The aim of this diploma thesis is to design and suggest dimensions of air conditioners for ballroom and ventilation of cafeteria, cloakrooms and sanitary rooms. Sub-goals are next heat-load calculation of air-conditioned space, psychrometric calculations for summer and winter environment conditions, design of air distribution, machinery room of air conditioning, to design and suggest dimensions of air distribution system, specification of materials and design of necessary technical drawings.

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Objective: To investigate the potential etiology of a loss of neck control injury in female standard ballroom dancers. The median frequency (MF) as measured by electromyography (EMG) of the left upper trapezius (UT), left splenius capitius (SPL), and right sternocleidomastoid (SCM) of injured dancers was compared to non-injured dancers. This comparison was performed to identify whether dancers with a history of loss of neck control have a greater amount of fatigue than those with no history of this particular injury. Design and Setting: A 2 x 6 factorial design was used for this investigation. The independent variables were group (injured vs. non-injured) and time (before and after the three rounds of dancing). The dependent variables were MF as measured by EMG, range of motion, and neck length. All testing was performed at the university biomechanics laboratory and ballroom dance studio. Subjects: Twenty female subjects (10 injured group {mean height 167.40 ± 4.12 cm and weight 59.30 ± 5.41 kg}, 10 non-injured group {mean height 166.76 ± 4.62 cm and weight 58.93 ± 5.30 kg}), with at least one year experience in competitive ballroom dancing, in the standard division participated in this study. All subjects competed at a Dancesport competition either in the novice, pre-championship, and/or amateur standard classifications. Inclusion criteria for the injured group included female ballroom dancers who had a loss of neck control episode. Measurements: Surface EMG activity was recorded from the left UT, left SPL, and right SCM muscles before and after dancing the five standard dances. Results: The decrease in EMG MF was not significant between groups. There was no difference in neck lengths from the external occipital protuberance to inferior angle of the scapula between groups. There were also no significant differences in range of motion of left and right lateral flexion and extension in either group from pre to post dancing. Conclusions: Based on the results of this study, subjects with a history of neuromuscular neck injury did not appear to have acute fatigue of the three muscles studied here following the routine used in this study.

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."

This collection of drawings and paintings presents a proposal for a ballroom dance center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The building is unnecessarily generous with the most essential elements and exaggerates non-essential elements in a way enhances their redundancy. Layered glulam ceilings cover the two main spaces and evoke the hidden structure of the sprung dance floor below. The ceiling is reflected in the pattern of the hardwood floors, and the ballroom is reflected in the pool outside its layered facade. Layers of concrete walls create thresholds and add depth to the views between spaces. Light, material, and people follow indirect paths through the building and its detailed elements. / Master of Architecture

How to create a permanent house for a temporary event? How to provide a comfortable environment in an extreme climate? / Master of Architecture

Med utgångspunkt i kvalitativa intervjuer och queerteori lyfter uppsatsen fram fyra personer som identifierar sig som queera och deras upplevelser kring ballroomscenen i Sverige. I studien undersöks de såväl möjliggörande som begränsande mekanismerna som finns i ballroom. Det finns ingenting skrivet om ämnet i Sverige, därför är uppsatsens syfte att fylla det gapet. Materialet synliggör de komplexa intersektionella samverkningarna som finns i rummet, dess postmoderna karaktär, samt hur praktikerna i rummet delvis görs utifrån normativa premisser men att de ändå resulterar i ett motstånd och ett mothegemoniskt ifrågasättande.

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]

Den här uppsatsen undersöker hur identitet uttrycks i tre musikvideos som tillhör genren ”queer rap” (Mykki Blanco, Le1f och Zebra Katz) där jag ställer frågan om den identitet som uttrycks hos dem är subversiva. För att ta reda på detta användes representations-begreppet tillsammans med Richard Dyers definition av stereotyper och José Esteban Muñoz avidentifikations-begrepp. Dessa tre artisters identiteter går att tolkas som subversiva då de använder normer och redan befintliga identiteter för att skapa nya uttryck, både från det heteronormativa och andra subversiva subkulturer. De skapar nya identiteter och uttryck med de normer som finns.

The primary focus of this work is the Interwar years (1919-1939), a time when dance came to the forefront of Australian consciousness, not only as an expression of worldwide modernity, but in terms of a new kind of local professionalism. Using dance as window through which to analyse Australian culture, this thesis explores notions of the dancing ‘body’ in Australia. For this research, the term dancing ‘body’ is used to indicate a kind of artistic identity that incorporates various elements of the mind, the physical being, the conscious and unconscious idea of ‘self,’ and the external perceptions and stereotypes about dancers. Importantly, perceptions and understandings about the dancing ‘body’ were not static during the Interwar period. They changed physically, emotionally, environmentally, socially, politically, and dynamically, depending on the genre of dance being analysed. This thesis identifies four main types of dance that became popular in Australia during the Interwar period—ballroom, physical culture, modern dance and classical ballet —recognising that each type presented a slightly different dancing ‘body’ to the world and was perceived accordingly. These types were differentiated by their dynamic, environment, relationships between dancers, level of professionalism, accompanying music, and societal or political purpose, yet all share an emphasis on the corporeal form, an element of performance or spectacle, and an association with femininity. / Additionally, and most importantly, each of these four dancing ‘bodies’ was primarily associated with one or more cultures other than Australian, including American, Russian, English, and German. As a result, the dancing ‘body’ in Australia remained a foreign concept, connected to a variety of overseas cultures and ‘performing’ those associations through movement. While it is true that individual Australians danced, choreographed, taught and lobbied for their art-form, the sense remained in Australia that dancing was not an inherent national activity and thus, simply could not resonate with traditional notions of national identity. It leads us to ask this very complicated question: considering the varied cultural associations of the dancing ‘body,’ was there such a thing as an Australian dancing ‘body’? Did dance ever fully articulate an Australian national experience, aesthetic or ethos? / This research shows that local insecurities about the abilities of Australian dancers and dance-makers was closely related to dancing being an imported activity, introduced through films, magazines, recorded music, and in the bodies of foreign dancers. Moreover, it was often those foreign associations of dance, associations believed to be strong enough to ‘infect’ an Australian dancer, that caused concern over the power of the dancing ‘body.’ The tensions between the four dancing ‘bodies’ of the Interwar period, and the almost mythological stereotype of the national Australian ‘body’ are explored in this research, differentiating it from other contemporary works on the history of dance. Rather than focusing only on professional tours, this research seeks to understand the dancing ‘body’ in relation to Australian notions of physicality, identity and modernity. / Using dance as a ‘window’ through which to explore aspects of Australian culture during the Interwar period, this thesis argues that societal perceptions about dance and dancers were fundamentally related to the differences between behavioural expectations of Australian men and women, and dance’s inherent association with foreign cultures. This research looks closely at these cultural associations, and analyses various attempts by Australian dancers to legitimise their artform during an era of rapid technological, political and social change.