sensitivity analyses revealed that
(DMT or dance) was a significant moderator of results. In the
, the overall medium effect was small, significant, and homogeneous/consistent (
= 0.30,
< 0.001,
= 3.47). In the
, the overall medium effect was large, significant, yet heterogeneous/non-consistent (
= 0.81,
< 0.001,
= 77.96). Results suggest that DMT decreases depression and anxiety and increases quality of life and interpersonal and cognitive skills, whereas dance interventions increase (psycho-)motor skills. Larger effect sizes resulted from observational measures, possibly indicating bias. Follow-up data showed that on 22 weeks after the intervention, most effects remained stable or slightly increased.
Consistent effects of DMT coincide with findings from former meta-analyses. Most dance intervention studies came from preventive contexts and most DMT studies came from institutional healthcare contexts with more severely impaired clinical patients, where we found smaller effects, yet with higher clinical relevance. Methodological shortcomings of many included studies and heterogeneity of outcome measures limit results. Initial findings on long-term effects are promising.
La chorégraphe flamande Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker a toujours tenu à distance l’idée selon laquelle, en danse contemporaine, musique et chorégraphie étaient indépendantes. Elle a noué, tout au long ...de sa déjà longue carrière artistique, de savants échanges avec l’art musical que ce livre tente de mettre en évidence. Ainsi, l’auteur a voulu donner une suite à son ouvrage Les Fils d’un entrelacs sans fin (Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2008) qui proposait une approche esthétique de la danse dans l’œuvre de Keersmaeker entre 1982 et 2005. Le présent volume prend la forme d’un essai qui rend compte des pièces les plus récentes (2005-2015) et re-périodise l’ensemble de son travail sous un angle que le premier livre avait un peu délaissé, à savoir les figures du dialogue entre danse et musique.
In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the first full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas explores the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links ...rural religious practices with urban post-modern innovation in distinctive ways even within Mexican culture, which is rife with ritual dances. The Concheros blend Catholic and indigenous traditions in their performances, but are not governed by a predetermined set of beliefs; rather they are bound together by long standing interpersonal connections framed by the discipline of their tradition. The Concheros manifest their spirituality by means of the dance. Rostas traces how they construct their identity and beliefs, both individual and communal, by its means. The book offers new insights into the experience of dancing as a Conchero while also exploring their history, organization and practices. Carrying the Word provides a new way for audiences to understand the Conchero's dance tradition, and will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Mesoamerica. Those studying identity, religion, and tradition will find this social-anthropological work particularly enlightening.
New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular ...contemporary dances in global circulation. In an exquisite trans-Atlantic dialogue that demonstrates the complexity and multilayered history of German dance, American and European scholars and artists elaborate on definitive performers and choreography, focusing on three major thematic areas: Weimar culture and its afterlife, the German Democratic Republic, and recent conceptual trends in theater dance._x000B__x000B_Contributors are Maaike Bleeker, Franz Anton Cramer, Kate Elswit, Susanne Franco, Susan Funkenstein, Jens Richard Giersdorf, Yvonne Hardt, Sabine Huschka, Claudia Jeschke, Marion Kant, Gabriele Klein, Karen Mozingo, Tresa Randall, Gerald Siegmund, and Christina Thurner.
La Danza y Expresión Corporal es una disciplina científica que ha evolucionado en los últimos años desde el estudio del movimiento per se hacia el análisis del cuerpo y de la danza en todas sus ...dimensiones. De esta forma, se ha configurado un cuerpo de conocimientos con gran base empírica, del cual se nutren áreas como la Medicina, Psicología, Pedagogía, y resto de ciencias relacionadas con la actividad física y el deporte. Para entender esta evolución, es fundamental hacer una diferenciación entre el concepto de Danza y el concepto de Expresión Corporal, hacer un recorrido por su objeto de estudio y por su status científico, incidiendo en las tres dimensiones principales donde se orientan sus aportes: la dimensión artística, la dimensión pedagógica y la dimensión psicoterapéutica. Por tanto, dada la importancia de esta materia para aumentar el cuerpo de conocimientos dentro de las Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, es necesario profundizar en sus fundamentos epistemológicos para orientar futuros estudios.Abstract. Dance and Body Expression is a scientific discipline that has evolved in recent years from the study of movement per se towards the analysis of the body and dance in all its dimensions. In this way, a body of knowledge has been configured with a great empirical base, from which areas such as Medicine, Psychology, Pedagogy, and other sciences related to physical activity and sport are nourished. To understand this evolution, it is essential to make a differentiation between the concept of Dance and the concept of Body Expression, and to take a tour of its object of study and its scientific status, focusing on the three main dimensions where its contributions are oriented: artistic dimension, pedagogical dimension and psychotherapeutic dimension. Therefore, given the importance of this subject to increase the body of knowledge within Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, it is necessary to deepen in its epistemological foundations to guide future studies.
Šiame darbe ketinama atkreipti dėmesį į meno prioritetą žmonijos kultūroje. Todėl norima išryškinti kai kurių šokio antropologų ir šokio estetikos tyrėjų požiūrį, teigiantį, jog šokis buvo pirmasis ...menas, atsiradęs daug anksčiau nei raštija ar kalbosmenas. Šį požiūrį patvirtina ir mokslininkų teiginiai, jog raštas ir žodis evoliuciniu būdu žmonijos istorijoje kilo gana vėlai.Todėl šokis ir tiesiog kūno išraiška, gali būti priskiriami neverbalinei saviraškai, atskirtai nuo rašymo ir kalbėjimo gebėjimų. Pirma, pateikiami garsių antropologų pasisakymai, kurie sutvirtina dėstomą poziciją ir pateikia akivaizdžių įrodymų. Toliau nagrinėjamas šventojo šokio pavyzdys, kuris gali būti dvasingumo, religijos ir kultūros sąveikos, besirandančios žmogaus kūno psichofizikinėje realybėje, kitaip tariant, asmenyje, pavyzdys. Ši pozicija grindžiama įvairiais įrodymais, pradedant urvine tapyba ir išsiplečiant iki Dervišo šokio apžvalgos. Išvados siejamos su įžvalgomis į religijos ir meno santykį bei į žmogaus kūno ir sakralumo sąsajas.
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