This thesis investigates possible connections between the music of Erik Satie (1866-1925) and the later surrealist movement, turning to Parade (1917) in a case study that seeks to understand surrealism in music through the idea of self-exploration, a well-established interpretive approach in studies of surrealism in the visual arts. This thesis seeks to redefine surrealism in music not as a set of concrete musical characteristics, but as a collection of techniques meant to evoke subconscious turbulence by blurring the boundary between the "outside" and "inside," between conscious and subconscious, leading to a new discovery of higher or deeper truth. Satie's music aligns with the psychoanalytic elements of the discourse on surrealism. Psychoanalysis, pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and his followers in the 1890s in Vienna, permeated France around the time of the creation of the work. It inspired early surrealist techniques like automatism, illusory formal structures, collage, and stylistic allusion. This thesis demonstrates that such techniques can be discerned throughout Parade, not only in Satie's music, but also in its scenario, staging, costumes, and choreography. As such, Parade was a foundational work for the surrealist movement, with Satie's music contributing with the other media equally to the emotional and psychological impact of the ballet.

This thesis work comprises the working and simulation procedures being involved in simulating motion capture data in AnyBody Modeling System. The motion capture data used in this thesis are ballet movements from dancers of Östgöta ballet and dance academy. The ballet movements taken into consideration are the arabesque on demi-pointe and pirouette. The arabesque on demi-pointe was performed by two dancers but the pirouette is performed by only one dancer. The method involved recording ballet movements by placing markers on the dancer's body and using this motion capture data as input to AnyBody Modeling System to create a musculoskeletal simulation. The musculoskeletal modeling involved creating a very own Qualisys marker protocol for the markers placed on the ballet dancers. Then implementing the marker protocol onto a human model in AnyBody Modeling System by making use of the AnyBody Managed Modeling Repository (TM) and obtain the kinematics from the motion capture. To best fit the human model to the dancer's anthropometry, scaling of the human model is done, environmental conditions such as the force plates are provided. An optimization algorithm is conducted for the marker positions to best fit the dancer's anthropometry by running parameter identification. From the kinematics of the motion capture data, we simulate the inverse dynamics in AnyBody Modeling System. The simulations explain a lot of parameters that describe the ballet dancers. Results such as the center of mass, the center of pressure, muscle activation, topple angle are presented and discussed. Moreover, we compare the models of the dancers and draw conclusions about body balance, effort level, and muscles activated during the ballet movements.

This thesis aims to investigate Les Ballet Suédois (1920-1925) and their ambition to create total works of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), a term made famous by the composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). With regards to modern research into total works of art as expressions of the social or political visions of the avant-garde, this thesis applies theoretical concepts of intermediality and performativity to discern how the company cooperated with members of the Parisian avant-garde. Their joint mission was to regenerate society by uniting the arts and constructing ballets designed as total works of art that conveyed the ideas of the collaborating artists, commonly expressed in written manifestos during this era. In analyzing three works: Dårhuset/Maison de Fous, Världens Skapelse/La Création du Monde, and Relâche, it was revealed that staging total works of art was a common pursuit among artists of the avant-garde. The unique function of the Ballet Suédois was to transgress the ideas of the avant-garde into corporeal, temporal, intermedial manifestations of their radical collaborators. The results showed that Ballet Suédois functioned as enablers that performatized aesthetic, social and political ideas to the stage and, in manifesting the manifestos, had a unique function within the Parisian avant-garde of the early 1920s.

