Spectacles of Ethnicities

Author(s):  
Miriam Phillips

Performing arts festivals featuring artists representing distinct world dance traditions have proliferated in American cities since the 1980s. Often arranged in a potpourri format, these performances demonstrate a city’s multicultural make-up and proclaim dance to show unity between diverse populations. However, what happens when these dances each with distinct production and performance standards get placed with other dances onto a stage dominated by Western theatrical aesthetics? How do culturally specific production values become skewed and how do power relations play out when people outside the cultures represented produce the performances? Using one of America’s more prominent festivals, The San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival as a case study, this chapter explores issues around the politics of representation and highlights some misconceptions about diversity that are presumed in these types of multicultural spectacles. The chapter also considers possible methods to create more culturally appropriate world dance events.

Author(s):  
Jan Söffner

This chapter presents a case study for the use of enactivist phenomenology as a paradigm for Cultural Analysis and Renaissance Studies. It begins by describing a mask used in commedia dell’arte, first as a simple object and then as embedded in an acting praxis. The focus then turns to Renaissance cultures of the performing arts, fiction, and the constitution of subjectivity. Finally, the chapter considers what the mask has to say about sixteenth-century Italy, comparing the outcomes of this analysis with those of more conventional approaches, which are mostly focused on Renaissance humanism. The line of argumentation follows a bottom-up methodology based on enactivist assumptions. By the end the chapter will render the adopted approach theoretically explicit and offer closing remarks about the use of enactivist phenomenology for cultural analysis, by comparing it with neighbouring theories and methods in Cultural Studies (especially Praxeology, Actor-Network-Theory, studies on Material Cultures, and Performance Studies).


1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon Burton

Sport psychologists believe that contemporary sport’s pervasive preoccupation with winning may actually be responsible for athletes’ anxiety, motivation, and self-confidence problems. Winning is a goal that lacks the flexibility and control necessary for athletes to (a) achieve consistent success and (b) take credit for success. Martens and Burton (1982) concluded that performance goals (PGs) based on attaining personal performance standards offer the flexibility and control needed to develop high perceived ability and performance. Thus the purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to evaluate whether a goal setting training (GST) program could teach athletes to set appropriate PGs, and (b) to assess the impact of the GST program on the perceived ability, competitive cognitions, and performance of collegiate swimmers. A collegiate swim team (N=30) participated in a season-long GST program, and program effects were systematically evaluated with a multimethod approach using interteam, intrateam, and case study data. Interteam and case study data generally supported both predictions. Intrateam analyses revealed that high-accuracy GST swimmers demonstrated more optimal cognitions and performance than low-accuracy teammates, suggesting that goal setting skill mediated GST effectiveness.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
Narelle Yeo ◽  
◽  
Jennifer Rowley ◽  

his study explores the utility of employing a student-created experiential narrative ePortfolio as a multimodal tool for reflective practice in WIL. It does so by examining a case study situated within the performing arts, where WIL discourses are rarely adopted, and few examples are present in the literature. This paper introduces a circular mentoring framework that extends Kolb’s experiential learning model, whereby learning is facilitated through the interchange of roles through rehearsal and reflection. In this study, participants prepared and performed an opera in a professional venue over a five-day period of intense creative studio work. The 2017 and 2018 Inclusion Project is an innovative teaching and learning opportunity that offered authentic industry-based experience to undergraduate music students in a closely monitored, non-placement WIL setting. Participants (n=18) undertaking a semester long elective, reported their experience through online journaling in an ePortfolio allowing them to create narrative responses. A qualitative analysis using narrative inquiry on the ePortfolio reflections indicated a direct benefit for student’s career readiness as creative artists.


2014 ◽  
Vol 153 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
David Carlin

This article discusses the phenomenon of the digital archive, in the context of performance practice and studies, as a potential liminal performance space blurring the boundaries between archive and repertoire (Taylor 2003). It takes the Circus Oz Living Archive as a case study to examine the opportunities and challenges facing cultural organisations wanting to take charge of the multimodal telling of their own histories, as digital technologies impact on practices of remembrance, archiving and performance in the cultural sector. The governing metaphor of the archive shifts from the spatial – a site of recorded memory – to the temporal – an unfolding event of memory. This presents a great challenge for a performing arts company like Circus Oz, which already faces the task of delivering its live show to audiences around the world. How does such a company think through the many issues arising in relation to adding this new digital performance to its repertoire?


