In the year 1900, ballroom dancing consisted of mainly the Waltz, the Polka, and a few other folk dances that had lasted since the late seventeenth century. For over a century, the Waltz had been the favorite dance of ballroom dancers, who typically consisted of the upper class white society. Religious organizations were very much apposed to the Waltz and all ballroom dances, claiming that ballroom dancing was the work of the devil. At the beginning of the twentieth century, ballroom dancing began to change dramatically as Americans found themselves intrigued by other cultures, especially African trance and folk dancers in the Americas. Now, one century later, ballroom dancing consists of over thirteen dances that are highly defined and have many roots in the African culture. In this thesis, I show that ballroom dancing has traditionally been a mostly white (and historically elite white) style of dance whose roots lie deep within the African slave trade and the traditions, rituals, and music that Africans brought with them across the Atlantic. Despite the historically white-dominated society in the Americas, ballroom dancing would not be what it is today had it not been for elements of African culture transcending racial lines and being incorporated into white culture. I hope to demonstrate that ballroom dancing was an exercise of taking many elements of African music and dance and blending them with the conservative mannerisms of the elite white class, thus creating what the latter would consider "civilized dancing."

I denna uppsats undersöks erfarenheterna och attityderna som sex pardansare har kring heteronormativitet inom dansen. Deras tankar kring olika roller och betydelser kring danserna fångas upp i intervjuer och tolkas och analyseras sedan via queerteorin och det dramaturgiska perspektivet som utgångspunkten i analysen av sociala situationer. Resultaten visar att heteronormativiteten lever inom sporten pardans via traditioner från förr och de regleringar som finns idag men också genom de attityder som ungdomarna besitter och uttrycker. Dansarna själva uttryckte sig om att förändring inom dansen kan rubba dansen värdegrunder och göra sporten till något helt annat än vad den alltid har varit.Pardansen har inte ofta varit objekt för forskning vilket medfört att jag förlitar mig på mina intervjuer och väljer att göra en icke generaliserbar uppsats då det är erfarenheter, individuella tankar och tolkningar står som grund för min analys. Jag har även plockat alla dansare från samma klubb vilket har genererat till att de har haft liknande svar till den del frågor vilket kan tänkas leda till deras tränare som jag därefter har intervjuat med andra frågor.Min slutsats är den att pardansen i sig ses som en feminin sport men utövar heteronormativa värden som präglar dansarna då det enligt utövarna är otänkbart att hålla kvar vid dansens värdegrunder och samtidigt dansa samkönat på elitnivå. Pardansenarna i denna skåneförening har en heteronormativ syn på dansen och dess betydelse som idrott och kulturbevarande aktivitet. / This thesis explore the experiences of heteronormativity of six ballroom dancers. Their own thoughts on different roles and meaning behind the dances have been captured in interviews. Later translated and analysed through Queer theory and Erving Goffmans dramaturgical perspective theory where he enlightens us about his perspective on social situations as performances based upon the conviction of persuasion. Discovering that heteronormativity lives within the sport as traditions from past times and upheld by rules and guidelines, and attitudes expressed by the dancers. The dancers themselves agree on changing the rules of the sport is making the meaning of ballroom dancing less accurate matching the history of the sport which seems to be the pillar of ballroom dancing. Heteronormativity is the main subject of this thesis.