The purpose of this study is to, within an artistic process, investigate a dance practice and how the process is enriched by the interaction with three experts within the field of dance pedagogy. Furthermore, it discusses aspects from the process that can be applied in dance education. Methods that are used is autoethnographic perspectives and self-reflective writing in the studio before inviting experts to three unique practical interviews. The results are an intense movement analysis from the work in the studio and deep interaction on the work with three interviews that highlight things such as bodily exploration, musicality and reflection on practice. The study’s conclusion is that a method for ballet class inspired by Creative movement can enrich dance education with reflexivity, but the study also highlights the importance of repetition of movement. / <p>En praktisk föreläsning av arbetet hölls 16 maj i studio 16 på Brinellvägen 58.</p>

Abstract This thesis is proposed as a work of translation, as an attempt to transmit a context that involves bodies, enmeshing genealogical narratives with geopolitics. We have investigated the body in action in the northeast of Italy. This is the context we come from but we view it from an uprooted position, as since 2004 we have been living in southwest Europe (València). We have catalogued and analyzed forms of legitimized artistic expression, including classical ballet, modern jazz dance, Italian futurism's proposals (close to performance), or representations of human anatomy, as well as more popular forms of expression adopted by subordinated women in the course of their everyday working lives during the Cold War, the Fascist era, and the Republic of Venice, all experiences that have been generative of our culture of reference. The contemporary consumerist, capitalist project has aspired to homogenize constructions of contemporary European identity. But subordinated bodies and their cultural legacy are able to resist and transmit genealogies, a heritage of subjugated or assimilated histories that have generated practices such as song or crochet (the poor relations of canonic forms). The latter constitute our methodology; they allow us to unravel the cultural fabric that is presented to us as fact, and to simultaneously re-weave each element, giving it a different order and meaning. An order and meaning that might escape the structure imposed by the ideological and economic perspectives of the dominant frame of reference, proposing a genealogical point of you. For this reason, the chronology of this thesis runs in reverse, ending with the study of the Serenissima (the Most Serene Republic of Venice), an example of proto-capitalist organization that returns us to the present. The diasporas from the global South and East urge us to take responsibility for decolonial processes - a responsibility that the West must assume. The colonial narratives (which bisect our genealogy) demonstrate how the subordinate cultures of our own context and families - in their emancipation towards the dominant- have whitened up, this to say, embraced the nationalist-imperialist project that today merges with capitalism. The process of 'becoming minority,' aspiring to a loss of power, makes it possible to analyze and approach the truth of bodies in action, and to make dominant positions break their innate silence. We consider this a necessary effort, aimed at sharing a daily life that is "otherly communitary": more egalitarian, balanced and peaceful. / Resumen Esta tesis se propone como un trabajo de traducción, como la tentativa de transmitir un contexto que involucra los cuerpos, entrelazando los relatos genealógicos con los geopolíticos. Investigamos el cuerpo en acción en el noreste italiano, nuestro contexto de origen, desde una perspectiva desarraigada, ya que a partir de 2004 estamos afincadas en el suroeste europeo (en València). Recogemos y analizamos algunas expresiones artísticas legitimadas, como el ballet clásico, la danza modern jazz, las propuestas futuristas próximas a la performance, o la anatomía artística, así como aquellas populares de mujeres subalternas realizadas durante el trabajo, en sus vidas y tiempos cotidianos que a lo largo de la Guerra Fría, el Fascismo y la República de Venecia han creado nuestra cultura de referencia. Pese a la construcción de la identidad contemporánea europea, que aspira homologar las diferencias hacia el proyecto capitalista y el consumo del presente, el legado de los cuerpos subalternos es capaz de resistir y transmitir genealogías, herencias de historias sometidas o asimiladas, pero generadoras de prácticas próximas a las artísticas como el canto o el ganchillo. Este último de hecho, será nuestra metodología en cuanto nos permite desmontar tramas que se nos presentan hechas y re-tejer, con una cierta simultaneidad, cada cosa con un orden y un sentido diferente, no estructurado por las perspectivas