scholarly journals Psychosocial, Physical, and Cognitive Perspectives on the Adolescent Dancer

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-93
Author(s):  
Siobhan B. Mitchell ◽  
Lucie Clements
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Psychosocial Perspective ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Cognitive Perspectives ◽  
The Way

Adolescence is a critical period that is heightened for dancers, whether participating recreationally or vocationally. Changes are situated within a highly complex setting and are influenced by many factors, including the dance training environment, personal feelings about changes, and perceptions of changes by significant others. The way in which sub-cultures (such as ballet) construct adolescence is likely to impact upon experiences of, and engagement in, dance, as well as development. The dance context, however, has received little attention in relation to development and maturation from a psychosocial perspective. While the facets of talent that predict engagement or dropout of young dancers have been discussed, little research within dance has viewed the adolescent from a truly developmental perspective. This chapter will explore how contemporary cultural constructions of adolescence apply to the dance context, outline the developmental ‘tasks' of adolescence, and discuss how young dancers navigate these tasks, drawing on psychosocial perspectives.

scholarly journals WANG YANGMING IN BEIJING, 1510–1512: “IF I DO NOT AWAKEN OTHERS, WHO WILL DO SO?”

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Lawrence Israel
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
Wang Yangming ◽  
Philosophical Movement ◽  
The Status ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Do So ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
High Politics ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTAfter being recalled to Beijing in 1510 for evaluation and reassignment in the wake of his two-year exile to Guizhou and his period of service as a magistrate, Wang Yangming was assigned to a succession of posts at the capital that kept him there through 1512. During that short time, he remained disillusioned with the Ming court and high politics and chose to put his energies into fostering a philosophical movement. He believed that by restoring the “way of master-disciple relations and friendship,” he could help propagate the learning of the sages. To that end, he heldjiangxuegatherings with colleagues and friends and carried on an active correspondence. In those venues, Wang Yangming engaged others with his ideas about the goal of sagehood, the obstacles to attaining it, and the methods for overcoming those obstacles. The following article reconstructs this critical period in Wang Yangming's philosophical development and the intellectual movement he sought to foster, as well as the status of his philosophy as of this point in time.

The Indian Competition Act: A Historical and Developmental Perspective

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiju Varghese Mazhuvanchery
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Law And Development ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Indian Act ◽  
Competition Laws ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The relationship between competition law and development continues to be a subject that excites many. The appropriate design of a competition law with developmental dimensions is a contentious issue. With the enactment of the Competition Act 2002, India joined the hundred odd developing countries that have adopted new competition laws over the last two decades. After a hiatus of seven years, substantive provisions of the Act have been notified recently. The Indian Act presents a perfect case study for the developmental dimensions of competition law. This paper explores the events that led to the enactment of the new law in India and analyses its provisions from a developmental perspective. The paper concludes that many of the provisions in the law may come in the way of the realization of developmental goals.

Akram Khan and English National Ballet

2021 ◽  
pp. 542-561
Author(s):  
Graham Watts
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Classical Dance ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Peter Brook ◽  
Physical Theater ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way ◽  
Michael Jackson

This chapter examines the development of Akram Khan’s choreographic pathway as an aggregate of diverse influences, primarily experienced through issues of identity, otherness, and interculturalism. Beginning with the early confusion of juxtaposing classical dance training in kathak and a fascination with Michael Jackson, Khan’s career has progressed, largely through an instinctive opportunism—absorbed from the “formless hunch” philosophy of early mentor, Peter Brook—and an ongoing fascination with the exploratory possibilities of collaboration through the hybrid mixing of dance disciplines to create his own style of mood movement. This process has taken Khan from the classical world of kathak, through contemporary dance, and back into another classical discipline, ballet, with detours along the way into flamenco, the Olympics, and text-based physical theater. The chapter describes the impact of all these experiences on Khan’s contribution to modern ballet, particularly in his association with English National Ballet.

Cultural Factors

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Crowley-Matoka
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This article explores the cultural features of death and dying. Following a broad discussion of death as a problem—materially, socially, and existentially—to which diverse responses have been developed historically and cross-culturally, the concept of culture is defined and explored in terms of the way it has been taken up in the practice of medicine more generally and in discussions about death in particular. Arguing that the “problem of death” in America has increasingly come to be identified as a “problem of culture,” the article takes two classic ethnographies of dying in American hospitals—spaced forty years apart—as a strategic comparative lens through which to examine how key cultural features of death and dying have (and have not) shifted over a particularly critical period in the history of US health care.

London Parishioners in Times of Change: St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, c. 1450–1570

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
CLIVE BURGESS
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
Reasonable Number ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Rapid Shift ◽  
The Way

If St Andrew Hubbard, Eastcheap, was a fairly typical London parish in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, its archive is unusually good. A reasonable number of its parishioners have surviving wills, which is true for the City's parishes generally; but St Andrew Hubbard is extraordinary in preserving churchwardens' accounts in a virtually unbroken run from c. 1450. It thus proves possible to gain a more than usually clear impression of parishioners' beliefs and conduct both for the period preceding the Reformation and then during subsequent upheavals. Scrutiny of testamentary practice either side of c. 1540 indicates a profound and rapid shift in the way in which individuals conceived of and exploited their parish. While, by comparison, churchwardens' accounts suggest institutional continuities, analysis of two mid sixteenth-century initiatives to keep property which had been devised to the parish sheds further welcome light on the reflexes that a community developed to safeguard its interests in this critical period.

scholarly journals Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-47
Author(s):  
Javier Fernández-Sebastián ◽  
Fabio Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
The Way

In this introductory article, the authors argue that major changes in the way we conceive of time and temporality that are taking place today justify the increase of studies, both theoretical and empirical, on shifts in cultural constructions of time. In this context, the authors present four articles written by members of the network Iberconceptos, where a number of time experiences in the Ibero-American world (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal) during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are discussed from a conceptual perspective.

The Grenada Revolution

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
The United States ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Democratic Transformation ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons utilizes the benefit of thirty years’ hindsight to reflect on and critique the Grenada Revolution. This collection of twelve essays brings together in one place the perspectives of scholars, politicians and technocrats drawn from North America and the Caribbean. The volume introduces the reader to historical analyses, insiders’ perspectives, theoretical critiques and prescriptions for the way forward. The principal aim of the volume is to use the Grenada Revolution as the point of departure to revisit a critical period in the post colonial Caribbean experience to explore lessons for Caribbean politics and society. The volume seeks to examine several broad questions: what factors gave rise to the Grenada Revolution on March 13, 1979? Why did the Grenada Revolution implode in October 1983, paving the way for the United States invasion of Grenada? What is the legacy of the Grenada Revolution and the implications of its demise for the Caribbean Left and for party politics in post-revolutionary Grenada? A central contention is that the Grenada Revolution marked a critical juncture in Caribbean development and there are glaring lessons to be learnt from the Grenada experience for democratic transformation and revolutionary change in the twenty-first century.

France and the American Civil War

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéve Sainlaude ◽  
Don H. Doyle
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
American Civil War ◽  
Confederate States Of America ◽  
Global Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive History ◽  
The Way

France’s involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power’s role remain little understood. Here, Stève Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France. Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.

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