Palavras-chave: dança; mulheres; Barbacena - MG Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the participation of women from Barbacena - MG in the dances between 1915 and 1930. The newspaper ...Cidade de Barbacena is the source of the research and it is available in the Historical Library of the Luiz de Bessa State Public Library in Belo Horizonte - MG. ...there were journalistic discourses that sometimes condemned the practice of dances, especially the so-called modern dances, accusing them of being immoral and with characteristics that deformed the patriarchal family ideology already established, especially the figure of the woman, as well as speeches that showed permissiveness for the barbacenenses to be in the dancing moments. D. QUIXOTE, articulista do Cidade de Barbacena, sugerindo a existencia de um estilo de dança futurista, inspirado nas técnicas do futebol, o "<>", ressalta que pelos progressos femininos seria a mulher que chutaria o homem para fazer gol, e nao o contrario7.
From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor ...or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.
People with Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently have low activity levels, reduced quality of life and their caregivers often experience social isolation. Recent evidence suggests that tango dance ...program improve balance, functional mobility, spatial cognition and quality of life for patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact on caregivers’ burden feelings.
People with Parkinson disease and their caregivers participated in an adapted tango for PD dancing classes once per week for 3 months in Montpellier in France. Both balance (Berg Balance Scale, sit to stand test), gait (6-Minute Walk Test T6M), mood (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and caregivers burden (Zarit Caregiver Burden Inventory) were assessed prior and after therapy with appropriate tools and questionnaires. We analyzed pre-/post-differences with Wilcoxon tests.
Twenty-eight patients (not only Parkinson disease but also atypical forms, Hoehn and Yahr: 2.5±0.65, duration of the disease: 7.4 y±5.1) and 18 caregivers enrolled in the program. Participants significantly improved at the Berg Balance Scale (54.3±3.55 vs. 52.61±5.03, P=0.03). No significant improvement was observed on the other tests: sit to stand, T6M, Hospital and Anxiety depression scale. We even noted an increasing Zarit scale (32.7±17.9 vs. 25.5±18.3) for the caregivers. Eight of them experienced infectious disease, cancer or stroke during the program, in accordance with their fragility.
As previously demonstrated, adapted tango was effective in improving balance in PD patients. In our study, we noted that even if, tango partenered dance is not enough to relieve caregivers from the stress of providing continuous care, we observe that, from now on, most of caregivers are able to recognize the signs of caregiver stress, so they can seek the necessary support.
Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango. To accommodate these intimate voyagers, tourist agencies offer travel packages, including classes ...in tango instruction, dance shoe shopping, and special city maps pointing out the tango clubs in town. Some of these agencies even provide "taxi dancers" - mainly Argentine men, who make a living by selling themselves as dance escorts to foreign women on a short term stay. Based on a cheek-to-cheek ethnography of intimate life in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires, this book provides a passionate exploration of tango - its sentiments and symbolic orders - as well as a critical investigation of the effects of globalization on intimate economies. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has formed at the intersection of close embrace dances and dollars. Bringing economies of intimacy centre stage, the book describes how a global condition is lived bodily, emotionally and politically, and offers a rich, provocative contribution to theorizing today's global flows of people, money, and fragile dreams. As the narrative charts a course across a sea of intense, immediate emotional sensations, taken-for-granted ideas about sex, romance and power twist and turn like the steps of the tango.
Drosophila’s lateral posterior neurons (LPNs) belong to a small group of circadian clock neurons that is so far not characterized in detail. Thanks to a new highly specific split‐Gal4 line, here we ...describe LPNs’ morphology in fine detail, their synaptic connections, daily bimodal expression of neuropeptides, and propose a putative role of this cluster in controlling daily activity and sleep patterns. We found that the three LPNs are heterogeneous. Two of the neurons with similar morphology arborize in the superior medial and lateral protocerebrum and most likely promote sleep. One unique, possibly wakefulness‐promoting, neuron with wider arborizations extends from the superior lateral protocerebrum toward the anterior optic tubercle. Both LPN types exhibit manifold connections with the other circadian clock neurons, especially with those that control the flies’ morning and evening activity (M‐ and E‐neurons, respectively). In addition, they form synaptic connections with neurons of the mushroom bodies, the fan‐shaped body, and with many additional still unidentified neurons. We found that both LPN types rhythmically express three neuropeptides, Allostatin A, Allostatin C, and Diuretic Hormone 31 with maxima in the morning and the evening. The three LPN neuropeptides may, furthermore, signal to the insect hormonal center in the pars intercerebralis and contribute to rhythmic modulation of metabolism, feeding, and reproduction. We discuss our findings in the light of anatomical details gained by the recently published hemibrain of a single female fly on the electron microscopic level and of previous functional studies concerning the LPN.