ideológicas y económicas, propias del contexto de referencia, sino genealógicas. Por esto la cronología de esta tesis es contraria a las series temporales al uso y termina con el estudio de la Serenissima (la República de Venecia) un ejemplo de organización proto-capitalista que nos devuelve al día de hoy. Las diásporas de los sures y estes globales nos ayudan a responsabilizarnos del proceso de-colonial que occidente necesita emprender. Los relatos coloniales que atraviesan también las culturas subalternas de nuestro contexto y nuestras familias demuestran cómo, en su emancipación hacia lo dominante, han elegido blanquearse. Es decir, adherirse al proyecto nacional imperialista que es hoy, también, capitalista. Encaminarse por lo tanto en procesos de "devenir minoritarios" que aspiran perder poder, permite realizar un análisis que intente acercarse a la verdad de los cuerpos en acción, poniendo voz a los silencios que conservan sus posiciones dominantes. Consideramos estos esfuerzos necesarios y dirigidos a compartir un cotidiano "otramente comunitario" más igualitario, equilibrado y pacífico. / Resum Esta tesi es proposa com un treball de traducció, com a temptativa de transmetre un context que involucra els cossos, entrellaçant els relats genealògics amb els geopolítics. Investiguem el cos en acció al nord-est italià -el nostre context d'origen- des d'una perspectiva desarrelada: ja que a partir de 2004 estem establides en el sud-oest europeu (València). Recollim i analitzem algunes expressions artístiques legitimades -com el ballet clàssic, la dansa modern jazz, les propostes futuristes pròximes a la performance, o l'anatomia artística- així com aquelles expressions populars de dones subalternes realitzades al treball, a la vida i temps quotidià. Expressions que al llarg de la Guerra Freda, el Feixisme i la República de Venècia han creat la nostra cultura de referència. A pesar de la construcció de la identitat contemporània europea -que aspira homologar les diferències cap al projecte capitalista i el consum del present- el llegat dels cossos subalterns és capaç de resistir i transmetre genealogies -herències d'històries sotmeses o assimilades- generadores de pràctiques pròximes a les artístiques: com el cant o "el ganxillo". Aquest últim de fet serà la nostra metodologia ja que ens permet desmuntar trames que se'ns presenten fetes i reteixir -amb una certa simultaneïtat- cada cosa amb un orde i un sentit diferent, no estructurat per les perspectives ideològiques i econòmiques pròpies del context de referència, sinó fer-ho a aprtir de referències genealògiques. Per açò la cronologia d'esta tesi és contrària a les sèries temporals més comunes i acaba amb l'estudi de la Serenissima (la República de Venècia) un exemple d'organització proto-capitalista que ens fa tornar a l'actualitat. Les diàspores del sud i est global ens ajuden a responsabilitzar-nos del procés de-colonial que occident necessita emprendre. Els relats colonials que travessen també les cultures subalternes del nostre context i les nostres famílies demostren com han triat blanquejar-seen la seua emancipació cap al dominant. És a dir, adherir-se al projecte nacional imperialista que és hui -també- capitalista. Encaminar-se per tant en processos "d'esdevindre minoritaris" -que aspiren a perdre poder- permet realitzar una anàlisi que intente acostar-se a la veritat dels cossos en acció, posant veu als silencis que conserven les seues posicions dominants. Considerem aquestos esforços necessaris i dirigits a compartir un quotidià "altrament comunitari" més igualitari, equilibrat i pacífic. / Schiavon, C. (2017). Análisis del contexto cultural del noreste italiano en tres épocas distintas: la Guerra Fría, el Fascismo y la República de Venecia según las Genealogías de diferentes cuerpos en acción: bailarinas, feministas, performers futuristas, balie, mondine e impiraresse [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90529

Sport and dance injuries have increased despite improvements in coaching techniques and medical care. Other factors, including psychological ones, were therefore thought to play a role in injury vulnerability. Most of the attempts to explain how psychological variables can affect an athlete's predisposition to injury have been based on anxiety or stress concepts. In this survey type study an interactive approach to stress has been adopted with the goal of finding a relationship between stress and injury in a group of professional ballet dancers. No simple direct relationship was found. Multiple regression analysis was performed and a more complicated relationship between stress indicators and injury was found. When an attempt was made to investigate the significant interaction, no significant correlations were found. However, the correlations were found to be large and negative. This could indicate that if the sample size had been larger significant correlations may have been found. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