Este trabalho trata da circulação de notícias do maxixe brasileiro nos jornais estadunidenses no começo do século XX. Os periódicos colhidos no repositório Newspaperarchive foram sistematizados nos moldes de um corpus documental. Este foi o principal objetivo do trabalho ora apresentado: produzir um instrumento de pesquisa através da construção de uma coletânea com todas as matérias a respeito do maxixe brasileiro, publicadas nos jornais dos Estados Unidos, na forma de anúncios, artigos, contos, notas, notícias e poemas, entre 1906 momento em que encontramos a primeira notícia focalizando o tema , e o final dos anos 1930, quando já vinha se desenvolvendo no Brasil uma música tipicamente nacional e os produtos da cultura brasileira já tinham circulado pelo mundo, especialmente Europa e Estados Unidos. No período estudado, música popular é música de divertimento, feita para dançar. Dançar nos salões do Brasil, nos dancings de Paris, nos ballrooms americanos, mais do que moda, era uma forma de participar da sociedade, de se inteirar das novidades, dos passos mais conhecidos, afinal a música popular e a dança coreográfica são expressões artísticas que transitam entre as diferentes classes sociais. O maxixe nasceu miscigenado, reflete a misturada de ritmos e gêneros, presentes no Brasil desde o século XVIII, como o batuque, o lundu (ambos de matriz africana). Mas, recebeu também forte influência de gêneros europeus como a modinha, e mais tarde da polca (século XIX) e do choro uma invenção brasileira. Como toda dança, causou escândalo quando surgiu, em virtude dos movimentos considerados ousados, extravagantes e lascivos. Pouco a pouco, os passos exibidos nos cabarés do Rio de Janeiro transformaram-se, adequando-se aos ambientes dignos da sociedade brasileira, e é assim que passam a ocupar os salões frequentados pelas classes mais abastadas. No eixo internacional, Paris foi a bússola que orientou e pautou os códigos de comportamento no mundo inteiro, principalmente durante a Belle Époque. As viagens de músicos, agentes, mecenas etc. e de objetos sonoros através do Atlântico são vistas pela perspectiva da transculturação. O contato entre grupos de culturas diferentes contribui para que os artistas e sua arte se transformem e isso ocorre independente do processo de dominação econômica, uma vez que todos passam por mudanças (dominados e dominantes). Por outro lado, o conceito de triangulação é apropriado para compreender o modo como circulam os objetos sonoros e dançantes, e proporciona o mapeamento dos lugares por onde transitaram tais objetos, colaborando para a percepção dos aspectos que estão em jogo na circulação deles. Nos Estados Unidos, as escolas, as universidades e a técnica, de um lado; e a família e os professores de dança, de outro, foram centrais ao processo de branqueamento que permitiu a aceitação do maxixe. Por outro lado, o teatro de caráter trovadoresco - onde se inclui o vaudeville e, mais tarde, os musicais no teatro e no cinema, colaboraram para que a música e a dança maxixe continuassem presentes naquele país, avançando além dos anos 1930. A difusão do maxixe obedeceu à lógica da indústria cultural, articulando-se aos mecanismos de reprodutibilidade próprios do mercado. / This paper explores the circulation of Brazilian maxixe news in American newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. The journals collected in the Newspaperarchive repository were systematized in the form of a documentary corpus. This was the main objective of the work presented here: to produce a research instrument through the construction of a collection of all the Brazilian maxixe materials, published in the United States newspapers, in the form of advertisements, articles, short stories, notes, news and poems, between 1906 - when we found the first news focusing on the theme - and the late 1930s, when Brazilian music was already developing in Brazil, and the products of Brazilian culture had already circulated throughout the world, especially in Europe and the United States. In the period studied, popular music is fun music, made for dancing. Dancing in the halls of Brazil, in the dancings of Paris, in the American ballrooms, more than fashion, was a way to participate in society, to find out about the news, the best known steps, after all, popular music and choreographic dance are artistic expressions which pass through the different social classes. Maxixe was born miscegenated, reflects the \"mixed\" rhythms and genres, present in Brazil since before the 18th century, such as the batuque, the lundu (both African matrix). But it was also strongly influenced by European genres such as modinha, and later by the polka (19th century) and choro - a Brazilian invention. Like all dance, it caused scandal when it arose, by virtue of the movements considered daring, extravagant and lascivious. Little by little, the steps displayed in the cabarets of Rio de Janeiro were transformed, adapting themselves to the \"dignified\" places of Brazilian society, and that is how they began to occupy the ballrooms frequented by the wealthiest classes. On the international axis, Paris was the compass that guided and led the codes of behavior throughout the world, especially during the Belle Époque. The trips of musicians, agents, patrons, etc. and sound objects across the Atlantic are seen from the perspective of transculturation. The contact between groups of different cultures contributes to the transformation of artists and their art, and this occurs independently of the process of economic domination, since all undergo changes (dominated and dominant). On the other hand, the concept of triangulation is appropriate to understand the way the sound and dance objects circulate, and it provides a mapping of the places through which these objects transited, collaborating to the perception of the aspects that are at play in their circulation. In the United States, schools, universities and technique, on the one hand; And family and dance teachers on the other, were central to the bleaching process that allowed the acceptance of the maxixe. On the other hand, theater like a vaudeville and, later, musicals in the theater and in the cinema, collaborated so that the music and the maxixe dance continued present in that country, advancing beyond the 1930s. Diffusion of the maxixe obeyed the logic of the cultural industry, articulating itself to the mechanisms of reproducibility proper to the market.

