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"Just with you": Professional integrated dancers' practices of access and access intimacy in timing
DownloadFall 2020
Integrated dance brings together disabled and non-disabled people to train, rehearse, and perform (Cooper Albright, 1997). In integrated dance, like normative Western concert dance, practices of timing are tacit knowledge and rarely examined. Using participatory performance creation, which brings...
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"Learning About Ourselves:" Problematizing Contemporary Dancers' Training Practices Through Pilates
DownloadFall 2019
Injuries are a serious risk to contemporary dancers. Consequently, previous research has suggested supplementary training practices, such as conditioning and somatics, as a way to prevent injuries and improve dancers’ body awareness (e.g., Allen, 2009; Franklin, 2004; Fortin & Girard, 2005)....
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Fall 2024
To be in flow is typically described as a state where one becomes enmeshed with the performance of a task. Flow has been extensively investigated and pioneered by the late Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi in the field of positive psychology to optimize focus, presence, and pleasure. Explorations of...