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Devenir étoile du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris
Biens Symboliques, 2023 The destiny of danseur étoile or danseuse étoile (the highest rank a dancer can reach at the Paris Opera Ballet) always appears within the semantic field of “talent” or “gift,” as if to justify something that escapes reason. Rather than offering a causal
Joël Laillier
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.This review celebrates the work of Professor Mike Benjamin, whose anatomical research transformed our understanding of entheses. Entheses are biomechanically complex regions that accommodate the transition between soft connective tissues and bone by natural macroscopic and microscopic adaptations that reduce stress concentration.
Hannah Shaw
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The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) has generated a long afterlife across global media, extending from literature to theater, film, and fandom. Its Korean musical adaptation, Dorian Gray: A New Musical (2016), illustrates how queer aesthetics are reconfigured under the logics of commercial entertainment and cultural export.
Di Cotofan Wu
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Ballet scene in Belgrade (1930-1940)
Accelerando: BJMD, 2020 The author based his observations and his conclusions upon memoires of Ksenia Grundt Duma (Ксения Грундт-Дюме). She was a well-known ballerina throughout Europe, as she was dancing on many stages from Russian Kharkov to Paris.
Viktor Ivanovich Kosik
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Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract Background Emotions are an intrinsic part of medicine. However, formal medical curricula fall short in addressing the role of emotions in medicine, and the hidden curriculum often promotes emotional detachment as a core component of medical professionalism.
Marcelo B. S. Rivas +5 more
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The engaged action hypothesis: Explaining the merits of external focus cues
Mind &Language, EarlyView.The attentional focus effect—the theory that focusing on the body during skilled tasks leads to suboptimal results relative to focusing externally—is well established, but it is not known why it holds. The most widely cited explanation is the constrained action hypothesis: Focusing on the body interferes with beneficial automatic motor programs.
Barbara Montero, John Toner
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Ballet in the Theaters of the Radziwill Princes in the 18th Century
Современные проблемы музыкознания, 2023 The appearance of the first ballet productions and the emergence of professional education for dancers on the territory of Belarus in the 18th century is associated with the activities of the theaters of the magnates — the wealthiest ...
Anastasia Yu. Patoshina
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Croisements chorégraphiques : opéras à la ville et à la cour au milieu du xviiie siècle
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de VersaillesWhen the Académie Royale de Musique left Paris in order to perform operas at court, it relied on its usual personnel – with the exception of the choreographer, who was in the service of the king.
Rebecca Harris-Warrick
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