Tango Femme : placing the lesbian centre stage

The play Tango Femme places the lesbian centre stage by creating characters, narrative and drama in the world of same-sex dancing. The accompanying exegesis examines the problems and issues associated with creating lesbian characters in theatre, using a synthesized, practice led methodology. During the process of imagining, constructing and writing my case study play, I have investigated lesbian theatre productions and companies in order to make sense of my personal experiences in the theatre world. I have also reflected on the lesbian as represented in mainstream theatre and popular culture. Through journal writing and contemplation, I have sought to identify difficulties inherent in writing this type of play, using my own journey as a focus. My study illuminates the historical and sociological circumstances in the eighties and nineties in Australia and concludes that as a lesbian playwright I was caught between a rock and a hard place: the rock being lesbian theatre on a community level, as defined and attended primarily by separatist lesbians, and the hard place being mainstream theatre, located within the dominant, heteronormative discourse. The play Tango Femme has developed in conversation with my reflective practice and research and is written in the space outside the master narrative as "an instance of lesbian discourse" (Davy 1996, p.153).

The supervision tango : perceptions of supervisors of international graduate students in Engineering and IT

This paper, which was part of a larger study, reports on a survey that explored the perceptions of 69 graduate supervisors regarding issues in supervision from three higher education institutions in Australia. Factors that contribute to student success in higher education research degrees are many and diverse, including a complex dance of student factors, supervisor factors, and their supervisory context factors, and those informed by cultural and language differences. Therefore, a complex system approach using Bayesian network modelling was used to explore how student and/or supervisor factors influence the success of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) graduate students in Engineering and IT. Findings suggest that key factors include the experience of supervisors in terms of experience with the Australian higher education system, personal cross-cultural experience.

Trayectorias líricas : del romancero español al tango argentino

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII : Actas de las X Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2011, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario del Cancionero General de Hernando del Castillo.

El tango en la obra de Juán José Castro

Resumen: Juan José Castro utilizó como material el tango para algunas de sus obras a lo largo de casi 20 años. Era ciertamente un conocedor del género, ya que lo había practicado en su juventud. Actualmente, es considerado un actor paradigmático cuando se aborda la cuestión del neoclasicismo y la utilización de materiales vernáculos en la música académica argentina. El propósito de este trabajo es señalar la presencia del tango en su obra y la articulación en la misma de los lenguajes culto y popular. A diferencia de otras incorporaciones del tango en la música académica, la de Castro es integradora y elabora a partir de la selección de determinados materiales “tanguísticos” un tango propio, reconocible a lo largo de su obra.

It Takes Two to Tango: Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Troubled Times – Vietnam 2012

Strikingly, most literature suggests that market competition will push firms to take creativity/innovation seriously as matter of death or survival. Using the data, we examined creativity methods (Napier and Nilsson, 2008; Napier, 2010) in conjunction with three influential cultural values – namely risk tolerance, relationship, and dependence on resources – to assess how they influence decisions of entrepreneurs.The primary objective of this study focuses on perceived values of entrepreneurship and creativity in business conducted within a turbulent environment. Our initial hypothesis is that a typical entrepreneurial process carries with it “creativity-enabling elements.” In a normal situation, when businesses focus more on optimizing their resources for commercial gains, perceptions about values of entrepreneurial creativity are usually vague. However, in difficult times and harsh competition, the difference between survival and failure may be creativity. This paper also examines many previous findings on both entrepreneurship and creativity and suggests a highly possible “organic growth” of creativity in an entrepreneurial environment and reinforcing value of entrepreneurship when creativity power is present. In other words, we see each idea reinforcing the other. We use data from a survey of sample Vietnamese firms during the chaotic economic year 2012 to learn about the ‘entrepreneurshipcreativity nexus.’ A data set of 137 responses qualified for a statistical examination was obtained from an online survey, which started on February 16 and ended May 24, 2012, sent to local entrepreneurs and corporate managers using social networks. The authors employed categorical data analysis (Agresti, 2002; Azen & Walker, 2011). Statistical analyses confirm that for business operation, the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit could hardly be separate; and, this is not only correct with entrepreneurial firm, but also well established companies. The single most important factor before business startup and during early implementation in Vietnam is what we call “connection/relationship.” However, businesspeople are increasingly aware of the need of creativity/innovation. In fact, we suggest that creativity and entrepreneurial spirit cannot be separated in entrepreneurial firms as well as established companies.

Exploiting local controversy: regional British censorship of Last Tango in Paris (1972)

This article explores local authority responses to the cinematic release of Last Tango in Paris in Britain. Using a range of archival material from the BBFC, the National Archives and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland, it offers a detailed, comparative case study of three different locations; Belfast, Newport and Oxford. It argues that comparing local censorship decisions with the national decisions of the BBFC offer little in the way of regional nuance. In order to effectively understand the workings of local censorship, a deeper understanding of local discourses is needed as well as acknowledgement of broader pressure group activity and its impact on the local picture, such as that of the National Festival of Light.