Sport and dance injuries have increased despite improvements in coaching techniques and medical care. Other factors, including psychological ones, were therefore thought to play a role in injury vulnerability. Most of the attempts to explain how psychological variables can affect an athlete's predisposition to injury have been based on anxiety or stress concepts. In this survey type study an interactive approach to stress has been adopted with the goal of finding a relationship between stress and injury in a group of professional ballet dancers. No simple direct relationship was found. Multiple regression analysis was performed and a more complicated relationship between stress indicators and injury was found. When an attempt was made to investigate the significant interaction, no significant correlations were found. However, the correlations were found to be large and negative. This could indicate that if the sample size had been larger significant correlations may have been found. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

The general aim of this research is the development of categories and codes (according to Saldaña's terminology, 2009) of the uses, functions and properties of the floor in dance. We have followed a methodology based on the qualitative analysis of a video corpus of dance works that were selected representive of a specific language (classical, modern and new dance) or as belonging to a particular historical moment (our research ranges from the end of the 19th century to the present), although some choreographies have also been included due to their contribution to the use of the floor in dance. In addition, this selection has been restricted by the availability of the works in video format. The final list of the works we have been analysing makes a total of 295 choreographies, 11 of which have been examined in depth so as to develop a qualitative codification. Once the categories had been established, the different aspects of the corpus of dances could be finally described and, in each category, the codes, which are the values of the dances, were also constituted. From the video-based qualitative analysis we propose different categories, grouped into three meta-categories focusing on the body techniques, the characteristics of the ground/floor, and the representation. / El objetivo general de esta investigación es el desarrollo de categorías y códigos (según la terminología de Saldaña, 2009) de los usos, funciones y características del suelo en la danza, por lo que hemos seguido una metodología basada en el análisis cualitativo de un corpus de videos de obras dancísticas, seleccionadas por ser representativas de un lenguaje concreto (clásico, moderno y new dance) o por pertenecer a un momento histórico determinado (nuestra investigación parte desde finales del siglo XIX y llega hasta la época actual), aunque también hemos incluido algunas coreografías que consideramos relevantes por su aportación respecto al uso del suelo. Esta selección también se ha visto condicionada a la disponibilidad en formato video de las obras. El listado final de obras sobre las que hemos trabajado ha sido del orden de 400 coreografías, de las cuales 11 han sido analizadas en profundidad para desarrollar la codificación cualitativa, estableciendo unas categorías de análisis que han permitido describir los diferentes aspectos del corpus de danzas, y en cada categoría, establecer unos códigos que son los valores que pueden adquirir las danzas. Este trabajo de visionado ha tenido como resultado del análisis cualitativo diversas categorías, y nos hemos centrado en las relativas al cuerpo, a las propiedades del suelo para la danza y a la representación.. / Aquesta investigació te com a objectiu el desenvolupament de categories i codis (segons terminologia de Saldaña, 2009) dels usos, funcions i caracterítiques del sòl a la dansa, per la qual cosa hem seguit una metodologia d'anàlisi qualitativa d'un corpus de vídeos de dansa, seleccionats perquè són representatius dels diferents llenguatges (clàssic, modern i new dance) o perquè pertanyen a un moment històric determinat (la nostra investigació s'inicia a finals del segle XIX i arriba fins a l'època actual), encara que també hi hem inclòs algunes coreografies que considerem rellevants per la seua aportació a la dansa en l'ús del sòl. La selecció s'ha vist condicionada a la disponibilitat de les obres en format vídeo, essent un total de vora 295 les coreografies analitzades, de les quals 11 han estat treballades en profunditat per al desenvolupament de la codificació qualitativa, constituïnt unes categories d'anàlisi que han permés descriure els diferents aspectes del corpus de danses, i establint a cada categoria uns codis com a resultat dels valors que les danses poden adquirir. Aquest treball de visionat presenta, com a resultat de l'anàlisi qualitativa, diverses categories, i la nostra investigació s'ha centrat en les que són estrictaments corporals, les referides a les propietats del sòl en relació a la dansa i les de la seua representació. / Arnal Rodrigo, RV. (2017). El suelo en la danza: uso del cuerpo y propiedades del soporte [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90449