1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (55) ◽  
pp. 210-219
Author(s):  
Ian Watson

When the ‘action’ at major news events is observed over days or weeks by television cameras, how far does the medium become, whether knowingly or not, a participant and shaper in the action it observes? How far does the action itself become, to some degree, a performance before the cameras? While not ignoring either the moral or practical implications of such questions, lan Watson sets out primarily to analyze the ‘frame’ of television news broadcasting, and to consider the events within that frame as elements of performance. He considers the six days of rioting in Los Angeles in 1992, sparked by the acquittal of police officers charged with the beating of Rodney King – itself caught on camera – as a case study, in which the often ignored role of the observer, whether the news anchor-man in the studio or the audience watching at home, comes in for corrective scrutiny. He concludes that in the ‘mediated present’ of the news event on television, the medium is indeed as much a producer as a reporter of an action which is pervasively shaped by its presence. An Advisory Editor and regular contributor to New Theatre Quarterly, lan Watson teaches in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Rutgers, where he is Co-ordinator of the Theatre and Television Programs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Hana Yudiawati

Indonesia merupakan negara yang kaya akan budaya dan alamnya. Perkembangan budaya di Indonesia sangatlah beragam, mulai dari rumah adat, upacara adat, tarian, lagu, musik, dan bentuk seni pertunjukan lainnya, yang menampilkan keunikan masing-masing nilai budaya setempat. Seperti yang akan diuraikan di sini adalah salah satu alat musik Indonesia yaitu angklung. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui manajemen pelestarian angklung dan sebagai studi kasus penelitiannya adalah musik angklung yang dikembangkan dan dilestarikan di sanggar seni Saung Udjo Bandung, yang merupakan pusat pelestarian dan pertunjukan kebudayaan tradisional Sunda. Untuk metode yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif yaitu metode penelitian yang memanfaatkan data untuk dijabarkan sesuai data yang dilihat dan terjadi di lapangan. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara observasi langsung, wawancara, dan studi literatur. Hasil analisis menghasilkan beragam bentuk manajemen pelestarian, yaitu: Di bidang produksi, angklung yang masih tetap dipertahankan pembuatan angklung oleh para perajin secara manual dengan menggunakan tangan; Di bidang lahan, masih memanfaatkan lahan bambu yang secara terus-menerus perlu menjaga tata cara dan teknik penebangannya sehingga tidak dianggap merusak lahan bambu yang ada; Di bidang pertunjukan, diselenggarakan kegiatan dan event pertunjukan angklung di berbagai daerah; Di bidang pendidikan, masuknya angklung pada pembelajaran ekstrakurikuler di sekolah, baik di tingkat Taman Kanak-kanak sampai Perguruan Tinggi. Terwujudnya pelestarian tentu diperlukan kolaborasi yang tepat dari pihak pemerintah maupun masyarakat Indonesia dan peran serta pemerhati seni perlu sejalan dalam menjaga pelestarian angklung. Conservation Management of Angklung as Intangible Cultural Heritage ABSTRACT Indonesia is a country rich in culture and nature. The development of culture in Indonesia is very diverse, ranging from traditional houses, traditional ceremonies, dances, songs, music, and other forms of performing arts, which show the uniqueness of each local cultural value. As will be described here is one of the Indonesian musical instruments, namely the angklung. This study aims to determine the management of angklung preservation. As a case study, the research is angklung music developed and preserved in the Saung Udjo Bandung art studio, a center for the preservation and performance of Sundanese traditional culture. The method used is a qualitative descriptive method, namely a research method that utilizes data to be described according to the data seen and occurs in the field. Data collection is done by direct observation, interviews, and literature studies. The results of the analysis resulted in various forms of conservation management, namely: In the field of angklung production, the craftsmen still made angklung by hand; In the field of land, it is still utilizing bamboo land which continuously needs to maintain the methods and techniques of cutting so that it is not considered as damaging the existing bamboo land; In the field of performances, angklung performance activities and events are held in various regions; In the field of education, the inclusion of angklung in extracurricular learning in schools, both at Kindergarten to College levels. The realization of conservation certainly requires proper collaboration from the government and the Indonesian people. The participation of art observers needs to be in line with maintaining the preservation of angklung.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Norol Hamiza Zamzuri ◽  
Khairil Wahidin Awang ◽  
Yuhanis Abdul Aziz ◽  
Zaiton Samdin

The growth of the event sector is underpinned by the demand of organizing a business event.  Thus, it leads to an increase in economic and social impact. However, the problems from the growth of this sector potentially results from the use of several event materials, transportation and infrastructure development.  Organizing a green event is seen as one of the strategies to reduce the environmental impact.  Therefore, the aim of this paper is to explore the issues involved throughout the process of greening an event by applying Mair and Jago Model.  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with event managers from six Malaysia business event companies that encourage green practices during their event.  Findings suggest that impact, initiative, support and performance motivates event organizers in organizing a green event.  It has also been found that knowledge, resources and behaviour are the barriers faced by event organizers throughout the process of organizing a green event.  Based on the findings it appears that two important factors have emerged from the data collection and analysis that showed a deviation from the Mair and Jago Model, namely “impact” for the motivation element and “support” for the barrier element.  The main limitation of this study was the scope of the study; as it only focuses on business events.  However, as the main purpose of this study is to explore the issues of organizing a green event, it has been found that there are other issues need to be explored in other contexts and geographical area.  Apart from this, as this is a case study, it can only replicate according to the circumstances of this case study. However, this study can be generalized in terms of the theory that has emerged from it.  It is suggested that further research should explore more issues in other contexts and geographical areas. 


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