Addressing the comprehensive needs of individuals with brain injuries is a growing concern in brain injury rehabilitation as well as evaluating the efficacy of these conventional therapeutic modalities: cognitive rehabilitation, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies. Therapeutic dance/movement has not been an integral part of these core services. I have observed its potential, however, during the past thirteen years while providing this intervention to individuals with brain injuries. The focus of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of a therapeutic dance/movement intervention for individuals with brain injuries by comparing it to conventional physical therapy. Physical therapy, given its longevity in providing rehabilitative services to individuals with brain injuries, afforded a means by which to more systematically explore therapeutic dance/movement. Five individuals with brain injuries were observed and analyzed as they participated in five weekly therapeutic dance/movement sessions and five weekly physical therapy sessions. Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) was used as the observation and analytic tool for the purpose of elucidating similarities and differences between the two interventions in relation to the five case studies. Two questions guided the inquiry: (a) What are the similarities and differences between a physical therapy intervention and a dance/movement intervention? and (b) What are the dynamics of a therapeutic dance/movement intervention? Findings revealed that the physical therapy intervention focused specifically on body level connectivity and single joint action movement from a <i>Body</i> perspective. In comparison, the dance/movement intervention incorporated body level connectivity in addition to the dynamics of <i>Breath/Core Support</i> and <i>Grounding</i>, <i>Effort-Life</i>, <i>Spatial Intent</i>, and Aspects of <i>Shape</i>, providing the spectrum of <i>Body</i>, <i>Effort</i>, <i>Space</i>, and <i>Shape</i> ( <i>BESS</i>) components in harmony with the <i>Movement Themes: Whole/Part, Inner/Outer, Function/Expression, Exertion/Recuperation</i>, and <i>Mobility/Stability</i>.The dance/movement intervention imparted an integrative mind-body approach to learning about one's Inner and Outer self and one's ability to cope with and connect to one's environment. Knowledge was added to the current literature at an opportune time in the brain injury rehabilitation field. Rehabilitation professionals are recognizing the need to transform current assumptions regarding the essential aspects of brain injury rehabilitation and seek additional non-medical model approaches to rehabilitation. This study offers a therapeutic modality along with a viable measurement tool that has the potential for meeting this need. Recommendations for future research are offered. / Ph. D.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2344.pdf: 10544774 bytes, checksum: 93725fbde8755139e67f8bd4a9be77d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-27 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / This Master s Dissertation introduces a dialogue between music and dance languages in a collective music practice context, more specifically in a community orchestra. With this purpose, the researcher, dancer and dance educator shares her own experiences in the field of Music Education and discusses the interaction developed with some members of the Experimental Orchestra of the Federal University of São Carlos (São Paulo state). The aim of this research is to discuss how experiences and reflections of dance activities can contribute for self perception, perception of the other and perception of music practice in order to benefit humanizing Education. The research includes eight movement themes related to the Choreological study proposed by Preston-Dunlop. They are: Body - whole and parts; Space kinesphere; Space octahedron; Space Shape; Space Projection; Dynamics Time; Dynamics Weight; and Relationships. The interaction meetings included experiences and reflections of dance activities. The methodological approach for the interaction was the context-based Art in Education/ Dance which articulates authors as Paulo Freire and Rudolf Laban main references in this research as well as Fiori, Gainza, Kater, Koellreutter and Marques. Results discuss the speeches from conversation circles proposed at the end of each interaction meeting. Presented in a discursive way, results include the researchereducator s reflections articulated with theoretical references, and point out the contributions of this process for self perception, perception of the other and perception of music collective practice. / Esta dissertação de mestrado apresenta um diálogo entre as linguagens da música e da dança em contexto de prática musical coletiva, mais especificamente em uma orquestra comunitária. Para isso a pesquisadora, dançarina e educadora de dança compartilha suas experiências de inserção na Educação Musical e discute o processo de intervenção realizado com alguns integrantes da Orquestra Experimental da UFSCar Universidade Federal de São Carlos (SP) no primeiro semestre de 2008. A investigação qualitativa teve como objetivo discutir como a vivência e reflexão de atividades em dança podem contribuir para a percepção de si mesmo, do outro e do significado da prática musical em contexto de Orquestra Comunitária de modo a se constituir em uma Educação Humanizadora. A pesquisa aborda sete elementos do movimento relacionados ao estudo coreológico do movimento proposto por Valerie Preston-Dunlop. São eles: Corpo - partes e todo, Espaço - kinesfera, Espaço - Octaedro, Espaço Forma, Espaço - Projeção, Dinâmica -Tempo e Dinâmica - Peso. Estes temas foram selecionados pela pesquisadora a partir da sua inserção no campo onde teve oportunidade de identificar interfaces relevantes para a prática musical do grupo envolvido. Os encontros para intervenção incluíram vivência e reflexão de atividades de dança. Como base metodológica da intervenção foi adotada a Metodologia de Ensino Arte no Contexto/ Dança, que articula autores como Paulo Freire e Rudolf Laban referências centrais deste trabalho, bem como Fiori, Gainza, Kater, Koellreutter e Marques. Os procedimentos utilizados para registro dos dados foram diário de campo e filmagem. Os resultados discutem as falas presentes nas rodas de conversa propostas ao final de cada encontro de intervenção. Apresentados de forma discursiva, trazem reflexões da educadora-pesquisadora à luz do referencial teórico abordado ao longo do trabalho e apontam as contribuições desse processo para percepção de si mesmo, do outro e da prática musical coletiva.

