Quiet Dances

Quiet Dances
Author: Francisco Delli
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2002-07-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0595236553

Is the heart empty or is the heart full? It may just concern you; Are you happy or are you blue? Thus I thought on that rainy afternoon…The mind is like a pond whose waters are still, and each recurrent thought is like a heavy stone thrown therein…The key here are the breaks: knowing how to stop. Every time I read where wisdom is involved, this is what I read, this is all they talk.

Silent Dances

Silent Dances
Author: A. C. Crispin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 275
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441783304

Deaf since birth and able to withstand the ear-shattering sonic cries of the Grus, Tesa is an ideal choice for ambassador to their planet, but other alien forces want to destroy the Grus and Tesa must make peace with them and save the inhabitants of her a

How to Do Things with Silence

How to Do Things with Silence
Author: Haig Khatchadourian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1501501445

This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the religious dimensions of silence. The book, as an original contribution to analytical philosophy, should be of interest to philosophers and students.

Silent Dancing

Silent Dancing
Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781611920307

Silent Dancing is a personal narrative made up of Judith Ortiz CoferÍs recollections of the bilingual-bicultural childhood which forged her personality as a writer and artist. The daughter of a Navy man, Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico and spent her childhood shuttling between the small island of her birth and New Jersey. In fluid, clear, incisive prose, as well as in the poems she includes to highlight the major themes, Ortiz Cofer has added an important chapter to autobiography, Hispanic American Creativity and womenÍs literature. Silent Dancing has been awarded the 1991 PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction and has been selected for The New York Public LibraryÍs 1991 Best Books for the Teen Age.

Neurophysiology of Silence Part B: Theory and Review

Neurophysiology of Silence Part B: Theory and Review
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2023-09-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0443236143

Progress in Brain Research serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors - Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors - Presents the latest release in Progress in Brain Research serials - Updated release includes the latest information on Neurophysiology of Silence

Ukrainian Dance

Ukrainian Dance
Author: Andriy Nahachewsky
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-11-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0786487062

Ukrainian dance is remarkably enduring in its popularity and still performed in numerous cultural contexts. This text unpacks the complex world of this ethnic dance, with special attention to the differences between vival dance (which requires being fully engaged in the present moment) and reflective dance (dance connected explicitly to the past). Most Ukrainian vival dances have been performed by peasants in traditional village settings, for recreational and ritual purposes. Reflective Ukrainian dances are performed more self-consciously as part of a living heritage. Further sub-groups are examined, including national dances, recreational/educational dances, and spectacular dances on stage.

Works

Works
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1883
Genre:
ISBN:

Motion and Representation

Motion and Representation
Author: Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2015-05-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0262028883

An examination of the ways human movement can be represented as a formal language and how this language can be mediated technologically. In Motion and Representation, Nicolás Salazar Sutil considers the representation of human motion through languages of movement and technological mediation. He argues that technology transforms the representation of movement and that representation in turn transforms the way we move and what we understand to be movement. Humans communicate through movement, physically and mentally. To record and capture integrated movement (both bodily and mental), by means of formal language and technological media, produces a material record and cultural expression of our evolving kinetic minds and identities. Salazar Sutil considers three forms of movement inscription: a written record (notation), a visual record (animation), and a computational record (motion capture). He focuses on what he calls kinetic formalism—formalized movement in such pursuits as dance, sports, live animation, and kinetic art, as well as abstract definitions of movement in mathematics and computer science. He explores the representation of kinetic space and spatiotemporality; the representation of mental plans of movement; movement notation, including stave notation (Labanotation) and such contemporary forms of notation as Choreographic Language Agent; and the impact of digital technology on contemporary representations of movement—in particular motion capture technology and Internet transfer protocols. Motion and Representation offers a unique cultural theory of movement and of the ever-changing ways of representing movement.

Silent Eloquence

Silent Eloquence
Author: Ismene Lada-Richards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2013-10-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147253770X

One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's "On the Dance", a dialogue written at the height of pantomime's popularity, this innovative cultural study of the genre offers a radical reassessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and later antiquity. Rather than being trivial or lowbrow, pantomime was thoroughly enmeshed in wider social discourses on morality and sexuality, gender and desire and a key player in the fierce battles about education and culture that raged in the ancient world. A close reading of primary sources, judiciously interlaced with a wealth of interdisciplinary perspectives, makes this challenging book essential for anyone interested in the performance culture of the Greek and Roman world.