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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
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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On some graphic regularities of perception in painting and dance: Mnemonic form of dance. The present article handles some problems of the mechanisms of visual perception in painting and classical ballet.
Maria Goltsman
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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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INTERPRETATION OF LITERARY CHARACTERS IN BALLET : EPISODES FROM THE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE OF BORIS EIFMAN [PDF]
This article presents a brief analysis of the Boris Eifman Ballet Theatre and especially brings out the relationship between the choreographer, his conception, the new choreographic language and classical literature. Emphasis is laid on the choreographer`
BEȚIȘOR ANGELA
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The ballet can be deconstructed through some mathematized forms as the geometrical lines and trough created symmetries. Once, Paul Klee painted the Abstract Ballet (1937) in the manner that some musicians made innovative experiments in the music, or in ...
Maria-Roxana BISCHIN
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The engaged action hypothesis: Explaining the merits of external focus cues
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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Movilidad sagital espinal en bailarinas de danza clásica
Classical ballet training focuses on developing very high levels of joint mobility as it is an idiosyncrasy and aesthetic requirement of this artistic discipline.
Fernando Santonja Medina, +3 more
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Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union
Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Introduction: Classical ballet as a discipline pushes the joints of the lower limbs to the extremes of their capacity. Considering that the joints and ligaments of the foot and ankle are not designed for such excessive loads, "dance injuries" become very
Montoya González, Santiago +5 more
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