Opera, devising and community: A creative and pedagogical methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Harries
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Writing Composition ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Opera Production

Create An Opera! was a fortnightly devising workshop led by the author at Theatre Delicatessen studios in London in 2017–20. It was free to the general public and attracted participants including both experienced and inexperienced performance practitioners. It aimed to create a safe, inclusive environment for experimentation in writing, composition and collaborative performance. This initiative arose from the author’s interest in challenging the sociopolitical traditions and hierarchical infrastructures associated with opera production. Inspired by the ethos of devised theatre, the workshops created a space for participants to be involved in both creative and performance aspects, working individually and collaboratively. This article presents the pedagogical and creative methodologies informing the delivery of the workshops, focusing on inclusion, collaboration and independent creativity.

scholarly journals Towards a New Pacific Theatre: Practice‐Led Enquiry into a Model of Theatre Making that Relates  to the Geography, Cultures and Spiritual Values of  Aotearoa/New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Bert Van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Devised Theatre ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Intercultural Performance ◽  
Time Space ◽  
And Performance

<p>This practice‐led research enquiry sets out to develop and test a model of theatre practice that relates to the unique geographic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of Aotearoa/New Zealand. In this practice, actors are connected with their body and the earth (they have feet), archetypal qualities inherent in nature and culture are incorporated into training and performance (return of the gods), a sense of adventure and risk‐taking is emphasized, and the practice relates to the multiple cultures and communities of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presence, defined as the ability to be sensorially alive in the moment, and site‐specific performance, a creative response to locality, emerged as two of the key strategies to connect with self, other and the environment.  By investigating selected principles, strategies and values from the indigenous, pre‐European, Māori performing arts (whare tapere), devised theatre, the Michael Chekhov technique, and Japanese Noh theatre, an intercultural approach to site specific theatre evolved that interweaves the four pathways of collaboration, connection, exploration and transformation and their corresponding values. After considering the political and ethical issues of intercultural performance a number of principles to guide the process of intercultural exchange were formulated and tested. A vital component of this study was the creative development and performance of Ex_isle of Strangers – a site‐specific work developed in response to the tangible and intangible dimensions of Matiu/Somes Island. The research generated moments of practice that investigated the creative potential of residential devising processes and the transformative value of audience mobility in performances that involve physical and metaphorical journeying. These moments provided the participants (performers and spectators) time, space and opportunity to interact with one another and with the site they occupied, thus significantly increasing their level of physical and mental engagement with the work.</p>

scholarly journals Much Louder Than I Am: A Musical Collaborative Autoethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472097875
Author(s):  
David Carless ◽  
Kitrina Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Unique Event ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
A Performance

One challenge of performative research is that a performance is a one-time unique event. It cannot be preserved or returned to in its own form. Here, we offer a more durable artifact to preserve some aspects of the collaborative performance autoethnography we performed at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in 2018. We write to communicate not only what we performed during the session but also our sentiments concerning singing and playing music as autoethnography. Because so often in our work we use songs, songwriting, music, and performance; we propose rhythm, melody, and harmony as alternative acts of autoethnographic collaboration. In this way of doing autoethnography, it may be that no words are spoken. But the burden of work is shared. This is the kind of collaboration we seek … in the here and now.

scholarly journals The Role of Human Resource Management in Employee Motivation and Performance-An Overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
Hassan Elsan Mansaray
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
General Public ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Expectancy Theory ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Role Occupation

This paper discusses the link between motivation and performance, and established what makes motivation to have a central role in getting high performances from employees in organizations. It was revealed from the review that there are several motivational theories used by employers at different situations when they want their employees to highly perform. As motivation is to influence employees to perform, hence; performance is the evaluation with respect to acknowledged tasks, objectives, goal line and rational anticipations linked with a role, occupation in an organization. This paper has looked at some of these theories that have been proven and accepted by the general public. They comprise Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, McGregor’s theories x and y, McClelland’s theory of learned needs, Alderfer’s ERG theory, Herzberg’s two-factor theory, Vroom’s expectancy theory and different types of motivation, such as intrinsic and extrinsic. It is evident from the literature reviewed that all theories were established on some experimentations or observations, as a result they are just written ends about a tested situation. Though circumstances can be comparable, they will perhaps by no means be the same. Also, studies have showed that highly motivated employees that are productive and innovative can lead the organization to success through the achievement of its desired results.

scholarly journals The BlipVert Method

Intonations ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
William Northlich
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
General Public ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Acoustic Instruments ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
And Performance

The confluence of composition and performance is a compelling phenomenon which confronts many 21st century electronic music artists, brought about primarily through an independent “DiY” ethos to creativity and the ubiquity of advanced musical, and non-musical, technology. Techniques of software programming, improvisation, reconstitution of electric and acoustic instruments, sampling, and manipulation of audio in a live setting (to name a few) may all find a place in an artist’s methodology regardless of style. It may be even be said that the techniques employed by an artist delineate the style itself, e.g. “controllerism,” “turntablism,” “live PA,” etc. The following paper offers an in-depth structural analysis of the composition and performance fundamentals of BlipVert, a pseudonym under which I have been presenting electronic music to the general public for almost two decades. The BlipVert composition “New Choomish,” from BlipVert’s 2010 release “Quantumbuster Now” (Eat Concrete Records, NL), is examined as a construct which manifests an expressive faculty in both live and studio environments, consequently demonstrating a profoundly synthesized framework of sonic and gestural principles. Keywords: composition, performance, improvisation, movement, building-blocks, Northlich, BlipVert, New Choomish

scholarly journals Miskâsowin—Returning to the Body, Remembering What Keeps Us Alive