Цель магистерской диссертации заключается в выявлении редакторской специфики создания контент-маркетинговой стратегии театральных корпоративных изданий с последующим составлением рекомендаций. Редакторский подход к созданию контент-маркетинговой стратегии театрального корпоративного издания определяет новизну исследования. Материалом для исследования послужили театральные корпоративные издания «Урал Опера Балет» и Московского театра «Новая Опера». Общий объем проанализированного материала составил более 1200 текстов разных жанров и свыше 1950 иллюстраций из 135 выпусков. В фокусе исследовательского внимания оказались заметки, интервью и фотография как визуальный жанр. В процессе исследования были проанализированы коммуникативные тактики в материалах заметки и интервью, способствующие решению задач, поставленных контент-маркетинговой стратегией. Коммуникативные тактики были разделены на четыре группы – сопоставительные, воздействующие, самопрезентации, взаимоотношений со зрителем. Общими для театральных корпоративных изданий «Урал Опера Балет» и Московского театра «Новая Опера» являются тактики заботы и участия, «проблемное поле», ожидания положительной оценки, ценностной ориентации. Таким образом, издания не только формируют позитивный образ театров и транслируют их ценности, но и открыто обозначают существующие проблемы. По результатам анализа визуального контента предложена классификация жанров фотографии театральных корпоративных изданий. Было выделено три жанра – фоторепортаж, портретное и объектное фотоизображения, которые подразделяются на поджанры. Фоторепортаж представлен сценой из спектакля, фото с репетиции, событийным фото, фотоальбомом. Портретные фотоизображения имеют следующие разновидности: актер в роли, человек за работой, репортажный, постановочный, архивный. Объектные фотоизображения разделяются на фотографии театральных декораций, костюмов, интерьеров, документов. Перечисленные визуальные жанры, за исключением постановочного фотопортрета, помогают эффективно воздействовать на аудиторию и достигать целей театральной организации. При опоре на положительный и отрицательный опыт рассмотренных СМИ театральным корпоративным изданиям был предложен перечень рекомендаций для создания текстового и визуального контента. / The purpose of the master's thesis is to identify the editorial specifics of the content-marketing strategy of the theatrical corporate publications, followed by recommendations. The editorial approach to creating the content-marketing strategy for the theatrical corporate publication determines the novelty of the research. The foundation for the research was the theatrical corporate publications of «Ural Opera Ballet» and the Moscow theater «New Opera». The total volume of the analyzed material was more than 1200 texts of different genres and more than 1950 illustrations from 135 editions. Notes, interviews and photography as a visual genre were in focus of research attention. During the process of research, the communicative tactics were analyzed by the notes and interviews. These tactics contribute to the solution of the tasks, which are set by the content-marketing strategy. Communicative tactics were divided into four groups – comparative, influencing, self-presentation, relationship with the viewer. Tactics of care and participation, «problem field», expectations of positive evaluation, value orientation are common for theater corporate publications of «Ural Opera Ballet» and the Moscow theater «New Opera». Thus, the publications not only form a positive image of theaters and transmit their values, but also openly identify existing problems. The classification of genres of photography of theatrical corporate publications is proposed based on the results of the analysis of visual content. There were highlighted three genres: photo reportage, portrait and object photo images, which were subdivided into subgenres. A photo reportage is presented by a scene from a performance, by a photo from a rehearsal, by an event photo, by a photo album. Portrait photo images have the following varieties: actor in the role, person at work, reporting, staged, archived. Object photo images are divided into photographs of theatrical scenery, costumes, interiors, documents. The listed visual genres, with the exception of a staged photo portrait, help to effectively influence on the audience and achieve the goals of the theatrical organization. The list of recommendations for the creation of text and visual content was proposed to the theater corporate publications based on the positive and negative experience of the reviewed media.

