Visible Rhythms

2018 ◽  
pp. 208-230
Author(s):  
Sally Crawford-Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Comparison ◽  
Final Performance ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Tap Dance ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Competitive Nature

The competitive nature of televised dance shows such as So You Think You Can Dance and Got to Dance enables tap dancers to compete against dancers from a range of styles and genres. These shows require set choreography with the focus on a final performance, rather than improvised tap steps devised from tap challenges, which evolved from American tap practitioners competing against each other to demonstrate proficiency in rhythmic interpretation of the music. This chapter discusses the results of movement analysis of the English tap company the Pulse Collective and auditions in Sky 1’s Got to Dance. The analysis is supported by a historical comparison of tap dance in the United States, where the form first evolved, and its emergence in England to examine how tap dancers measure success across multiple contexts, such as informal challenges, theatrical performances, and formal examinations.

Establishment size and employment stability in logging and sawmilling: a comparative analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G Lee ◽  
Penelope Jennings Eckert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Employment Stability ◽  
Establishment Size ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Competitive Nature

Wood products employment stability (defined as year-to-year variation) was examined as a function of establishment size (grouped by number of employees). Small- and medium-sized establishments were consistently found to be more stable than large establishments. Comparison of Washington, Oregon, the United States, and Japan showed that the relationship between establishment size and employment stability was maintained regardless of long-term growth or decline in wood-products employment. Moreover, the smaller wood-products establishments in the United States were found to be more stable than the smaller establishments in other manufacturing industries. Structural stability in employment has been associated with the highly competitive nature of smaller wood-products establishments. Employment stability can best be promoted by policies that support the continued viability of smaller establishments.

Cultural Capital and Transnational Parenting: The Case of Ghanaian Migrants in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cati Coe ◽  
Serah Shani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Parenting Strategies ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
The World ◽  
Transnational Parenting ◽  
Ways Of Being

What does cultural capital mean in a transnational context? In this article, Cati Coe and Serah Shani illustrate through the case of Ghanaian immigrants to the United States that the concept of cultural capital offers many insights into immigrants' parenting strategies, but that it also needs to be refined in several ways to account for the transnational context in which migrants and their children operate. The authors argue that, for many immigrants, the folk model of success means that they seek for their children skills, knowledge, and ways of being in the world that are widely valued in the multiple contexts in which they operate. For Ghanaian migrants, parenting includes using social and institutional resources from Ghana as well as the United States. The multiplicity and contradictions in cultural capital across different social fields complicate their parenting “projects” and raise questions about the reproduction of social class through the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital.

MOVEMENT ANALYSIS ON THE FLY: THE LIMITS AND PROMISE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
David S. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Academic Study

Disciplined academic study of social movements should help us make sense of the movements and politics of our time, but social science often leads us astray. Particularly, the ideal of limiting the frame of analysis in terms of independent and dependent variables and in terms of time routinely neglects the disparate causes and effects of social protest. These challenges are particularly acute when considering contemporaneous campaigns, that is, analysis on the fly. Using the case of the first Women’s March, staged the day after Donald Trump became president of the United States, I elaborate the false steps that social science analysis encourages by identifying patterned errors of exclusion: applying misplaced models; producing unduly narrow fields of action; the difficulty of evaluating practical possibilities; the challenge of assessing institutionalization; and the necessity of truncating time. I conclude with suggestions for continuing to engage in analysis of contemporary movements and ways to avoid egregious errors while doing so.

scholarly journals SHAPE

Cena ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 6-20
Author(s):  
Peggy Hackney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
English Language ◽  
Shape Change ◽  
Movement Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Shape ◽  
Shape Category ◽  
Back Ground ◽  
Analysis System

This article results from presentations at conferences in Germany and the United States in 1993 e 1994, which were later revised. The author discusses the notions of Form and Shape and its possible mean- ings in English language and in Laban / Bartenieff Movement Analysis System considering it as an in- dependent category of analysis. It discusses consen- sus and disagreements in the use of this material as well as its symbols or notation signs in different LMA programs. She presents suggestions for notation and to what differences Modes of Shape Change, Shape Qualities, General Shape Flow Baseline and Postur- al Shape Flow Support based on her teaching expe- rience in LMA programs. She also indicates when to use Shape based analysis. On presenting the back- ground of Shape category in LMA, she makes an invi- tation to deepen discussion as a mode of developing and changing shapes and wisdoms for a future use.Keywords Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis System. Shape. Modes of Shape Change. Shape Qualities. Notation Symbols.

Sjöström, Victor David (1879–1960)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
Silent Film ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Final Performance ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Wild Strawberries

Victor Sjöström (also known as victor Seastrom) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is, with Mauritz Stiller, the joint founding father of Swedish cinema and a pioneer of silent film art. His first worldwide success, Ingeborg Holm (1913), was a drama heralding what would be the hallmarks of his cinema: a strong sense of truth, a refined form of expression (he studied painting in his youth), slow pacing, representations of nature enveloped in violent mysticism, but also a strong sense of realism exemplified by Strejken [The Strike] (1914), for some scenes were shot during a real strike. In 1915 he initiated his golden age: Terje Vigen [A Man There Was] (1916), Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru [The Outlaw and his Wife] (1918) and Ingmarssönerna [Sons of Ingmar] (1918). These works are full of flashbacks, daring camera movements, crossfades and point-of-view shots which denote a free modernist narrative. One of the last films he made before leaving for Hollywood due to the crisis in Swedish cinema was the fantasy drama Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (1921). After a difficult period adapting to the United States, he filmed, true to his style, what is probably his masterpiece: The Wind (1928) with Lillian Gish. Although it was a commercial failure, he discovered his favorite subject: the individual struggle against a hostile universe sustained by love and faith. He never made a ful transition to the talkies, so after some minor movies, he devoted himself to acting. His final performance was as the elderly professor in Ingmar Bergman’s Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries] (1957).

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