Scholarship on Dada and Surrealism has established that psychology was a major intellectual source for artists in both groups. However, a burgeoning amount of recent work in both the history of art and of science indicates that types of psychology other than psychoanalysis permeated the historical context of the avant-garde. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, physiological psychology, for example, was the dominant science of the body and mind, which grounded psychic phenomena in structures of conduction in the nervous system. Modern artists saw within this discourse a fascinating and new theory of experience. In my selective history of the avant-garde’s reception and response to physiological psychology, I will argue that artists worked within and partially according to the basic tenets of this discourse, but that they reshaped its superstructural projections away from formations and taxonomies of normalcy in consciousness and action. / text

This thesis examines the influence the educational theories of John Dewey have had on the development of modern movement education in American schools. / It does this in three parts. Firstly through an examination of the educational writings of John Dewey within the general context of his philosophical writings and as they are directly related to pedagogical principles. Secondly through an examination of the development of movement education with particular reference to the theories of Rudolf Laban. Thirdly by tracing modern American Movement education historically and developmentally. / The third aspect examines the strong theoretical relationship between Laban and Dewey. It also illustrates the link between them as developed by the current theorists and practitioners of movement education.

Few studies have focused on how learning takes place in physical education and health (PEH) practices, and even more so in relation to artifact use. Dance is a core content in the Swedish curriculum, but according to previous research it nevertheless rarely occurs in practice due to many teachers’ lack of knowledge. Movement qualities are something that students are supposed to develop in the subject, where dance can be used as a form of activity. The aim of the licentiate thesis is to examine students’ use and development of different movement qualities in a learning process where dance exergames are used as teaching aids in the PEH practice in upper secondary school. The research questions in the study are: (1) what kind of movement qualities do students use when they interact with each other and with dance exergames, and (2) how does the learning of movement qualities occur when dance exergames are used as teaching aids? A series of seven PEH-lessons were designed. Four of the lesson had a spe-cific purpose, such as working with rhythm and coordination where the exergames Nintendo Wii Just Dance 3 and 4 were used as teaching aids. In two other lessons the students worked in groups to create their own dances, and as a final goal, at lesson seven, the groups presented their dances. All the lessons were video recorded. A framework inspired by Laban’s movement analysis was used to analyze the students’ movement qualities, based on four aspects: body, space, effort and relationship. To be able to analyze the students, the dance exergames and the context as a whole, the study involved a socio-cultural ap-proach to learning. Learning situations in the ongoing practice were also ana-lyzed, where learning was investigated as something that occurs through inter-actions between students and between students and artifacts. The results show a way to describe students’ movement qualities, which con-tribute to PEH-teachers language of knowledge in movement. The results also demonstrate that learning occurred through imitation, repetition, communica-tion, negotiation, practice, modeling, instruction and using metaphors. A con-clusion is that students’ use and development of movement qualities do not depend on the use of the dance exergames per se, instead it depends on how the dance exergames are used in PEH practice. / Forskningslinjen Utbildning

Reflections is a dance I choreographed and performed on February 25, 2022 in studio 205 Campus Center Building at East Tennessee State University. The dance explores the relationship between a dancer’s mind and body and uses mirrors and repetition to express the dancers’ perception of their flaws and insecurities. The following thesis, Reflections: Battling Body Image as a Dancer, analyzes the artistic elements of the choreographic process, my experiences as a dance student at ETSU from 2018-2022, as well as my training in my youth. My research for this thesis involves exploring the history and craft of choreography including the fundamentals of Laban Movement Analysis. In addition, my research includes a survey concerning body dysmorphia in dancers. In theory and practice, I accepted the challenge of stepping outside my comfort zone to create an emotional and physical dance composition that serves to demonstrate a dancer fighting a battle with body image.

