Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai (What Is behind the Stardom)?

Dancing Women ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Usha Iyer
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
Labor Networks ◽  
Hindi Film

With her vigorously libidinous dancing, her infamous “jhatkas and matkas,” Madhuri Dixit, the leading Hindi actress of the late 1980s and the 1990s, initiated a whole new movement vocabulary for the Hindi film heroine. Dixit’s moves carried the unmistakable imprint of the choreographer who led her to stardom, Saroj Khan. With her six-decade-long career, Khan constitutes a remarkable, embodied archive of Bombay cinema’s industrial practices in relation to dance performance and choreography. Chapter 5 delves into Khan and Dixit’s co-choreography of a new style of movement, reading choreography as an archival-corporeal system of transmission and transformation that articulates body cultures, industrial systems, and labor networks. A focus on training, rehearsal, and collaboration foregrounds the creative processes in their co-choreography that produced new techniques of the body, which both women continue to build on through richly intermedial careers in film, reality TV dance shows, and on web platforms.

scholarly journals Haptic Thinking and Experience through Collective Artistic Research

POIÉSIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (34) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Dasha Lavrennikova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Physical Theater ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Reflection ◽  
Artistic Research

This article offers a theoretical reflection and practical proposals from the HeterotRópico artistic laboratory, a nomadic laboratory - where we are investigating dance, performance, physical theater, in conjunction with other diverse social technologies. They bring tools to activate collective practices developed within open creative processes. We will focus on the seminar lab I have proposed at the Masters in Arts Practice and Visual Culture 2018-2019 in Madrid, bringing together an intercultural group of artists and thinkers of around practices of trans-disciplinary arts. Artistic laboratories, in the diverse formats that they are defined today, aim to activate a field of subjectivities and corporeality, explored and co-produced in their uniqueness during the artistic process.

scholarly journals Beyond Discipline: Evolving Design Practice and Design Education in the Twenty-First Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Furniss
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Design Education ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk

Since 2000, design practice in the UK has changed dramatically. Boundaries between design disciplines have dissolved, and many contemporary design studios now defy classification. These studios are reconfiguring the design landscape, yet a uni-disciplinary structure still dominates undergraduate education. This is creating a disconnection between practice and education and posing critical questions for the current design education system. This article outlines the findings of a PhD research study exploring this disconnection, and although situated within the UK, the findings have international relevance. An initial scoping exercise draws on interviews with leading commentators from the UK design sector, examining the evolution of design practice over the past 10 years, and possible future directions for undergraduate education. Findings highlight that UK policy for creative education has placed undergraduate design courses in potential crisis. Arguably, the current university system for design education is outdated. It is now necessary to redefine the skills and processes twenty-first-century designers need. The body of the research is situated within five internationally renowned creative studios which defy classification. In-depth ethnographic studies cross-analyse the creative processes of these studios and their views on education. Findings identify key components of each studio’s processes, while also exploring studio members’ educational experiences, and reflections on future implications for pedagogy. This article argues that this growing disconnect between practice and education calls for existing pedagogic models to be challenged, proposes alternative approaches and highlights the need for policymakers, practitioners and educators to work together to best prepare young designers to meet today’s challenges.

Democratising Moves: Power, Agency and the Body

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Stacey Prickett
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
American Values ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Masses

Abstract Recently, the word ’democracy’ has been featured prominently in the press, with calls to restore it, save it from ominous threats and expose challenges to its principles, all predicated on an assumed understanding of the concept. Many of the roots of today’s democracies reach back to the 18th century revolutions in the pre-U.S. American colonies and France, which continue to reinforce Euro-American values and ideologies of nation. The transfer of power remains a defining principle, shifting control from elites to the masses. How do the principles that inspired democratic revolutions relate to the ballot-box versions of democracy today? This article considers contemporary complexities of democracy as a concept, offering examples of how it is embodied through iconography, gestures of defiance and civil disobedience. Democratic values are explored in more formal choreography and in creative processes that establish associations with political agency.

Conclusion

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
High Throughput ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The Body ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Data Set ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Scientific Text ◽  
Mining Methods

The genomics era has presented many new high throughput experimental modalities that are capable of producing large amounts of data on comprehensive sets of genes. In time there will certainly be many more new techniques that explore new avenues in biology. In any case, textual analysis will be an important aspect of the analysis. The body of the peer-reviewed scientific text represents all of our accomplishments in biology, and it plays a critical role in hypothesizing and interpreting any data set. To altogether ignore it is tantamount to reinventing the wheel with each analysis. The volume of relevant literature approaches proportions where it is all but impossible to manually search through all of it. Instead we must often rely on automated text mining methods to access the literature efficiently and effectively. The methods we present in this book provide an introduction to the avenues that one can employ to include text in a meaningful way in the analysis of these functional genomics data sets. They serve as a complement to the statistical methods such as classification and clustering that are commonly employed to analyze data sets. We are hopeful that this book will serve to encourage the reader to utilize and further develop text mining in their own analyses.