Šiame darbe nagrinėjamas 7–9 metų amžiaus vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimas pramoginio ir šiuolaikinio šokio studijose. Pažymėtina, jog neformalaus švietimo srityje dirbantys pramoginio šokio mokytojai suvokdami vaikų kūrybos poreikį ir reikalingumą, neretai apsiriboja tik šokio atlikimo technikos tobulinimu, nepaiso naujų šiuolaikinių švietimo gairių, nesidomi Lietuvos Respublikos įstatymais. Šokio pamokose naudoja savo sukurtus veiklos modelius, kurie skurdina pamoką, nesuteikia galimybės vaiko kritinio mąstymo tobulėjimui. Tyrimo objektas: 7–9 metų vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimas. Tyrimo tikslas – atskleisti 7–9 metų vaikų kūrybinės veiklos organizavimo pramoginio ir šiuolaikinio šokio studijose ypatumus. / In this paper is about how to organize creative activities for children of age from 7 till 9 years in ballroom and contemporary dance studios. It should be noted that informal education teachers of ballroom dance understands need and necessity for children's creativity. But their teachings are often limited to dance technique improvements, ignoring modern education guidelines and laws of the Republic of Lithuania. In dance classes teachers use their own teaching models, which impoverishing the lesson and restricts from development of children critical thinking. Object of research: dance creativity activities for children aged from 7 till 9 years. Purpose of the research: to reveal the how dance creativity activities are organized during ballroom and contemporary dance studies for children aged from 7 till 9 years.

De que maneira a relação entre o contexto histórico, o imaginário do tango argentino e o método Dinzel de ensinamento é capaz de contribuir para o ensino e a aprendizagem do tango dança? Esta foi a pergunta que norteou este trabalho de dissertação. O presente texto apresenta informações históricas, contextualizadas socioculturalmente, e sintetiza o método de dança do professor e Tangueiro Rodolfo Dinzel e suas aplicações práticas. Entremeado com estes conteúdos, o autor revela suas descobertas como tangueiro e como professor de tango no decorrer deste estudo, e juntamente com suas descobertas traz contribuições contextuais da prática pessoal no tango. Esta dissertação se concentra na área de Práticas e processos em artes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes da UFU e tem como objetivo oferecer aos interessados um texto funcional para o ensinoaprendizagem do tango em âmbito extra-acadêmico. Intenta-se com isso facilitar uma vivência significativa do processo de aprendizagem, uma vez que se propõe ser uma ferramenta para reinventar continuamente as formas de ensinar. Nesta perspectiva o aluno é convidado a descobrir o seu próprio bailar. E por fim, chegamos a conclusão de que o método Dinzel pode contribuir exponencialmente para a qualidade e consciência do bailado do tango. / In which way is the relation between the historical context, the imagination of the Argentine tango and the Dinzel teaching method able to contribute for the education and learning of the tango? This was the question that guided this dissertation project. This text presents historical socioculturally contextualized data; it summarizes the teacher and Tanguero Rodolfo Dinzel’s dance method and its practical applications. Interspersed with these contents, the author reveals his findings as a Tanguero and tango teacher throughout this study; and along with his findings, he makes contextual contributions considering his personal tango practice. The goal of this dissertation, which is focused on the area of artistic practices and processes of the Postgraduate Program in Arts of UFU, is to offer a functional text for the education and learning process of the tango, in an environment that can go beyond the university walls. Proposed as a tool to continuously reinvent the way of teaching tango, this dissertation aims to facilitate the creation of a meaningful experience of the learning process. In this perspective, students are invited to discover their own way of dancing. As a conclusion, one can say that the Dinzel method is able to contribute exponentially to the quality and awareness in the tango dance. / Dissertação (Mestrado)

