In this essay I refer Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s narrative construction of the main characters and the theme of the novel The Dancers Dancing, in the context of the anthropologist Victor Turner’s concept of liminality. Thus the summer in the Gaeltacht that five teenage girls experience, can be understood as a depiction of the liminal phase in a rite of passage. Ni Dhuibhne’s differently constructed characters enlighten different aspects of liminality and through the céilí dance their experiences are exposed. Furthermore this essay suggests that Julia Kristeva’s notion of the chora, which can be associated to dance, is also relevant when describing the unbounded and unlimited process that radically can reform social structures. I conclude that the liminal space offers an area of many possibilities. It functions as a free zone where the main characters can freely explore their personal issues that trouble them, or the difficulties of their own society.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, The Divinity School, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Note: / This thesis examines the manner in which Yeats developed the dancer as a literary symbol and discusses the meanings the symbol acquired as a result of that development. There is a chapter on historical background to the dance and another on what Yeats meant by symbol. The operation of the dancer is examined in detail in the following early poems: "Who Goes with Fergus?" "The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland" and "The Host of the Air." The development is examined in some later poems, such as "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" and others to establish the nature of the change leading toward the dancer's humanisation and toward its acquiring additional meaning because of its assocaition with other symbols, for example, tree and dragon: waht yeats called The Great Procession. "Among School Children" is examined in detail as an example of the operation of the completed symbol. [...]

Pastaruoju metu Lietuvą užvaldė realybės šou žanras. Dabar televizjos ir interneto dėka mes galime stebėti begalę realybės šou projektų, kurie atvaizduoja realų gyvenimą, kurių dėka Lietuva atranda naujų talentų arba vieniši žmonės susiranda savo meilę. Informacinės technologijos paskatino ir pramoginių šokių išpopuliarėjimą. Populiarūs televizijos šokių projektai paskatino žmones lankyti pramoginius šokius bei prisidėjo prie daugybės naujų šokių studijų atsiradimo. Mėgėjų šokėjų ir suaugusiųjų šokių mokymosi ypatumai pakankamai plačiai išanalizuoti mokslinėje literatūroje, tačiau iki šiol neaišku, ar mokymasis šokti dalyvaujant televizijos šokių projekte skiriasi nuo tradicinio mokymosi šokių studijose. Tyrimo objektu pasirinktas mėgėjų pramoginio šokio mokymas televizijos projekte metu. Tyrimo tikslas –išanalizuoti mėgėjų pramoginio šokio mokymo, dalyvaujant televizijos šokių projekte, ypatumus. Atlikus temai aktualios literatūros analizę, išsiaiškinta, kad televizija daro didelę įtaką asmenybei, ji pateikia gyvenimo būdo modelius, elgesio normas, vertybių sistemą. Žiūrėdami televiziją, žmonės įgyja galimybę išmokti daugelį naujų dalykų, pvz., šokti. Suaugusiųjų mokymas šokti turi savo ypatumų – mokytojas privalo atsižvelgti į jų fizines, psichologines, socialines charakteristikas. Siekiant atskleisti mėgėjų šokėjų, dalyvaujančių televizijos projekte, mokymo ypatumus, buvo atlikta šokių projektų dalyvių – mėgėjų šokėjų ir choreografų mokytojų apklausa. Tyrime dalyvavo 9... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In recent years Lithuanian television has been taken over by the reality TV show genre. Due to television and Internet we have the opportunity to watch many reality shows, representing real life and enabling us to discover new talents or help people to find new love. Advancemenet in IT technologies enabled the popularisation of ballroom dance. Popular dance TV shows stimualted public interest in ballroom dance, which lead to the opening many more new dance studios. The aspects of social dancers‘ and adults‘ teaching are well described in academic literature. But it is still unlear wether training for the reality TV project is different from training in dance studio. The object of the study is training of social dancers engaged in the reality dance TV project. The study is aimed at analyzing the aspects of social dancers participating in reality TV projects. The analysis of literature revealed teh great influence of television on personality. Television provides lifestyle, behavior norms, social values. Reality TV projects provide the opportunity for people to learn lots of new things (e. g. dance). Adult dance training is influenced by participants‘ physical, psychological and socials characteristics. In order to discover the features of training social dancers‘ participating in TV dance projects, the survey was conducted. Nine social dancers (3 female, 6 male) and two choreographers (male and female) participated in the survey. The survey revealed different aimes for... [to full text]

This thesis proposes that Yeats found in certain conventions of the Noh drama a realization and defense of his idea of unity of culture, which his Noh-like Four Plays for Dancers illustrates. Yeats' use of recurrent imagery in the dance plays expresses his belief in a unity of culture defined and evoked by an image and stems in part from the pattern of images he discovered in the Pound-Fenollosa translations of the Noh. The imagery of the poetic text reappears in symbolic visual designs or is coordinated with music and dance in the production of the plays. The importance of the spoken word above all determined the basis of the association of arts with which Yeats characterized unity of culture and shaped his adaptation and occasional misconception of the staging techniques of the Noh. A common love of vivid, allusive words joined the audience for whom the dance plays were written. When Yeats stated that they were modelled on the audience of the Noh, his perception was colored, as usual, by his own priorities and experience.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47). / iii, 47 leaves, bound 29 cm

Thesis (MA (Hons.)) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1999. / Bibliography : leaves 94-98.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Communications and Culture. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-291). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR51686

Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-141). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-141). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.