I am/we are: Contemporary dance, somatics and new older bodies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzane Weber da Silva ◽  
Mônica Fagundes Dantas ◽  
Eva Schul ◽  
Eduardo Severino ◽  
Robson Lima Duarte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Strength ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Ageing Issue

In this photographic article, we gather five Brazilian choreographers and dancers who are over 50 years old: Eva Schul (72), Robson Duarte (57), Eduardo Severino (57), Suzi Weber (55) and Mônica Dantas (52). Movement and dance photos support a narrative about age, longevity and fragility in contemporary dance. We try to answer some questions: how old is too old to dance? How do we embody time? How do we integrate damage and fragility to our dance? We have been collaborating with Eva Schul since the 1990s, and in parallel, we have been developing our own work. Since the 1980s, Eva Schul has been working with contemporary dance integrating somatic practices. So, this visual essay addresses topics related to the history of somatic practices and contemporary dance in southern Brazil and somatic perspectives on the ageing issue. We intend to give voice and image to those dancers and choreographers that are challenging the perspective of body image in dance, and highlight their older bodies, which can display vulnerability and fragility and, at the same time, strength and desire, ready to fight the battles of art and life. Our vision is that to give voice and image to those dancing bodies matured by the passage of time constitutes a political act.

LATE QUATERNARY GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF RIO GRANGE DO SUL COASTAL PLAIN, SOUTHERN BRAZIL

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 474-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIZ JOSÉ TOMAZELLI ◽  
SÉRGIO REBELLO DILLENBURG ◽  
JORGE ALBERTO VILLWOCK
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
History Of

Anorexia Nervosa and Depression in a Woman Blind since the Age of Nine Months

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 469-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford W. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Food Intake ◽  
Older Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Atypical Presentation ◽  
History Of

A woman aged 58 who has been blind since the age of nine months presented with major depression and a 40 year history of an eating disorder characterized by a restriction of food intake and body disparagement. The case is additional evidence that a specifically visual body image is not essential for the development of anorexia nervosa and supports the view that the concept of body image is unnecessary and unproductive in eating disorders. Greater emphasis should be placed on attitudes and feelings toward the body, and the possibility of an eating disorder should be considered in cases of older women with an atypical presentation.

scholarly journals Herpetofauna from an urban Pampa fragment in southern Brazil: composition, structure and conservation

Check List ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1964
Author(s):  
Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto ◽  
Tângela Denise Perleberg ◽  
Marco Antonio de Freitas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Faunal Composition ◽  
Diversity Patterns ◽  
Reptile Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Structure

Faunistic inventories regarding natural history of amphibians and reptiles are considered scarce and very little is known about their assemblages in urban areas; the Pampas morphoclimatic domain, also known as Uruguayan Savannah or Southern Grasslands, is also poorly known regarding their faunal composition.  Herein, we present a checklist of 16 amphibian and 20 reptile species recorded over a course of four years in the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciências e Tecnologia, Câmpus Pelotas-Visconde da Graça, in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. We also present data on natural history and discuss conservation efforts to be undertaken in the area, in one of the least preserved and known Brazilian morphoclimatic domains, providing insights into urban herpetofaunal diversity patterns and showing the importance of modified areas in its conservation.

The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome in Juvenile Migraine

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-519
Author(s):  
Gerald S. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Family History ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Drug Ingestion ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
History Of

Two children are reported who had recurrent attacks of impairment of time sense, body image, and visual analysis of the environment. These occurred with a clear state of consciousness and in the absence of any evidence of an encephalitic process, seizures, drug ingestion, or psychiatric illness. Both children had recurrent headaches; one was clearly migrainous. There was a family history of migraine in both cases. These children represent examples of the Alice in Wonderland syndrome in juvenile migraine.

Dance at Graduate Universities in the South of Brazil: Experiences and Perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Mônica Dantas ◽  
Sandra Meyer ◽  
Suzane Weber
Keyword(s):  
Educational Program ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
The University

This round table presents an overview of activities developed at higher education institutions with graduate and postgraduate studies in dance in Brazil, especially southern Brazil. Oddly enough, amid the global crisis in early 2008, the Brazilian government launched an educational program that allowed the expansion of courses at the graduate level, including dance, in several public and free universities. As an example of this scenario, we present our experiences in two public universities, UFRGS and UDESC. These dance courses have seen increasing interest and confrontation the presence of artists and researchers seeking to investigate their own work or the work of others. How can we contemplate structuring contents and methods to teach dance in the university context? How does a dance artist associate the experience of dancing to academic research? How does teaching dance force universities to think about embodied knowledge? The situation of teaching dance in Brazilian universities shows that there is still a lot to be done, considering that the creation of these courses is rather new and that dance, in this context, is an area of ongoing consolidation. The struggle to create a greater number of dance courses in universities is part of the discussion of this session. The practice of teaching dance in universities seeks to articulate repertoires of knowledges that belong to different traditions and artistic experiences transversed by reflections about contemporary dance, and to qualify the teacher, the dancer, and the researcher.

scholarly journals A short history of bodily sensation

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Starobinski
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Consciousness ◽  
Short History ◽  
Bodily Sensation ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paul Valéry ◽  
As If

In one of his Cahiers, Paul Valéry has the note. Somatism (heresy of the end of time),Adoration, cult of the machine for living.† Have we come to the end of time? The heresy anticipated by Valéry has almost become the official religion. Everything is related to the body, as if it had just been rediscovered after being long forgotten; body image, body language, body consciousness, liberation of the body are the passwords. Historians, prey to the same infection, have begun inquiring into what previous cultures have done with the body, in way of tattooing, mutilation, celebration all the rituals related to the various bodily functions.2 Past writers from Rabelais to Flaubert are ransacked for evidence, and immediately it becomes apparent that we are far from being the first discoverers of bodily reality. That reality was the first knowledge to enter human understanding: ‘They knew that they were naked’ (Genesis 3.7). From then on, it has impossible to ignore the body.

