Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Taylor ◽  
Elena Estanol
Keyword(s):  
Performance Excellence ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Psychological Strength ◽  
Mental Aspect

The dance world is filled with technique books, which certainly serve an important role in helping dancers improve their performance. But the market has been conspicuously void of instruction on a vital aspect of dance performance: the mental aspect. Developing Psychological Strength in All Dancers Jim Taylor, a veteran sport and dance psychologist and author, and Elena Estanol, a dancer, instructor, and sport and dance psychologist, bring their experience and knowledge to Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence to help dancers at all levels develop psychological strength to maximize their performance.

Receiving a national quality award three times

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo A. Cauchick Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Performance Excellence ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Quality Award ◽  
And Performance ◽  
National Quality Award

Purpose – In recent decades, a framework for management performance has proven to be an important management practice for achieving organisational performance excellence. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how a specific company manages to achieve performance excellence through the attainment of the Brazilian National Quality Award. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a case-based approach using a single unit of analysis that might be considered a revealing case. The company studied is one of the largest companies in the information and financial analysis sector in Latin America and is part of a major worldwide corporation. Semi-structured interviews with senior managers and document analysis were used for data collection, with content and inductive analysis performed a posteriori. Findings – The main results outline the approach adopted by the company for each performance excellence award criterion and highlight some of the relevant organisational practices, especially those related to the nature of the company’s businesses. The findings show that the top management has been an essential driving force in transforming the managers at all levels into agents of improvement at the studied company. Additional key points are the deployment of the company’s “shared values” throughout the company and the implementation of a medium- and long-term comprehensive strategic plan focused on the award criteria. The company’s strategic system has been a driving force of its success. Research limitations/implications – For a more extensive empirical validation, further replications using other samples are needed to ensure the external validity of these findings. Originality/value – This paper is one of the few published studies discussing business excellence in emerging economies, which is not observed very often in developing markets. In addition, the paper focuses on promoting a culture of quality, a less common phenomenon in the economies of developing countries than in those of developed nations. Finally, this paper may be useful for practitioners and academics interested in the subject of quality and performance excellence.

Conforming Line

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Naomi Elena Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
American Art ◽  
Video Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
And Performance

A practice of experimental graphic scoring for performance explores the ambiguity and transformation at the conflation of boundaries between dance/performance and photography. Within the score, fragments of the moving gestural body are photographed and then placed upon the page in relation to and modified by lines. Naomi Elena Ramírez (b. Hermosillo, Mexico) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses visual art, video art, and performance, and the process by which the different mediums can inform each other. Her work has been presented by A.I.R. Gallery, the Institute of (Im)Possible Subjects, Movement Research at the Judson Church, DoublePlus at Gibney Dance, The Bronx Latin American Art Biennial, Nurture Art Gallery, BRIC Contemporary Arts online exhibitions, Wallplay Gallery, and The Situation Room, LA.

edged: Exploring the porous boundaries between teaching philosophy, dance performance and choreographic practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Laberge-Côté
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Porous Body ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dance Training ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Over the past four years I have developed The Porous Body, a teaching philosophy that promotes the practice of heightened physical and mental malleability in dance training by following four fundamental guiding principles: flow, playfulness, metaphor and paradox. As my process deepened, I wondered: what would happen if I applied The Porous Body to my choreographic practice? How might this framework prove fruitful during a creative process? What kind of choreographic work would emerge from this experiment? This article is an artist’s reflection on an artistic experiment; it describes the first choreographic process to which I applied The Porous Body’s guiding principles, and which led to the creation and performance of edged, a solo work exploring the porous edges between inner/outer, planned/unplanned, control/surrender, pleasure/struggle and terror/courage.

scholarly journals The Application Of The Excellence Model To Enhance Health Service Delivery And Performance Excellence In A State Department

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. D. Eygelaar ◽  
J. S. UYS
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Service ◽  
State Department ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Performance Excellence ◽  
The South ◽  
And Performance

This article examines the appropriateness of applying the South African Excellence Model for public service performance excellence in developing a strategy to enhance health service delivery and performance excellence in a state department. The results achieved by the application of the South African Excellence ModeI for Public Service Performance Excellence Self-assessment Questionnaire provide potential benefits for the state department to enhance health service delivery and performance excellence. The Excellence Model identifies the department’s strengths and areas for improvement based upon well-established internationally accepted the retical frameworks and recognised criteria for performance excellence. From this study it is inferred that determining health service performance excellence continues to be a challenge in the department. OpsommingHierdie artikel ondersoek die geskiktheid van die toepassing van die Suid-Afrikaanse uitnemendheidsmodel vir openbare sektor prestasieuitnemendheid as die ontwikkeling van ‘n strategie vir die bevordering van gesondheidsdienslewering en prestasieuitnemendheid in ‘n staatsdepartment. Die resultate behaal met die toepassing van die Suid-Afrikaanse uitnemendheidsmodel vir openbare sektor prestasieuitnemendheidselfbeoordelingsvraelys bied potensiële voordeel vir die staatsdepartement om gesondheidsdienslewering en prestasieuitnemendheid te bevorder. Die uitnemendheidsmodel identifiseer die department se sterkpunte en ontwikkelingsareas gebaseer op internasionaal-gevestigde, teoretiese raamwerke en erkende kriteria vir prestasieuitnemendheid. Van hierdie studie kan dit afgelei word dat gesondheidsdiensprestasieuitnemendheid steeds ‘n uitdaging in die departement bly.gevolg deur ’n iteratiewe itemontleding. Die voorlopige bevindinge dui daarop dat die vraelys toegepas kan word vir die beoordeling van ’n kliëntintimiteitskultuur.

scholarly journals Cardiorespiratory Profile and Performance Demands of Elite Hip-Hop Dancers: Breaking and New Style

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew A Wyon ◽  
Julie Harris ◽  
Faye Adams ◽  
Ross Cloak ◽  
Francis A Clarke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Blood Lactate ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Gas Analysis ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
Treadmill Test ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Physiological Demands ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Demands

AIMS: Dancers need to constantly maintain and develop their physiological capabilities to support their performances. Previously these physiological demands have been investigated only in traditional dance styles such as ballet and modern. The aim of this study was to examine the physiological demands of two types of hip-hop: new style and break dance. METHODS: Nine female new style dancers (age 20±6 yrs, height 163.5±1.4 cm, mass 55.8±22 kg) and 9 male break dancers (age 23±4.2 yrs, height 178.2±5.7 cm, mass 62.1±7.7 kg) volunteered for the study. Each subject completed a maximal graded treadmill test and a dance performance routine, either new style (approx 1:45–2:30 min) or breaking (2 min). Breathe-by-breathe gas analysis and heart rate (HR) were collected by a portable gas analyser, and blood lactate (BLa) was measured at the end of the treadmill test and each routine. RESULTS: The male breaker dancers had significantly higher VO2 peak than other equivalent dancers in other genres, whilst the female new style dancers were similar to that previously reported for female dancers. Performance data showed significant differences between the two styles for VO2, HR, and BLa (p<0.001) and for VO2 and HR relative to individual maximal treadmill data (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: New style is more comparable to other theatrical dance genres, with a lower relative mean VO2 demand, whilst break dance is shorter in duration, allowing a higher cardiorespiratory demand and generating significant levels of blood lactate. This difference is also reflected in the dancers’ cardiorespiratory profiles.

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