... of participants who successfully used mocap technology (Q3.C.1 and Q3.C.2). Finally, an open question afforded respondents the opportunity to contribute any information they believed to be of interest to the researchers about the use of mocap technologies in the performing arts. Figure 1 illustrates the full...

... will not only help to prevent injury over the lifespan of Australian musicians, it will support and sustain their capacity to contribute towards societal wellbeing and public health outcomes. health education performing arts health music injury prevention healthy communities The manifold physical, mental...

... allowed us to explore different meanings of ‘interactivity’ across cultures. participatory design user centred design empirical studies in interaction design performing arts sound and music computing interculturalism Chuenrudeemol et al. (2012) describe a 5-month project in which industrial...

... the attractiveness of science in formal educational contexts, yet it will be important that the unique collaboration between early career researchers, teachers and students, using performing arts, is seen as something that can enrich our science education and enable young people to come into new relationships...

... in the performing arts still remains mostly unexplored by researchers. Overall, it is the techniques, the theories or the procedures that have been imported. The practical approaches guiding the creative work of rehearsals in theatre, which is based on variation and repetition of performances, have not been...

.... Performing arts medicine Regional pain syndrome Entrapment neuropathy Focal motor dystonia Hypermobility Osteoarthritis British Journal of Rheumatology 1992;31:265-271 CLINICAL REVIEW HAND AND UPPER LIMB PROBLEMS OF INSTRUMENTAL...

... identity Yokohama Marathon Japan marathon Tokyo Marathon Ishihara Shintarō performing arts civic culture citizen runners “The Tokyo Marathon made Japanese people aware that, independent of winning or losing, everyone has their own race,” the champion runner Fujiwara Arata said in 2011. Runners once...

... of nenbutsu practice in Tendai monasteries and patron of the performing arts; through the latter, I examine Matarajin’s symbolic network, keying on the figures of Sekizan Myōjin and Shinra Myōjin, protectors of two rival branches of Tendai. Matarajin Shukaku Hōshinnō Amano Sadakage ḍakini s...

.... On a more positive note, artists in the Cambodian diaspora are operating through groups like Amrita Performing Arts, Creative Living Arts (CLA), Khmer Arts Academy, and Sovanna Phum. These organizations are not only giving performers a chance to work, but are also innovating new combinations of Western...

...This chapter discusses the cultural undergirding that made the Jazz Age what it was. The performing arts—which included instrumental music, choral music, and individual vocal presentations—dominated creative performance in Chicago. Mastery of the voice heard in sopranos, tenors, baritones...

...This chapter delves into the history of Islam in Indonesian performing arts. It considers the view of “Islam against the performing arts” that sometimes emerges in Indonesia (and globally). The vital connections between the arts and Islam go deep in Indonesia. The chapter seeks to broaden the scope...

... the role of the performing arts in establishing, reinforcing, and challenging the norms of gendered behaviors in West Java. It elaborates on how the slippery gender representations in rampak kendang demonstrate that the landscape of gender ideology is remarkably fluid in modern Indonesia...

...“In Pursuit of Awakening” centers incarcerated people’s engagement with the therapeutic humanities at the high point of rehabilitative corrections in Puerto Rico. In the late 1940s and 1950s, literature, the fine and performing arts, and inmate-produced mimeographed magazines provided Puerto Rican...

.... While deeply indebted to Japan's performing arts and traditional lore, Ju-on: The Grudge is coloured by additional hybrid elements that draw on eclectic eras and art movements, from a Japanese avant-garde dance form of the 1960s to American horror franchises of the 1980s. Knowledge...

... gesture affective assemblage Cartesian chaos non Euclidean Laban archive drawing rhythmanalysis effort theory topology Koerperkultur performing arts This chapter locates the practice-inspired approach to rhythm of choreographer and movement-thinker Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) in the wider...

... than eighty provincial and colonial cities. It considers how theatrical production was transformed into big business as the public playhouse became a monument to the performing arts. In tracing the history of the making of the French theater industry in the late Old Regime, this book explores why...

... of modernity, the section on “Women, music, and modernity” links our book to studies that privilege women as prominent social actors in music and raise questions about the politics of gender in the performing arts. “Popular music of Asia” puts gender in dialogue with popular music studies. “Technologies...

... verfremdungseffekt alienation device Yue opera Comedy of Eight Errors A Chinese opera history Chinese performing arts Art development Performing arts Stage craft Mei Lanfang Photo 1.01 Women Warriors of the Yang Family, Peking Opera A first visit to the Chinese opera can...

... the Dough Chinese mime Chinese acrobatics Poses Special Moves Playing the Dwarf Chinese Opera Chinese performing arts Photo 2.01 A Comedy of Eight Errors, Cantonese Opera Relying on mime, or pure stage movement, to indicate physical realities is one of the primary...

...This chapter examines how the practice of forcing slaves to perform continued offstage. It looks at the backstage to expose the private world of bondsmen and bondswomen. Through an analysis of slave narratives and autobiographies, it shows how slaves used the performing arts to gain agency...