Open innovation in the performing arts. Examples from contemporary dance and theatre production

Scholarship on open innovation examines the different shades of opening up the innovation process of firms, where the most important feature is sourcing in knowledge. In this paper I examine the implications of adapting open innovation frames to a field where it was not investigated before: performing arts (contemporary dance and theatre). I draw on case studies and demonstrate that open innovation strategies are viable for artistic production. Independent companies purposefully mining out external knowledge in production, and commercializing on the spillovers of their body of knowledge, put themselves on the shelf of firms adopting and adapting to open innovation.

Effects of nutrition education on the nutrition knowledge of future aerobic dance instructors

The effectiveness of nutrition education on the nutrition knowledge of future aerobic instructors was studied. Forty-seven subjects participated in the study. The experimental group (n=31) chose to and paid for a two-hour per week session of structured nutrition education for four weeks, the control group (n=16) did not. A nutrition knowledge test was completed by all subjects before and after the intervention. Results were analyzed for relationships between subject's nutrition knowledge and age, gender, educational background, income, and body mass index. No significant differences were found between the groups. The results showed that prior to any formal nutrition education, fitness instructors in the experimental and control groups had low nutrition knowledge (8.06%±16.4% and 4.38%±4.12%, respectively). Post-intervention nutrition knowledge significantly improved (p

Desejo, estilo de vida e transgressão da identidade em Dancer from the dance de Andrew Holleran e Pela noite de Caio F.

From the research and awareness of literary work, this thesis discusses aspects related to the study of homoeroticism and lifestyles in the works Dancer from the Dance (2001) by Andrew Holleran and Pela noite (2010) by Brazilian author Caio Fernando Abreu. Whereas issues about beauty, desire and lifestyle shape cutouts important to the narrative, I propose a discussion by examining the works that mark from the first moments of sexual release party in New York with the peculiarities of their own styles that characterized the Andrew Holleran characters rostificadas by an ethos that he composed during this time opening for freedom of sexual deviant sexualities. In Pela noite, we reiterate a continuation of opening moment in Brazil for gay characters Caio , assuming the early 1980s for those characters is the first " shadows " of AIDS and knowledge of self , in which his characters living with fear, anonymity and reminiscences of homophobia as a backdrop to the discussions that are triggered off by the author . To compose a theoretical framework to subsidize this work , we selected the works of Michel Foucault (2007 , 2010a , 2010b ) , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (2008 ) , Didier Eribon (2008 ) , David Cartier (2004 ) , David Eisenbach (2006 ) and other contributions that were undoubtedly essential to this endeavor

Betty Ford and Pearl Bailey dance at the "Women of the Year" Awards

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Drummer at NOW conference dance

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Lesbians at dance in the Old GAA Building on Wooster Street

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Lesbians at a dance

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Exhibitionism (disco dance)

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Capoeira. Romper la regla para luego restablecerla

La capoeira es una práctica corporal de origen afrobrasilero que hoy es practicada en todo el mundo. Las definiciones y descripciones de capoeiristas y no capoeiristas acerca de la práctica misma son divergentes, variadas, muchas veces contrapuestas. No existe un consenso general que establezca una conceptualización unánime de la práctica. Sin embargo, analizando la lógica que determina las acciones de los capoeiristas, resulta posible señalar características propias del juego, y como tal, se reconocen diferentes instancias: un momento inicial cooperativo, otro de súbita oposición (que pone fin a la cooperación), y un restablecimiento de la lógica cooperativa. El equilibrio entre las tres resulta esencial y da cuenta de una comprensión cabal de la lógica de la práctica por parte de quienes la llevan a cabo. El presente artículo pretende lograr una descripción de este funcionamiento, que subyace y articula las acciones de los practicantes pero que sin embargo es escasamente explicitado, verbalizado e incluso conceptualizado por los mismos practicantes