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This thesis explores the presence of the movement theories of Irmgard Bartenieff, Peggy Hackney, and Rudolf Von Laban in the following texts: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself (1845), The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave (1831), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Linda Brent (1861), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987). The terms and phrases of movement theory will be introduced to the contemporary critical discussion already surrounding the texts, both furthering and challenging existing arguments.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-08-14Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:07:55Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 trevisan_mca_me_ia.pdf: 885979 bytes, checksum: 66089eeec0f88c3c04ec404289460eb7 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Esta pesquisa apresenta um caminho de encenar um texto teatral a partir da ação dramática de cada cena, utilizando a análise de texto e a movimentação corporal do ator como estímulos de criação, articulando, ao longo do percurso, esses dois elementos. Desenvolvemos esse trabalho fundamentados pelos estudos de Constantin Stanislávski e Rudolf Laban. Em um primeiro momento, aprofundamos nosso conhecimento sobre os dois autores e recortamos dos seus sistemas o que era pertinente a nossa proposta, isto é, os elementos que poderiam influenciar no tratamento da ação dramática. Em um segundo momento, aplicamos esses conteúdos na encenação do texto teatral O Provedor, de Marcos Benedito de Oliveira. No caminho que percorremos do texto a sua representação, confirmamos a hipótese formulada: a análise de texto segundo Stanislávski pode identificar e resumir as ações dramáticas de cada cena; por sua vez, o movimento corporal do ator preparado por meio do Sistema Laban pode executar essas ações expressivamente, estabelecendo-se, a partir do momento em que começamos a levantar o espetáculo, um diálogo dinâmico e constante entre esses dois elementos. Os resumos das ações dramáticas constituíram-se nas nossas células matrizes de criação, e a encenação foi construída e elaborada a partir deles... / This research presents a way of acting a theatrical text starting from the dramatic action in each scene, using the text analysis and the actor’s body movement as creation incentive, joining, along the movement, these two elements together. We developed this job based on Constantin Stanislávski and Rudolf Laban’s studies. In the first moment, we went deeper into our knowledge about these two authors and we took from their systems what was pertinent to our proposal, that is to say, the elements that could have influence in the treatment of the dramatic action. In the second moment, we applied these contents in the staging of the theatrical text O Provedor, of Marcos Benedito de Oliveira. From the text to the performance, we confirmed the formulated hypothesis: the text analysis according to Stanislávski can identify and summarize the dramatic actions of each scene; on the other hand, the actor’s body movement prepared by the Laban’s System can accomplish these actions meaningfully, establishing, since we started to build the show, a constant and dynamic dialog between these two elements. The summaries of the dramatic actions were formed in our creation mother cells, and the staging was built and elaborated from them. In this way, we highligt the relation between the stage score generated by the study of the text and the body movement, one supplementing and transforming the other... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Esta dissertação vem ao encontro da necessidade cada vez maior de fundamentar e abrir ao crescente número de interessados, os processos de criação em Teatro nas diferentes linguagens cênicas. A exploração de uma relação sensível e não utilitária entre sujeito e objeto está presente na vida cotidiana desde os tempos mais remotos. Assim também passou a ser na dramaturgia atual, sobretudo no que se convencionou chamar, desde meados dos anos 80, como Teatro de Objetos, uma linguagem dentro do Teatro de Animação. Esta pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar alguns elementos encontrados no método de Rudolf Laban que auxiliassem tecnicamente o trabalho de animação no Teatro de Objetos, do ponto de vista do movimento expressivo do corpo do objeto, e a possibilidade temática de composição de partituras de ações a partir da experimentação de relações poéticas inerentes a essa linguagem cênica denominadas aqui como: Poéticas de Vida, Poéticas de Risco e Poéticas de Morte. As partituras foram compostas separadamente por três estudantes do curso de Teatro da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, de acordo com cada uma das três relações poéticas, durante a realização do Laboratório Seres, até chegarmos às Partituras Essenciais. Em seguida, as partituras essenciais das ações dos objetos, filmadas e descritas pelos atores em fichas, foram analisadas dentro de quadros relacionados aos elementos espaço, tempo, peso e fluência. Por último, criamos frases de movimento descrevendo as Partituras Essenciais e localizando as suas ações, estados de espírito e situações. O estudo revelou que essa forma de análise e registro em Teatro de Objetos, possibilita tanto o aprimoramento técnico dos artistas quanto o desenvolvimento de cenas a partir de um potencial poético. / The present dissertation comes towards the increasing need to found and share with the also increasing number of interested people the creative processes in theater in its different scenic languages. The exploration of a sensitive and non-utilitarian relation between subject and object is present in daily life since earliest times. Therefore, it also became present in the current play-writting, most of all in which we call since the 80´s as ‘Theater of Objects’ - a language inside the Theater Animation. This research had as its goal to investigate some elements found in Rudolf Laban’s method — which would help technically animation work in the Theater of Objects. This help comes from the view of expressive movement in the object body as well as the possibility of composing an action score created from the experience of poetic relations inherent to the scenic language named here as Poetry of Life, Poetry of Risk, Poetry of Death . The scores were created separately by three students from the theater course of Uberlândia’s Federal University, following each of the three poetic relations during the realization of Laboratório Seres (Being Laboratory) to the arrival of Partituras Essenciais (Essential Scores). Hereupon, the Essential Scores of the objects actions, filmed and described in each actor report were analyzed through the board related to Laban´s elements, such as: space, time, weight and fluency. At last, we created movement phrases describing the Essential Scores and identifying its actions, state of spirit and situations. The studies showed that this way of analyzing and registering Theater of Object makes it possible a technical betterment of the artists as well as the development of scenes from the poetic potential. / Dissertação (Mestrado)