Dance

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Subject

As a phenomenon, dance – like play or ritual – is vast in its potential frameworks and in encompassing a ubiquitous part of human and even animal behaviour, with multiple motivations and functions.

Carnival

A carnival is a popular and socially liberating street festival that usually combines music, masking or costume, dance, food, eroticism, and performances such as parades, street theatre and puppetry.

Carnival list — Carnival

A carnival is a popular and socially liberating street festival that usually combines music, masking or costume, dance, food, eroticism, and performances such as parades, street theatre and puppetry.

Dance Analysis

Dance studies range widely: from phenomenological approaches that emphasise the experience of movement; through focus on techniques; to the placing of works in a historical or political context.

Dance Analysis subject list — Dance Analysis

Dance studies range widely: from phenomenological approaches that emphasise the experience of movement; through focus on techniques; to the placing of works in a historical or political context.

Kathakali

Kathakali dance-drama is a distinctive genre of South Asian performance which developed during the 16th and 17th centuries in the Malayalam-speaking coastal region of south-west India, Kerala State.

Kathakali list — Kathakali

Kathakali dance-drama is a distinctive genre of South Asian performance which developed during the 16th and 17th centuries in the Malayalam-speaking coastal region of south-west India, Kerala State.

Movement & Body Work

Movement training or the aestheticised enactment of movements in performance requires discipline and rehearsal practice, and more heightened attention than we give our body in everyday life.

Movement subject list — Movement & Body Work

Movement training or the aestheticised enactment of movements in performance requires discipline and rehearsal practice, and more heightened attention than we give our body in everyday life.

Postmodern Dance

Postmodern dance tends to be divided between those choreographers who experiment formalistically with constructed and performed movement, and those who are influenced by modernist developments.

Movement list view — Postmodern Dance

Postmodern dance tends to be divided between those choreographers who experiment formalistically with constructed and performed movement, and those who are influenced by modernist developments.

Solo Performance

Solo performance in a contemporary context usually involves the creation of a performance or piece of theatre which involves only one actor or performer, often playing many different roles.

Postmodern acting subject list — Solo Performance

Solo performance in a contemporary context usually involves the creation of a performance or piece of theatre which involves only one actor or performer, often playing many different roles.