Anxiety and Body Satisfaction before and Six Months after Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction Surgery

2007 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ornella Montebarocci ◽  
Federica Lo Dato ◽  
Bruno Baldaro ◽  
Paolo Morselli ◽  
Nicolino C. F. Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Breast Reconstruction ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Subjective Perceptions ◽  
Psychological Reaction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Reconstruction Period

As breast reconstruction is an important adjunct after mastectomy to regain physical integrity and also to improve affect, the present aim was to evaluate patients' subjective perceptions of body image during the whole breast reconstruction period and to assess the importance of their psychological reaction in terms of negative affectivity. Participants were 62 women, 43 women ( M age = 46.4, SD = 9.8) who had had mastectomies and 19 healthy women ( M age = 39.9, SD= 13.99). Patients were admitted for surgery at the Hospital S. Orsola in Bologna. Healthy subjects were relatives of the women and students, all with no history of breast pathology. The Body Satisfaction Scale and the State Anxiety Inventory-Y were administered to the two groups before, post, and 6 mo. after surgery. Analysis of scores indicated that during the period of the study, the women with mastectomies reported higher anxiety and also greater dissatisfaction with their body image than the healthy group, even when the breast had been reconstructed. This unexpected finding suggests patients' unrealistic expectations of the breast reconstruction and the surgical outcome.

Hallucinations and Disturbances of Affect, Cognition, and Physical State as a Function of Sensory Deprivation

1967 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 1001-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Schulman ◽  
Milton Richlin ◽  
Sidney Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Sensory Deprivation ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Physical Discomfort ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Deprivation Group ◽  
Affect And Cognition ◽  
History Of

A post-isolation interview was administered to 134 Ss confined for up to 72 hr. under three conditions of sensory deprivation: Auditory-Tactual-Visual (Total Deprivation); Auditory-Tactual; and Auditory. Results indicated that Ss were not severely disorganized by the isolation experience. Total deprivation produced greater disturbance of affect and cognition than the two less severely restricted conditions, while complaints of physical discomfort were greater in the latter two groups. Hallucinations were analyzed in the Total Deprivation Group. The occurrence of visual, auditory, olfactory, kinesthetic, and body-image hallucinations was reported. Confirmation of previous findings for visual sensations was dependent on the criteria for classification. A significant proportion of Ss reported multimodal, complex sensory experiences (CSE). The history of CSE in sensory deprivation and related research was reviewed, and their relation to other types of hallucinations was discussed.

Description of two new species of Leptinopterus Hope (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) with notes on the taxonomy and natural history of the genus

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2172 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
PASCHOAL COELHO GROSSI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Time

Two new species of Leptinopterus are described, both from southern Brazil: L. asketus new species and L. assimilis new species. Two new synonymies are also made; L. rotundicollis Lüderwaldt and L. luederwaldti de Moraes are synonymyzed with L. tibialis (Eschscholtz). The correct identities of two unavailable names are discussed: “L. nitidus ab. lepidus” with L. affinis Parry and “L. elegans ab. catharinensis” with L. gracilis Boileau. For the first time, some natural history notes for five species of Leptinopterus are reported and some information on their behavior is also given. The identity of Leptinopterus gracilis is correctly determined after an examination of a picture of the holotype.

Taxonomy and Natural History of Strumigenys thaxteri Wheeler and Strumigenys reticeps (Kempf) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4438 (1) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN E. LATTKE ◽  
THIAGO S. R. DA SILVA ◽  
THIBAUT DELSINNE
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Traits ◽  
Dense Body ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
The West ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Resolution Images

We report finding Strumigenys thaxteri Wheeler in the Amazonian foothills of southeastern Ecuador, over 2000 km to the west of previously known records for the species in Trinidad and Guyana. Field observations suggest it is a sit and wait ambush predator that captures insects that alight on the vegetation upon which they position themselves. Once prey is subdued they descend with it to ground level, where they presumably nest. Their massive mandibles, robust claws, dense body cover of long silky hairs, and sting may all contribute to detecting, trapping, and subduing larger sized, flying prey. This type of predation is hitherto unreported for the genus. Strumigenys reticeps (Kempf), an apparently closely related species from southern Brazil, may share the same behavior but its key morphological traits are of a lesser degree of development than in S. thaxteri. Both species are redescribed and their morphological variability is discussed. High resolution images of both species are provided. The more frequent use of vegetation beating for ant-collecting is urged. Strumigenys lojanensis Lattke & Aguirre is synonymized as a junior synonym of S. onorei Baroni Urbani & De Andrade. 

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