Ausgehend von Oskar Schlemmers (1888-1943) Bauhaus-Signet aus dem Jahr 1923 analysiert diese Arbeit den Zusammenhang zwischen Mensch und Raum im Œuvre des Bauhaus-Meisters. Die bei Betrachtung des Signets aufkommende These, Mensch und Raum – die zwei tradierten Pole des Schaffens Schlemmers – bedingten sich gegenseitig, wird untersucht, hinterfragt und um die Kategorie der Kunstfigur erweitert. Das erste Kapitel beleuchtet den Menschen als Maß aller Dinge. Der angestrebte Typus entsteht einerseits über Schlemmers Analyse des menschlichen Körpers mittels tradierter Proportionsstudien und Geometrisierung, die zu einer zumindest scheinbaren Berechenbarkeit führen. Betrachtet werden hierbei die Ausführungen Leonardo da Vincis, Albrecht Dürers und Adolf Zeisings. Andererseits nutzt Schlemmer die physiognomischen Überlegungen Richarda Huchs und Carl Gustav Carus‘ für seine Zwecke der Darstellung einer Entindividualisierung des Menschen. Hierauf aufbauend befasst sich das zweite Kapitel mit dem Raum. Es zeigt, dass Schlemmers Überlegungen zu theoretischem und gebautem Raum ihren Ursprung in Albert Einsteins Relativitätstheorie nehmen und von Debatten am Bauhaus genährt werden: Schlemmer betrachtet den Raum als wandelbar und abhängig vom Menschen, was unter anderem durch eigene Schriften und den einzig überlieferten Architekturentwurf Schlemmers gefestigt wird. Zur Untersuchung einer umgekehrten Einflussnahme des Raumes auf den menschlichen Körper erweitert das dritte Kapitel die zwei tradierten Pole des Schlemmer’schen Œuvres um einen weiteren: die Kunstfigur. Diese, so belegt das Kapitel, generiert ihre eigene Körperlichkeit über den Einfluss des veränderlichen Raumes, darüber hinaus aber auch durch die Abstrahierung des zugrundeliegenden menschlichen Körpers mittels des Kostüms und der Maske. Über diese beiden wiederum vollzieht sich auch eine Wandlung des Menschen. / Taking the Bauhaus signet, designed by Oskar Schlemmer in 1923, as a starting point, the present thesis examines the relationship between man and space – the two consistently named poles of Schlemmer’s work – within the œuvre of the Bauhaus master. It analyzes, questions and expands the assumption, at first glance suggested by the signet, that space and man are mutually dependent: The first chapter deals with man as the measure of all things. The type pursued by Schlemmer results, on the one hand, from his analysis of man via proportion and geometric studies by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer and Adolf Zeising that lead to a certain calculability. On the other hand, Schlemmer uses physiognomic ideas of Richarda Huch and Carl Gustav Carus to depict a certain de-individualization. Based on the results of the first chapter, the second chapter deals with questions of space. It shows that Schlemmer’s considerations of theoretical space and architecture stem from Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and are fed by Bauhaus debates on that same topic: Schlemmer regards space and architecture as subject to change and dependent on man; this theory is also strengthened by his writings and his only surviving architectural design. To examine the reverse influence of space on the human body, the third chapter adds the Kunstfigur (art figure) as another category to the established two poles of Schlemmer’s œuvre discussed in the literature: man and space. The chapter proves that the Kunstfigur generates its own corporeality through the influence of space, which is modifiable by movement. Besides that, said corporeality is also determined by an abstraction, in turn caused by costumes and masks. These items also influence the outer appearance of man.