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Moe Clark ◽  
Kenna Aviles-Betel ◽  
Catherine Richardson ◽  
Zeina Allouche
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Body ◽  
Plains Cree ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Healing Art ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Work Contexts

The nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree language) Cree word, miskâsowin, relates to the sacred teachings of Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan as a concept pertaining to wellness of “finding one’s sense of belonging”—a process integral in the aftermath of colonial disruption. Métis educator and performance artist Moe Clark offers an approach to healing and well-being, which is imparted through movement, flux and through musical and performance-based engagement. Moe works with tools of embodiment in performance and circle work contexts, including song creation, collaborative performance, participatory youth expression and land-based projects as healing art. She shares her process for re-animating these relationships to land, human kin, and other-than-human kin through breath-work, creative practice and relationality as part of a path to wholeness. The authors document Moe’s approach to supporting the identity, growth, healing and transformation of others.

scholarly journals Production and Performance of Triploid Oysters for Aquaculture

EDIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiping Yang ◽  
Natalie Simon ◽  
Leslie N. Sturmer
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Ploidy Determination ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Oyster Aquaculture ◽  
Aquaculture Industry ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Aquatic Sciences ◽  
Oyster Industry

This 9-page fact sheet written by Huiping Yang, Natalie Simon, and Leslie Sturmer and published by the Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences of the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation focused on basic aspects of triploid oyster aquaculture, including the general oyster aquaculture industry, the approaches for triploid induction, performance of triploids, and correlated ploidy determination to convey basic knowledge of triploid oyster aquaculture to the oyster industry and the general public. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa208

Effie Ober and the Boston Ideal Opera Company, 1879–1885

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K. Preston
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
English Language ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Comic Opera ◽  
New Name ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter focuses on the Boston Ideal Opera Company, a comic opera troupe. Its founder, Effie Hinckley Ober, was not a performer, but a businesswoman who owned one of the first musical management firms in the country. Her success in a male-dominated business provides valuable insight into how an ambitious and enterprising woman could navigate a distinctly competitive, virile world in the post-Civil War American social landscape. This chapter covers the Boston Ideals only during the Ober period (1879–1885) and illustrates techniques of management, a hitherto unknown relationship between opera production and the emergence of lyceum bureaus, and performance practice. The company mounted both operettas (Gilbert and Sullivan) and some of the standard works that had been performed by English-language troupes for decades; after Ober’s retirement it continued until 1904 under a new name (the Bostonians) and new management.

scholarly journals Acting the Intangible: Hints of Politeness in Non-Verbal Form

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Jumanto Jumanto ◽  
Sarif Syamsu Rizal ◽  
Raden Arief Nugroho
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Verbal Form ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Performance

This review paper has explored politeness in non-verbal form to come to hints for indicating the ideology. Politeness in non-verbal form is researched by reviewing verbal politeness theories through interpretive techniques, and then the data in form of interpreted hints based on the reviews are analyzed by employing a coding technique. The six non-verbal hints of politeness found out based on the theoretical reviews are silence for politeness, gestures for politeness, gifts for politeness, observance of norms, rules, and regulations for politeness, adjusted behavior for politeness, and performance for politeness. The hints expectedly provide a sufficient account for non-verbal politeness in interactions or communication between a speaker and a hearer. The findings also encourage promoting harmony among speakers of languages in non-verbal interactions or communication, especially in formal situations or in the general public. The hints are hopefully also worth considering in the context of English language teaching and learning across languages and cultures in the world.

Meta-analysis of Collaboration and Performance: Moderating Tests of Sectoral Differences in Collaborative Performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lee ◽  
Chia Ko Hung
Keyword(s):  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
Sectoral Differences ◽  
Policy Fields ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Public Collaboration

Abstract Over the past few decades, collaboration has flourished in the public administration and policy fields as a rational means to solve complex issues and improve public service performance. Through a meta-analysis of 26 studies with 251 effect sizes, this investigation provides novel perspectives for understanding the effects of different collaborative partnerships on performance. To test these mechanisms, we applied various social science theories, such as institutional theory, resource dependence theory, a resource-based view, and transaction cost theories. Our findings indicate that the overall effect of collaborative performance is positive and significant. Moreover, meta-regression results show that public–public collaboration results in better performance than public–nonprofit or public–business collaboration, while involving all three entity types in collaborative efforts yields similar outcomes to public–public collaboration. Several implications of these findings are outlined for researchers and practitioners.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Motivasi terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Pada Toko Tugu Elektronik Jambi

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Azizah Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
General Public ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Linear Regression Equation ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Positive Linear Relationship ◽  
Value Determination ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Variable Performance

Stores an electronic Monument Jambi aims specifically carry out the process of buying and selling electronic goods to the general public. Stores an electronic Monument Jambi consists of Chairman, cashier, sales, warehouse and employee sections. Simple linear regression equation using SPSS 20 retrieved data equation y = 7.057 + 1, 061X. The coefficient of correlation between motivation on performance (X) (Y) is 44.2% pales r > 0 has occurred positive linear relationship. The results of hypothesis testing then the retrieved value (determination) = r2 of 0.196 figures stated that the motivation was able to explain variable variable performance of 19.6% on the contrary 80.4% by other outside variable variables researched. Employee performance and motivation of working in a store an electronic Monument Jambi high. The leadership can provide motivation to employees of the store an electronic Monument Jambi to improve the performance of employees considering the existence of considerable influence among the motivation and performance of employees, and encourage employees to be able to demonstrate the ability himself in a job better and the leadership should be able to also appreciate the work of employees who have done well.

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