Este trabalho trata da circulação de notícias do maxixe brasileiro nos jornais estadunidenses no começo do século XX. Os periódicos colhidos no repositório Newspaperarchive foram sistematizados nos moldes de um corpus documental. Este foi o principal objetivo do trabalho ora apresentado: produzir um instrumento de pesquisa através da construção de uma coletânea com todas as matérias a respeito do maxixe brasileiro, publicadas nos jornais dos Estados Unidos, na forma de anúncios, artigos, contos, notas, notícias e poemas, entre 1906 momento em que encontramos a primeira notícia focalizando o tema , e o final dos anos 1930, quando já vinha se desenvolvendo no Brasil uma música tipicamente nacional e os produtos da cultura brasileira já tinham circulado pelo mundo, especialmente Europa e Estados Unidos. No período estudado, música popular é música de divertimento, feita para dançar. Dançar nos salões do Brasil, nos dancings de Paris, nos ballrooms americanos, mais do que moda, era uma forma de participar da sociedade, de se inteirar das novidades, dos passos mais conhecidos, afinal a música popular e a dança coreográfica são expressões artísticas que transitam entre as diferentes classes sociais. O maxixe nasceu miscigenado, reflete a misturada de ritmos e gêneros, presentes no Brasil desde o século XVIII, como o batuque, o lundu (ambos de matriz africana). Mas, recebeu também forte influência de gêneros europeus como a modinha, e mais tarde da polca (século XIX) e do choro uma invenção brasileira. Como toda dança, causou escândalo quando surgiu, em virtude dos movimentos considerados ousados, extravagantes e lascivos. Pouco a pouco, os passos exibidos nos cabarés do Rio de Janeiro transformaram-se, adequando-se aos ambientes dignos da sociedade brasileira, e é assim que passam a ocupar os salões frequentados pelas classes mais abastadas. No eixo internacional, Paris foi a bússola que orientou e pautou os códigos de comportamento no mundo inteiro, principalmente durante a Belle Époque. As viagens de músicos, agentes, mecenas etc. e de objetos sonoros através do Atlântico são vistas pela perspectiva da transculturação. O contato entre grupos de culturas diferentes contribui para que os artistas e sua arte se transformem e isso ocorre independente do processo de dominação econômica, uma vez que todos passam por mudanças (dominados e dominantes). Por outro lado, o conceito de triangulação é apropriado para compreender o modo como circulam os objetos sonoros e dançantes, e proporciona o mapeamento dos lugares por onde transitaram tais objetos, colaborando para a percepção dos aspectos que estão em jogo na circulação deles. Nos Estados Unidos, as escolas, as universidades e a técnica, de um lado; e a família e os professores de dança, de outro, foram centrais ao processo de branqueamento que permitiu a aceitação do maxixe. Por outro lado, o teatro de caráter trovadoresco - onde se inclui o vaudeville e, mais tarde, os musicais no teatro e no cinema, colaboraram para que a música e a dança maxixe continuassem presentes naquele país, avançando além dos anos 1930. A difusão do maxixe obedeceu à lógica da indústria cultural, articulando-se aos mecanismos de reprodutibilidade próprios do mercado. / This paper explores the circulation of Brazilian maxixe news in American newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. The journals collected in the Newspaperarchive repository were systematized in the form of a documentary corpus. This was the main objective of the work presented here: to produce a research instrument through the construction of a collection of all the Brazilian maxixe materials, published in the United States newspapers, in the form of advertisements, articles, short stories, notes, news and poems, between 1906 - when we found the first news focusing on the theme - and the late 1930s, when Brazilian music was already developing in Brazil, and the products of Brazilian culture had already circulated throughout the world, especially in Europe and the United States. In the period studied, popular music is fun music, made for dancing. Dancing in the halls of Brazil, in the dancings of Paris, in the American ballrooms, more than fashion, was a way to participate in society, to find out about the news, the best known steps, after all, popular music and choreographic dance are artistic expressions which pass through the different social classes. Maxixe was born miscegenated, reflects the \"mixed\" rhythms and genres, present in Brazil since before the 18th century, such as the batuque, the lundu (both African matrix). But it was also strongly influenced by European genres such as modinha, and later by the polka (19th century) and choro - a Brazilian invention. Like all dance, it caused scandal when it arose, by virtue of the movements considered daring, extravagant and lascivious. Little by little, the steps displayed in the cabarets of Rio de Janeiro were transformed, adapting themselves to the \"dignified\" places of Brazilian society, and that is how they began to occupy the ballrooms frequented by the wealthiest classes. On the international axis, Paris was the compass that guided and led the codes of behavior throughout the world, especially during the Belle Époque. The trips of musicians, agents, patrons, etc. and sound objects across the Atlantic are seen from the perspective of transculturation. The contact between groups of different cultures contributes to the transformation of artists and their art, and this occurs independently of the process of economic domination, since all undergo changes (dominated and dominant). On the other hand, the concept of triangulation is appropriate to understand the way the sound and dance objects circulate, and it provides a mapping of the places through which these objects transited, collaborating to the perception of the aspects that are at play in their circulation. In the United States, schools, universities and technique, on the one hand; And family and dance teachers on the other, were central to the bleaching process that allowed the acceptance of the maxixe. On the other hand, theater like a vaudeville and, later, musicals in the theater and in the cinema, collaborated so that the music and the maxixe dance continued present in that country, advancing beyond the 1930s. Diffusion of the maxixe obeyed the logic of the cultural industry, articulating itself to the mechanisms of reproducibility proper to the market.