scholarly journals Representing Soldiers to Soldiers Through Dance: Authenticity, Theatricality, and Witnessing the Pain of Others

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Reason
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Military Experience ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
The Military

Representations of war recur throughout art, whether celebrating the glories and heroism of conflict, or depicting its horrors and follies. This paper uses qualitative audience research to examine soldiers' own responses to the representation of soldiers in choreographer Rosie Kay's dance performance 5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline. This article explores how for military audiences the satisfaction of an internalized sense of authenticity allowed them to accept the performance as a legitimate representation; at the same time the presentation of war in a choreographic language meant that the performance was also abstracted, with theatrical and stylized elements that were far from authentic as a documentary. This paper proposes that it was the combination of authenticity with theatricality that generated empathetic investment and made 5 Soldiers an articulate witness to the military experience.

Opening the mind through the body: The effects of posture on creative processes

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 20-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Rita Andolfi ◽  
Chiara Di Nuzzo ◽  
Alessandro Antonietti
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Mind

scholarly journals Gagmonization of the musculo-fascial system of young children with spastic syndrome of motor disorders

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-2016
Author(s):  
Nikolai Moga
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Motor Disorders ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Lateral Lines ◽  
Wave Technique ◽  
Vibration Wave ◽  
Type Motor

The article discusses in detail the third conditional correctional vector of the general author’s rehabilitation strategy for young children with spastic syndrome of motor disorders – the methodological possibilities of harmonizing their musculo-fascial system. Previously, the state of the main paired myofascial lines was analyzed through the prism of spastic syndrome: the superficial frontal line, the superficial posterior line, two lateral lines, two spiral lines, two paired lines of hands. The basis for the correction of the state of muscle imbalance against the background of the existing spastic syndrome was taken diagonal fascial gymnastics (DFG) by Pac-Jee Woo, which harmonizes the state of the muscles – the antagonist. The main techniques of this technique are alternate stretching of the muscles, their compression, and then twisting along diagonal directions in different segments of the body when alternating with the central, middle directions of corrective actions. Such an approach resembles spiraling movements and is a universal structural model for the development of life. The basic methodological provisions of the FGD were adapted in accordance with the solution of the problems of correction of spastic-type motor disorders in young children, based on bonding techniques and the necessary theatricalization of the correction process. It is this unique combination that makes it possible to largely overcome the fear of bodily manipulations and pain that exists in children of this age. Additionally, vibration-wave technique exercises with muscles were applied. With the help of an adapted version of the diagonal fascial gymnastics, it is possible to achieve a higher degree of efficiency in correcting existing motor disorders of the spastic type. Prospects for the study of this problem are in line with the search for new techniques for adapting DFG to physical rehabilitation of young children in combination with a physical bonding background and on the basis of emotional and energetic saturation of motor and gaming activities.

scholarly journals Hibriditas Multidimensional: Studi Kasus Karya Musik Komunitas Badan Gila

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Komang Sudirga
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Art World ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Art Community

This paper wants to show that the Komunitas Bada Gila (or Crazy Body Community) is an art community in Telepud Village, Tegalalang District, Gianyar Regency. This research is directed to answer questions related to the existence, aesthetic foundation, and creative processes that are behind the show. To answer these qualitative questions, this study applies various techniques and procedures for collecting data in the form of interviews and observations. I find that this community was founded in 2008 by 16 artists who have a commitment to devote their lives in the ecosystem of the art world. The idea to build this art community began with the Final Project of Artwork by Wayan Sutapa, which was inspired by genjek, the song that was played while drinking wine. Initially Sutapa aims to change the perception of traditional art which is considered as the 'art of the drunk' by placing it in a new context. However, instead of changing these negative perceptions, the works of the community have opened the possibility of expanding the creativity of kecak and genjek art into a more attractive form with the body as the medium. The creative works of the community reaffirm that Balinese society is open and a necessity for local-global struggle and association in Bali.

scholarly journals PROPER BREATHING IMPORTANCE IN CLASSICAL AND MODERN DANCE TRAINING

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Sandra Vītola
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Modern Dance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Correct Usage ◽  
Movement Performance

Based on the theoretical ideas of scholars in the field of dance, the article analyses the significance of correct breathing and its usage in movement performance in classical and modern dance acquisition. The most important condition for dancers is the daily workout, which develops an understanding of basic components of movements, one of the most significant being correct breathing. Application of correct breathing facilitates a comprehension among dancers of the possibilities of the body – the amplitude and quality of performed movements, as well as the ability to control the strength necessary for movement performance. This article aims to analyse the meaning of correct breathing and to justify its use among dancers acquiring classical and modern dance. The article makes use of the theoretical research method – characterising differences between classical and modern dance acquisition, analysing breathing and its correct usage during a dance performance.

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