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Making The Ballet of the Nations: Cinematography

British Art Studies, 2019
Director of Photography, Jack Offord, talks to Ella Margolin about shooting and lighting Impermanence's The Ballet of the Nations. What kind of visual references, from both cinematography and art history, were brought to bear on the palette and lighting ...
Ella Margolin, Jack Offord
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The Imposter by Jurgis Karnavicius: A Ballet-Fantasy on a Historical Plot

Современные проблемы музыкознания
One of the first Lithuanian composers to work in the genre of ballet was Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941). In 1928 he introduced a choreographic scene based on his tone poem The Lithuanian Rhapsody, that engaged interest in the genre of ballet ...
Anton Vagero, Nina V. Pilipenko
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Dance, body and memory: the Original Ballet Russe and its three seasons in Rio de Janeiro

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2021
This text presents reflections on studies of history, memory and dance. I start from the field of History and my interest in understanding the role of memory in knowledge production processes.
Beatriz Cerbino
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Problematising ‘Vulnerability’ in Women's Prisons

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Vulnerability’ is a commonly used but little understood term in the field of social policy and beyond. The refocusing of our criminal justice system around notions of ‘vulnerability’ has had wide‐reaching consequences which often escape both academic and political attention.
Sarah Waite, Danica Darley
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Prokofiev’s ballet The Tale of the Stone Flower: idea, creation, premiere

Современные проблемы музыкознания, 2020
The article is the first attempt to recreate the history of the emergence and early existence of the final ballet by Prokofiev. The composer worked on this opus from July 1948 until the last day of his life.
Svetlana A. Petukhova
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Racialized and Sexualized Branding in Japan's Online Eikaiwa Industry: The Objectification of Female Eastern European Teachers

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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Gendered Harmony and Unsung Collections: Two Debussy Rabbit Holes

Music Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This review article on Mark McFarland's The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (2024) offers a critical reading of this recent text and treats its content as a springboard for the exploration of two issues untapped in existing musicological discourse.
Rajan Lal
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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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«Córka źle strzeżona» – baletowe wcielenie sentymentalizmu

Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016
This article presents an analysis of The Wayward Daughter, famed for being the most enduring piece in the ballet repertory all over the world. Sentimentalism, which influenced ballet as well, leaving its mark on the form and content of this art ...
Agnieszka Narewska
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

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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