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Injuries in Contemporary Dance
Advances in Physical Education, 2020 Different dance types may lead to different injuries. Musculoskeletal injuries in dance can be divided into chronic injuries, and acute injuries. And the causes of injuries are also different. In modern dance, the most common injuries are the ankle, knee and shin.
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Race, identity and the meaning of Jazz in 1940s Britain [PDF]
, 2014 During the Blitz, on 8 March 1941, a bomb fell on the Café de Paris, an exclusive London nightclub, just as the Guianaian-born bandleader Ken “Snakehips” Johnson and his West Indian Dance Orchestra were in full swing.
Tackley, Catherine
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Review: The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli
The International Journal of Screendance, 2015 Dance on screen is by no means a new phenomenon, however the analytic consideration of popular dance on screen is a relatively new addition to dance studies.
Hetty Blades
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Collectivity and Criticism: (Fragments of) Conversations on Post-dance [PDF]
, 2018 Post-dance first unfolded as a conference in MDT in Stockholm, 14-16 October, 2015, created by Danjel Andersson, Andre Lepecki and Gabriel Smeds, and was followed by a multi-authored publication co-edited by Andersson, Mette Edvardsen and Mårten ...
LO GATTO, Sergio
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Detailed injury epidemiology in contemporary dance: a 1-year prospective study of 134 students
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2019 Aim We investigated the extent and characteristics of injuries in contemporary dance students.Methods During one academic year, 134 students of Bachelor dance and Bachelor dance teacher from Codarts University of the Arts (Rotterdam, the Netherlands ...
Janine H Stubbe +5 more
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Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Moving from European discourses on the precarious and art to the realities of contemporary dance [PDF]
, 2019 In this article, we encapsulate several key debates in sociology, cultural and arts politics and the media industry on precarious work since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century. After setting out the fundamental discourses on precarity,
Laermans, Rudi +2 more
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Gatekeepers of dance: Journalistic coverage of concert contemporary dance
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2016 This paper analyzes journalism’s coverage of concert contemporary dance as a method of human communication, a component of cultural conversation, and a member of the greater creative exchange.
Clay York, Aaron Chimbel
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