Title: Judging systems of competitions in dance sport from judges point of view Objectives: The main goal of the thesis is to introduce the absolute judging system used on a dances sport competitions 3.0 to a wider public, and to describe differences between absolute judging systems 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0. Next goal is to map opinions, knowledge and attitudes of the TOP judges of the CDSF towards the judging systems of the dance sport. Methods: To obtain the necessary data for the elaboration of the thesis was used a method of electronic questionnaires. For the elaboration of a theoretical part of the thesis were used primary sources, professional literature and experts' own materials. Result: The thesis maps used systems of dance sport in the Czech Republic and abroad and their main progress towards objective and measurable judging. Based on survey, the questionnaire reveals the knowledge, opinions and attitudes of the Czech TOP judges towards System 3.0. In fact, the thesis is a breakthrough, because even though the absolute judging system 3.0 is already used in practice, there is still no Czech written documentation of its work or usage. Keywords: Dance sport, Latin, Ballroom, Dance, Judges, Judging systems, Sport, The questionnaire

The subject of this project documentation for building is new building of Ballroom dance club in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm conected with current building of cinema. Object is situated in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm in region of Nový Jičín. The target of this diploma thesis was design of public building for cultural enjoying with using current spaces in the locality to fulfill requirements of investor. The thesis is devided into parts of preparing, situating, documentation to be involved into the surrounding.

The thesis examines the phenomenon of nonverbal communication via dance from the perspective of anthropology of dance. The objective of the thesis is to analyze the dance environment of contemporary and ballroom dance, based on the point of view of the dancers as well as of the audience. I determine the differences in the ways these forms of dance communicate through dance performances. I examine how dance functions as a means of language, on which level the communication is processing and what meanings and messages the audience decodes within the dance performance. The phenomenon of dance in its natural environment is studied semiotically, as a form of language in certain context. The fieldwork method is based on participant observation and semistructured interviews with both dancers and audience. The research was conducted in the studio of Nová scéna - Lidé v pohybu in Prague, which teaches contemporary dance, and in the dance club Akcent Dobruška, which focuses on ballroom dance. Keywords: Anthropology of Dance, Nonverbal Communication, Contemporary Dance, Ballroom Dance, Semiology, Performance, Audience, Meaning.

Basic element of competitive Dance Sport is the dance couple. For being succesful, it's needed to master the combination of specific dance skills, sport skills, stress resilience and skills connected to dance partnership, mainly communication skills and conflict resolution skills. Since the scientific research of conflict resolution among competitive couples is very scarce, aim of our explorative qualitative research is to understand how Latin Dance Sport couples experience conflicts and their subjective meaning of partnership in competitive dance. Experiences of dancers of various dance classes and their trainers were gathered using questionnaire (= 43) and half-structured interviews (= 13). Based on themati analysis, relevant themes were identified and described, and explanatory model further based on activity theory, game theory and theory of interdependence was proposed. Model suggests that contradiction of two different motives (competitive success vs. partner relationship) in the activity systems of competitive dance predisposes possible complex relationships between (implicit and/or explicit) aims of dancers, their type of partnership, possible expressed conflicts and their preferred styles of conflict resolution (based on the unique context of every dance couple). Relevant identified themes...