The authors characterized Drosophila’s lateral posterior neurons (LPNs) that belong to the circadian clock neurons. They demonstrate that the LPNs are well connected to the other clock neurons (s‐LNv, LNd, DN2, DN1p) and to putative wake and sleep centers as well as centers that control temperature preference, metabolism, feeding, and oviposition (e.g., the pars intercerebralis (PI), the mushroom body (MB), and the dorsal fan‐shaped body(dFB)). The LPNs get input from the small ventrolateral clock neurons (s‐LNv) and may signal to the downstream neurons and centers via direct synapses and/or via three neuropeptides (AstA, AstC, and DH31), which they express rhythmically. Furthermore, the authors show that the LPNs are heterogeneous (LPN‐Type 1 and LPN‐Type 2) and appear to have opposing roles on activity and sleep.
Although intimacy is an area characterized by great variety and complexity, both popular and academic discourses have traditionally revolved around a restricted number of associations, of which the ...family, the romantic couple and friendship bonds have resided at the very centre. In this article the author argues that an analytical shift that addresses intimacy in terms of a relational quality – a specific mode of interaction and a particular experience of closeness – instead of a set of relationships, may assist in exploring a wider range of phenomena. This approach is used to study Argentine tango dancing. Ethnographic fieldwork locates the search to the dim-lit dancehalls of Buenos Aires, San Francisco and Stockholm, and accounts for experiences of transitory semi-anonymous attachments. The study concludes tango to be a multifold intimate arena that unveils how complex webs of feelings are entangled with the social organization of attachments.
Ce livre est une représentation du tango où chacun apporte sa touche, son accent, sa gestuelle, exactement comme le danseur sur la piste. Il regroupe des contributions qui réfèrent à des aspects ...culturels du tango, à la construction identitaire des immigrants et à la santé physique et psychique.
Resumo Neste ensaio, a autora escreve sobre os prazeres que sente quando dança, especialmente, tango. Organizou o texto em duas partes. Na primeira, trata de algumas concepções divergentes de se ...encarar o corpo e a alma ou mente, considerando-os nos seus aspectos de conservação e transgressão. Para tanto, partiu das concepções gregas sobre corpo e alma, mencionou o filósofo R. Descartes, recorreu ao também filósofo B. Espinosa, principalmente quando trata das afecções, isto é, das ações e paixões da alma e do corpo. Comentou, ainda, N. Bonder que também se preocupou com estas questões, seguindo os traços de Espinosa. Na segunda parte, dá asas à sua subjetividade mostrando os prazeres que sente ao dançar tango. Palavras-chave: Corpo. Dança. Tango. Tango: attraction and reluctance Abstract In this essay, the author writes about the pleasures she feels when she dances, especially tango. She organized the text in two parts. In the first, it deals with some divergent conceptions of facing the body and the soul or mind, considering them in their aspects of conservation and transgression. For that, he started from the Greek conceptions about body and soul, mentioned the philosopher R. Descartes, he also resorted to the philosopher B. Espinosa, mainly when he deals with the affections, that is, the actions and passions of the soul and the body. The intellectual N. Bonder also commented that he was also concerned with these issues, following Espinosa's traits. In the second, she gives vent to his subjectivity, showing the pleasures she feels when dancing tango. Keywords: Body. Dance. Tango. Tango: atracción y reluctancia Resumen En este ensayo, la autora escribe sobre los placeres que siente cuando baila, especialmente el tango. Organizó el texto en dos partes. En el primero, trata con algunas concepciones divergentes de enfrentar el cuerpo y el alma o la mente, considerándolas en sus aspectos de conservación y transgresión. Para eso partió de las concepciones griegas sobre el cuerpo y el alma, mencionó el filósofo R. Descartes, también recurrió al filósofo B. Espinosa, principalmente cuando se trata de los afectos, es decir, las acciones y pasiones del alma y del cuerpo. El intelectual N. Bonder también comentó que a él también le preocupaban estos temas, siguiendo los rasgos de Espinosa. En el segundo, da alas a su subjetividad mostrando los placeres que siente al bailar tango. Palabras clave: Cuerpo. Danza. Tango.
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