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This thesis explores the creative processes of intercultural performance in an Asian context, through projects undertaken with Vietnam Opera Ballet Theatre, the national dance company in Hanoi. Background research to the study has enabled previously elusive research areas to be made available to English-language scholars and artists - namely, contemporary preservation of Vietnamese dance traditions and professional practice of Vietnamese dance in the đổi mới (open door policy) period. This contextual background highlights the importance of cultural specificity in intercultural performance practice, revealing insights into how and why artistic and aesthetic sensibilities shift when choreographic processes are transferred from an Australian to a Vietnamese setting. The study began with a premise of intercultural performance practice as an equitable sharing of ideas and has ended with the experience of intercultural collaboration as a transforming process, involving cultural translation to and by the local context - in this study through a process of Vietnamisation. Transformations are seen to occur via alteration of professional practices and the metamorphosis of meaning, metaphor and myth, providing substantially new readings of the original ideas. Importantly, the study points to the body as the central site of cultural difference, cultural commonalities and complex intercultural sensibilities. A dual methodology for the research combined artistic practice with theoretical reflection, resulting in a polyphonic text of written, visual and kinetic data. From the extant practice of the researcher/choreographer, a model of intercultural performance was devised which was refined as the two research projects of the pilot and case studies progressed. Reflective analysis of the model was undertaken through the framework of intercultural performance theories, parallel to the artistic practice. Throughout the research process, privileging the voices and bodies of the Vietnamese artists in both their practice and their perceptions of that practice have been fundamental to the outcomes of the study. This is the first in-depth study of contemporary professional dance practice in Vietnam and of intercultural performance practice between Australia and Vietnam.

At the center of this thesis are seven psalms, commonly known as the Penitential Psalms. The Penitential Psalms were often used in connection to corporeal expressions of the sacrament, and though sacramental practices changed, they retained this association, and even became a catalyst for literary change and experimentation. In this thesis, I will show how these psalms were connected to the sacrament of penance throughout the medieval period, and well into the religiously tumultuous sixteenth century. This thesis explores four texts that take up the Penitential Psalms, adapting, refashioning, and reappropriating them to be used in different ways. The Introduction outlines the history of the Penitential Psalms and their interconnectedness with sacramental theology and practice; it further establishes the cultural and theoretical context within which the four examined texts must be considered. These sacramental ties with the Penitential Psalms are not found only in theological writings, but they also infused lay practice and experience, as I will show in Chapter One, where I examine the staunchly Protestant Actes and Monuments by John Foxe. Additionally, I argue that Foxe's accounts of Marian martyrs point to Psalm 51 both as a text of protest and memorialization. Chapter Two then moves to Sir Thomas Wyatt's A Paraphrase of the Penitential Psalms; there I examine the presence of the male body within the work, placing the text within the setting of a visual history that illustrates David's illicit desire for Bathsheba. With this tradition in mind, I examine trajectories of ocularity within the narrative, tracing the redirection of sexual desire. Anne Lock's Meditation of a Pentient Sinner is the center of Chapter Three. Meditation, when considered in relation to the dedicatory epistle, reveals connections to the standardized penitential process, and I argue that Lock presents a modified form of repentance to her reader. The final chapter looks at The Sidney Psalter's Penitential Psalms, which reveal an incoherent view of the penitential body merging with the body of the dead war-hero, Philip. It is within this penitential affect that the penitent displays and partitions his or her own body slipping into an otherness predicated by sin.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-05-31T13:52:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 andersondecarvalhomororo.pdf: 2247862 bytes, checksum: b0c36a96699e3138baedcc0adcf70e8c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-07-02T12:30:22Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 andersondecarvalhomororo.pdf: 2247862 bytes, checksum: b0c36a96699e3138baedcc0adcf70e8c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-02T12:30:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 andersondecarvalhomororo.pdf: 2247862 bytes, checksum: b0c36a96699e3138baedcc0adcf70e8c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-27 / As preocupações com o corpo ocupam lugar de destaque no mundo contemporâneo. Atualmente, as práticas corporais fazem parte do cotidiano de grande parte da população por motivos variados: saúde, estética, socialização, ludicidade, entre outros. Academias de ginástica, natação, clubes esportivos, instalações de rua para caminhada e exercícios analíticos, campos de futebol e as quadras presentes nas escolas são exemplos de espaços que hoje são comuns na vida das cidades brasileiras. Operamos com a idéia de que o intervalo entre o último quartel do Século XIX e as primeiras décadas do Século XX foi um período fundamental no processo histórico de surgimento e estabelecimento das práticas corporais em terras brasileiras. A modernização de várias de nossas cidades é um movimento típico destes anos e guarda relações diretas com a identificação das práticas corporais enquanto hábitos a serem apreendidos e praticados. Este trabalho procura analisar o processo de desenvolvimento do futebol em Juiz de Fora, cidade da Zona da Mata Mineira, entre o período de 1904 e 1914. As fontes privilegiadas em nossa pesquisa foram duas importantes publicações jornalísticas da época, o Jornal do Commercio e o Pharol. Como base na relação observada entre futebol/imprensa estabelecida nos relvados de Belo Horizonte e Rio de Janeiro, importantes centros urbanísticos, procuramos abstrair algumas considerações acerca das notícias publicadas sobre o esporte e presente nos jornais juizforanos. Nestes, buscamos identificar a relação existente entre estes veículos e o futebol praticado em Juiz de Fora, indo das tímidas notas discorridas sobre enfrentamento entre as recém fundadas agremiações locais até reportagens mais elaboradas. Nestas procuramos estabelecer duas frentes de trabalho: uma voltada para a análise estatística das notas publicadas e outra direcionada para um estudo acerca dos principais agentes responsáveis por praticar e emanar entre os esportistas locais o esporte bretão, até então desconhecido de boa parte da população brasileira. Partimos do preceito que, assim como ocorreu nas capitais mineira e carioca, a imprensa teve papel primordial na popularização e estabelecimento do futebol na esfera esportiva de Juiz de Fora. / Concerns about the body have a prominent place in the contemporary world. Currently, bodily practices are part of everyday life for most of the population for many reasons: health, aesthetic, social, playfulness, among others. Gyms, swimming, sports clubs, facilities for street walking and analytical exercises, soccer fields and blocks present in schools are examples of spaces that are now common in the lives of Brazilian cities. We operate with the idea that the interval between the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century was a crucial period in the historical process of emergence and establishment of corporal practices in Brazilian lands. The modernization of many of our cities is a typical movement of these years and keep direct relationships with the identification of bodily practices as habits to be learned and practiced. This paper analyzes the process of development of football in Juiz de Fora, a city of Minas Zona da Mata, in the period between 1904 and 1914. Do not attempt to establish a historical overview of sport practiced in the mining town. We seek to abstract from our analyzes of journalistic sources present in the time frame adopted, focusing on the two most prominent publications of the time, the Jornal do Commercio and Pharol. As based on the observed relationship between football / press established on the lawns of Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro, major urban centers, we try to abstract some comments about the news published about the sport and this newspaper juizforanos. In these, we seek to identify the relationship between these vehicles and the football played in Juiz de Fora, notes elaborated upon going from shy about confrontation between the newly founded local associations even more elaborate reports. Sought to establish these two work fronts: one focused on the statistical analysis of notes and other targeted published for a study on the main agents responsible for practicing and emanate from a local sports athletes hitherto unknown to most of the population. We start from the precept that, as occurred in the capital of Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, the press had role in establishing and popularizing the sport of soccer ball in Juiz de Fora.