De on tango street a tango nas ruas: explorando a fanfiction e a autotradução na tliteratura da geração da internet

Tese de Mestrado Tradução e Interpretação Especializadas Joana Santos Nazaré Orientador: Professora Doutora Manuela Veloso Instituto de Contabilidade e Administração

Um tango com Gardel

Dissertação submetida à Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teatro - especialização em Artes Performativas – vertente Teatro-Música.

Entre danser pour soi et danser pour les autres : la construction de l'expérience dans le processus de socialisation des danseurs de tango argentin de Montréal

Cette étude ethnographique porte sur le réseau social du tango argentin à Montréal, les valeurs esthétiques du tango, l’interprétation de l’expérience de la danse acquise au cours du processus de socialisation et les différents agents de socialisation. Dans un contexte de réappropriation et de déterritorialisation d’un savoir-faire comme le tango, les références symboliques relatives à son contexte d’origine, son imaginaire collectif et son contexte sociohistorique sont moins accessibles. Ceci semble appeler chez les danseurs montréalais une sorte de surdétermination de l’expérience immédiate, concrète et interactive de la danse dans la construction d’un sens collectif. Cette recherche s’intéresse plutôt à la transposition dans le réseau montréalais de certaines normes esthétiques en lien avec les modalités interactives de la danse. Ces normes esthétiques induisent une attention particulière portée à la qualité de l’expérience se reflétant dans les pratiques et les discours. Ces valeurs esthétiques remontent au contexte d’origine du tango et à la rencontre entre différents univers socialisateurs transnationaux à différentes étapes de son évolution. De ce type de rencontres «transesthétiques», s’est développé un dualisme entre le danser pour les autres et le danser pour soi, dans les représentations et la mise en forme d’une expérience dansée. À Montréal, c’est avec emphase qu’on observe la cohabitation de ces deux systèmes de valeurs en apparence antagonistes où, d’une part, est valorisé l’exhibition du soi et, d’autre part, sont priorisés l’intériorité et l’expérience subjective. En bref, ce mémoire explore les relations complexes qui existent entre les processus culturels et leurs produits, l’expérience et le sens, entre la subjectivité individuelle et la collectivité, et redéfinit l’agentivité des acteurs sociaux en étudiant les modes spécifiques de production du sens dans un art comme la danse.

Un cal.ligrama i un tango per a l'home llagosta.

Resumen tomado de la publicación. Contiene fotografías, letra y partitura de canción, dibujos y caligrama

Malena es un nombre de tango : crónica de una sensibilidad apasionada.

Resumen tomado de la revista

Contextualizaci??n y an??lisis del Tango, sus or??genes hasta la aparici??n de la vanguardia

El tango es producto de una ciudad, no de un pa??s, sino de una realidad urbana. El tango se transforma en producci??n social, pese a que no es oral ni an??nimo. Es propiedad y distintivo de una poblaci??n. Est?? construido con su especial manera de hablar, su m??sica tiene antecedentes y aportes de sus diversas vertientes. Se trata de averiguar c??mo lleg?? el tango y quien lo difundi??. Se cuenta con el asesoramiento de la Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de M??sica (SADAIC) para el desarrollo de la investigaci??n. Para sus registros, la Sociedad pide a sus autores y compositores que adjunten, si es que est?? editado el material a registrar, copia de la obra y que rellenen como comprobante de legitimidad el 'Bolet??n de Declaraci??n de M??sica y Letra'. De una lista de 100 obras que se solicitaron tratando de cubrir el per??odo que va desde las obras, a comienzo de siglo, hasta 1950, llegaron 80 Boletines de Declaraci??n, de ellos 63 tangos solicitados completos con sus partituras y boletines de declaraci??n. En 17 casos s??lo los boletines de declaraci??n y la indicaci??n de no contar con las partituras respectivas. En algunos casos las obras eran extranjeras (espa??olas y uruguayas) y no hab??an sido registradas en Argentina. Algunas de esas obras no hab??an renovado su declaraci??n a la fecha de su vencimiento, no cont??ndose ya con ellas. El corpus de obras reunidas, con el aval de la Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de M??sica, representa un amplio muestreo para el an??lisis de las diferentes ??pocas y su comparaci??n. El tango en sus primeras etapas era propiedad de los sectores humildes y ellos lo conocieron, recogieron y lo llevaron a Europa. El tango es un fen??meno vivo porque est?? generado por una regi??n, una gente y un ambiente. En Madrid y Barcelona hab??a publicaciones dedicadas al tango, con informaci??n al d??a de lo que ocurr??a en Buenos Aires y en el resto del mundo. Estas revistas editaban tangos argentinos y espa??oles y las editoriales se ocupaban de su venta, siendo este el punto de mayor difusi??n.

Spatial characteristics of borromean, tango, samba and all-bound halo nuclei

We report a renormalized zero-range interaction approach to estimate the size of generic weakly bound three-body systems where two particles are identical. We present results for the neutron-neutron root-mean-square distances of the halo nuclei 6He, 11Li, 14Be and 20C, where the systems are taken as two halo neutrons with an inert point-like core. We also report an approach to obtain the neutron-neutron correlation function in halo nuclei. In this case, our results suggest a review of the corresponding experimental data analysis. © 2007 American Institute of Physics.