Capoeira. Romper la regla para luego restablecerla

La capoeira es una práctica corporal de origen afrobrasilero que hoy es practicada en todo el mundo. Las definiciones y descripciones de capoeiristas y no capoeiristas acerca de la práctica misma son divergentes, variadas, muchas veces contrapuestas. No existe un consenso general que establezca una conceptualización unánime de la práctica. Sin embargo, analizando la lógica que determina las acciones de los capoeiristas, resulta posible señalar características propias del juego, y como tal, se reconocen diferentes instancias: un momento inicial cooperativo, otro de súbita oposición (que pone fin a la cooperación), y un restablecimiento de la lógica cooperativa. El equilibrio entre las tres resulta esencial y da cuenta de una comprensión cabal de la lógica de la práctica por parte de quienes la llevan a cabo. El presente artículo pretende lograr una descripción de este funcionamiento, que subyace y articula las acciones de los practicantes pero que sin embargo es escasamente explicitado, verbalizado e incluso conceptualizado por los mismos practicantes

The Narrative Value of Dance Communication: "habitus", musicality and emotion

The richness of dance comes from the need to work with an individual body. Still, the body of the dancer belongs to plural context, crossed by artistic and social traditions, which locate the artists in a given field. We claim that role conflict is an essential component of the structure of collective artistic creativity. We address the production of discourse in a British dance company, with data that spawns from the ethnography ‘Dance and Cognition’, directed by David Kirsh at the University of California, together with WayneMcGregor-Random Dance. Our Critical Discourse Analysis is based on multiple interviews to the dancers and choreographer. Our findings show how creativity in dance seems to be empirically observable, and thus embodied and distributed shaped by the dance habitus of the particular social context.

‘Do you want to see my hornpipe?’: the traditional Irish dancing body at play in the work of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne’, in Anthony Shay and Barbara Sellers-Young (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp.41-65.

This chapter considers the radical reimaginings of traditional Irish step dance in the recent works of Jean Butler and Colin Dunne, in which the Irish step-dancing body is separated from its historical roots in nationalism, from the exhibitionism required by the competitive form, and from the spectacularization of the commercialized theatrical format. In these works the traditional form undergoes a critical interrogation in which the dancers attempt to depart from the determinacy of the traditional technique, while acknowledging its formation of their corporealities; the Irish step-dance technique becomes a springboard for creative experimentation. To consider the importance of the creative potential revealed by these works, this chapter contextualizes them within the dance background from which they emerged, outlining the history of competitive step dancing in Ireland, the “modernization” of traditional Irish dance with the emergence of Riverdance (1994), and the experiments of Ireland’s national folk theater, Siamsa Tíre.

Capoeira. Romper la regla para luego restablecerla

La capoeira es una práctica corporal de origen afrobrasilero que hoy es practicada en todo el mundo. Las definiciones y descripciones de capoeiristas y no capoeiristas acerca de la práctica misma son divergentes, variadas, muchas veces contrapuestas. No existe un consenso general que establezca una conceptualización unánime de la práctica. Sin embargo, analizando la lógica que determina las acciones de los capoeiristas, resulta posible señalar características propias del juego, y como tal, se reconocen diferentes instancias: un momento inicial cooperativo, otro de súbita oposición (que pone fin a la cooperación), y un restablecimiento de la lógica cooperativa. El equilibrio entre las tres resulta esencial y da cuenta de una comprensión cabal de la lógica de la práctica por parte de quienes la llevan a cabo. El presente artículo pretende lograr una descripción de este funcionamiento, que subyace y articula las acciones de los practicantes pero que sin embargo es escasamente explicitado, verbalizado e incluso conceptualizado por los mismos practicantes

(Un)covering ground: dance, space and mobility

Ballet and modern dance teachers often exhort students to ‘travel across the floor’ and ‘cover ground’. These instructions invoke metaphors of travel and mobility that capture an array of common assumptions about dance, space and movement. This essay examines the spatial and mobility discourses that these instructions simultaneously build upon and produce while exploring the seductiveness of technique’s promise of mastering space through the moving body. Threading auto-ethnography with critical theory and moving across different disciplinary fields and writing styles, I explore the ways in which these instructions leak outside the perimeter of the dance studio to feed into the narrative of a dancer’s extended physical, geographical and social mobility. Analysing the mobility and travel discourses of my dance training vis-à-vis poststructuralist theorizations of the subaltern power of the nomad and theories of space and place, I argue that this narrative becomes complicit in the construction of an idealized notion of artistic nomadism, which, in turn, aligns with current neoliberal logics organised around the production of mobile subjects.

Safe dance practice: uma abordagem estratégica sobre as condições psicomotoras e emocionais nas aulas de Técnica de Dança Contemporânea - 5º ano A da Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional

Relatório Final de Estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Dança, com vista à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ensino de Dança.