Crossing literal and conceptual borders: Nepantla practices of the borderlands in performance projects by Guillermo Gomez-Peña

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Zetterman
Keyword(s):  
Performance Projects

Reconnecting Dance and Physical Education through Dance Science

2022 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melonie B. Murray ◽  
Steven Ross Murray
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Performance Projects

This article traces the development of dance as an academic discipline from its infancy in physical education programs to its present state, noting the significance of the burgeoning field of dance science and how it is a catalyst for the reconnecting of dance to physical education. The academic discipline of dance originated in the early 20th century in American academe, particularly in women’s physical education programs. By the 1920s, dance emerged as a discrete discipline with Margaret H’Doubler’s founding of the first baccalaureate degree in dance at the University of Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the academic discipline of dance had shifted from its original mission of movement education for everyone to focus more on professional dance training for highly skilled performers. This philosophical shift saw many dance programs move from homes in physical education to the fine arts. During this time, dance also saw an increasing disciplinary emphasis on choreographic and performance projects, a trend still evident today. Dance science began to develop as an academic field in the early 1980s, and shortly after publications and conferences in the area were born. The professional association the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science was founded in 1990. With dance science’s emergence, dance and physical education began to realign, albeit often in departments of kinesiology. Today, with the development of dance science as a burgeoning field, dance and kinesiology are coming full circle, rejoining through their historical roots.

Vicarious gestures of participation

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Sruti Bala
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
As If

Chapter IV follows two conceptually inspired performance projects by the Amsterdam-based Lebanese artist Lina Issa, Where We Are Not (2009) and If I Could Take Your Place? (2010 – ongoing). These works explore the question of what it means to take someone else’s place, to participate in someone’s life by doing something on their behalf, in the mode of ‘as if’. By analysing how this vicarious participation unfolds, the chapter foregrounds the spectatorial parameters of participation. The theorization of participation calls for an interweaving of the aesthetic with the social or political. Issa’s playful performances of standing in for others point to larger questions of what it means to participate in collective processes of imagining selfhood. The chapter suggests that the solidarity in the gesture of vicarious participation lies not so much in recognizing the so-called ‘other’ or in celebrating differences, but rather in being willing to dispossess oneself of the fixity of one’s ideas of the self, a potentially transformative gesture.

scholarly journals Delivering Green Buildings: Process Improvements for Sustainable Construction

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Horman ◽  
David R Riley ◽  
Anthony R Lapinski ◽  
Sinem Korkmaz ◽  
Michael H Pulaski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Sustainable Construction ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Systematic Methodology ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Lean And Green ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
High Performance Buildings ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
Initial Results

The demand for high performance “green” or “sustainable” buildings is rapidly becoming the most significant trend in the building industry. As the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry develops the strategies and technologies for these projects, an increased emphasis must be placed on the processes and competencies required to deliver high performance buildings. This paper defines an emerging research and education program at Penn State called the Lean and Green Initiative. Focused on understanding all aspects of the delivery of high performance projects, this program is underpinned by established process-based theories and structured around a systematic methodology designed to minimize waste, maximize value, and reduce cost. Current research and educational activities are described in the paper including nine primary research thrusts and their respective goals. Initial results of each research thrust are also provided, providing an early look at the benefits of a process improvement approach to the delivery of high performance buildings.

scholarly journals Complicating leadership: choral conducting training through movement theatre practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Daniel Galbreath ◽  
Gavin Thatcher
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Physical Performance ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Vocal Performance ◽  
Choral Conducting ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Philosophical Orientation ◽  
Direct Physical Contact ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
Training Practice

Conductors are typically presumed to possess the physical, interpretative control in choral performance. Questioning that presumption, this article explores how student conductors might be encouraged to engage physically with the musical sound – and sounding bodies – of a choir. It argues that singers’ vocal performance directly and fruitfully impacts on a conductor’s gestural leadership. Borrowing techniques from established physical/movement-based performance and theatre, it explores how conductors might act as the embodied nexus of the poietic and esthesic dimensions of interpretation (Nattiez, 1990), thus collaboratively constructing a performance. To frame the discussion, a conceptualisation of the overlap between body and voice is set out. This conceptualisation emerged during the development of vocal-physical performance projects (2015-16) and was subsequently developed into a broader philosophical orientation. Focusing on issues of embodiment and empathy, this orientation is enlisted to re-examine choral conducting training practices. The influence of these explorations on Daniel Galbreath’s choral conducting teaching is outlined. Additional action-research with theatre practitioner and teacher Gavin Thatcher is then detailed to demonstrate further developments and disruptions to Galbreath’s practice. As a result, a conducting training practice emerges from these practical enquiries that exploits performers’ mutual, direct physical contact via sound.

Performance Projects Work as Closure Assignments

1997 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Bordlee III ◽  
Diana Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Performance Projects

TRENDS IN ASSESSMENT SCALES AND CRITERION-REFERENCED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 205-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thom Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Criterion Referenced ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
Potential Interactions ◽  
Assessment Scales

Two current developments reflecting a common concern in second/foreign language assessment are the development of: (1) scales for describing language proficiency/ability/performance; and (2) criterion-referenced performance assessments. Both developments are motivated by a perceived need to achieve communicatively transparent test results anchored in observable behaviors. Each of these developments in one way or another is an attempt to recognize the complexity of language in use, the complexity of assessing language ability, and the difficulty in interpreting potential interactions of scale task, trait, text, and ability. They reflect a current appetite for language assessment anchored in the world of functions and events, but also must address how the worlds of functions and events contain non skill-specific and discretely hierarchical variability. As examples of current tests that attempt to use performance criteria, the chapter reviews the Canadian Language Benchmark, the Common European Framework, and the Assessment of Language Performance projects.

The Philippine Triad and Western Dichotomous Philosophies: A Contest of Traditions in Three Audio-Performance Projects

Leonardo ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Fatima Lasay
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
Historical Function

The author's three projects draw upon her analysis of a triumvirate of social roles in ancient Philippine society, especially in connection with the maintenance of ritual in that society. Each project addresses the historical function of ritual as well as how it is carried over into art.

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