<p> Every civilization on the planet has some form of theatre. Musical theatre is primarily an American art form. It can be enjoyed by everyone. Enjoyment of any art form is increased by knowledge of and participation in the field and amateur productions allow non-professionals to take part in this collaborative activity. All ages and abilities can participate at various levels, from the smallest child to the wheelchair bound adult. It is my firm belief that taking part in a community theatre production is a creative and worthwhile way to express oneself, foster friendships, develop talents, and perpetuate this uniquely American art form. </p><p> I researched methods of adapting the musical theatre rehearsal process for different groups of amateurs. Among these groups I focused on the needs of elderly persons, persons with mobility impairment, and persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. </p><p> It is my wish to best adapt traditional rehearsal techniques to suit these and other groups. By seeking out the basic problems for working with specialized groups and by finding workable solutions for each, we will thereby better enable ourselves to work with all of them. </p><p> I outlined the general rehearsal process and made practical suggestions for working with and encouraging participation by these groups. In producing their best work, the participants foster a sense of community and strengthen their areas of weakness.</p><p>

Extreme art cinema, has, in recent film scholarship, become an important area of study. Many of the existing practices are motivated by a Franco-centric lens, which ultimately defines transgressive art cinema as a new phenomenon. The thesis argues that a study of extreme art cinema needs to consider filmic production both within and beyond France. It also argues that it requires an historical analysis, and I contest the notion that extreme art cinema is a recent mode of Film production. The study considers extreme art cinema as inhabiting a space between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art forms, noting the slippage between the two often polarised industries. The study has a focus on the paratext, with an analysis of DVD extras including ‘making ofs’ and documentary featurettes, interviews with directors, and cover sleeves. This will be used to examine audience engagement with the artefacts, and the films’ position within the film market. Through a detailed assessment of the visual symbols used throughout the films’ narrative images, the thesis observes the manner in which they engage with the taste structures and pictorial templates of art and exploitation cinema. Through this methodological direction, the thesis is able to assess how the films are sold to an audience, how this relates to the historical progression of extreme art cinema, and the way the entire practice is informed by an ongoing tradition of taste fluidity.

This thesis examines the arguments for the creation of a BBC feature film arm - BBC Films - and its development over a period of 25 years between 1988 and 2013. This followed the launch of Channel Four in 1982 and the formation of its own influential film strand Film on Four. As the role of public service broadcasters in supporting a national cinema became increasingly important, BBC Films became a key component of government film policy. Covering a period which saw increasing convergence between film and television, this historical investigation seeks to provide a greater understanding of the role of BBC Films as an alternative source of production funding, enabling a more complete picture of public support for British film to be drawn. The conflicted place of BBC Films within the corporation forms a primary focus. Including archival research, interviews and original primary sources - in the form of previously unseen internal strategy documents - this thesis contributes to existing gaps in literature. Examination of institutional influences upon the unit’s evolving strategy and its creative decisions - including individual creativity within organisational structures - brings together elements of previously distinct disciplinary fields, providing an important contribution to film and television studies. As a division of a PSB, funded by the licence fee, this study of BBC Films also adds significantly to discourses around the desirability of broadcaster involvement in British film production, and to the issue of commerce versus culture. Finally, this thesis will seek to assess BBC Films’ unique contribution to British film culture. This will be questioned by considering the output of BBC Films from the perspectives of its support for established and emerging UK talent, its depictions of Britishness, and its success in creating a complementary brand to Channel Four.

This study will consider the function of cinema in British society’s ongoing relationship with the 1980s. Its focus on a key period of recent British film history acknowledges popular culture’s flourishing identification with this decade, reflected through a number of media including literature, music and fashion. I argue that with seventeen films set in the 1980s and produced between 2005 and 2010, British cinema is at the centre of this retrospective, providing a unique perspective on our relationship with the era. But what are the determinants of this mediated reminiscence and what does it say about the function of cinema in rendering the past? I contend that a key aspect of this channelling of popular and personal memory is the role of the writer and director. Nearly all male and mostly middle-aged, the films’ creative agents present narratives that foreground young male protagonists and specifically masculine themes. These thematic concerns, including patriarchal absence and homosocial groups, whilst anchored in the concerns of their 1980s socio-political landscape also highlight a contemporary need for the films’ authors to connect to a personal past. Through reference to sociological, cinematic and political discourse, amongst others, this study will also consider the role of memory in these films. It will contend that the films present a complex perspective of the 1980s, highlighting an ambivalent relationship with the period that transcends nostalgia. The thematic structure of this work will allow a full analysis of the films’ relationship with key aspects of the 1980s incorporating a consideration of critically neglected texts that, I argue, demonstrate a strong mediated relationship with the 1980s. Additionally the study’s unique perspective on a specific period of the recent past and its mediation through film will ensure it has a key contribution to current thinking around the relationship between contemporary masculinity, British cinema and the 1980s.

<p> This paper analyzes the process of the developing collaborative creation in dance to adress issues in the modern food system. It begins with the examination of this history of Modern dance and collective theater and frames that history within the context of food system inequities.</p><p>

<p> This study seeks to establish the feasibility of <i>assai</i> as a moderating term in more cases than is typically assumed. Since evidence of concurrent competing definitions for the term <i>assai</i> exists from the mid- to late-18^th century, understanding and putting into practice a composer&rsquo;s indications according to his own understanding of the term becomes murky where the word <i>assai</i> is concerned during and beyond the time when the two definitions exist concurrently. Through investigation of musical scores, examining such features as ornamentation, the relative brilliance of the work, tonality, meter, and structure, the characteristics of a piece of music that are crucial to navigating the multivalent qualities of the word <i>assai</i> are identified and tested against the actual musical content of examples from works of J. S. Bach, Domenico Scarlatti, W. F. Bach, J. C. F. Bach, Johann Friedrich Agricola, C. P. E. Bach, W. A. Mozart, F. J. Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Chopin, and Franz Liszt.</p><p>

In 1982, the Edmonton Fringe began as a low budget experimental theatre event,and quickly became an annual celebration of performance that was (and is) a truly popular festival. Today, the Edmonton Fringe attracts 500,000 spectators, 200 street performers, and 150 theatre groups from across the country and around the world. Between 1985 and 1991, Fringe festivals were established in Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Vancouver and Victoria. These 7 festivals constituted a 4 month theatre circuit for national and international travelling theatre and street performance troupes. All of these festivals continue to receive more applications from Fringe artist to produce, than they can possibly accommodate. Audience members are willing to stand in line for up to six hours to see a sell-out Fringe show. These events have stimulated a remarkable level of excitement and enthusiasm for theatre. Why ? How? These are the central questions that this work approaches from a number of different, and sometimes distinct perspectives. “Part One," Ordering Chaos. begins with a history of the Fringe that places the festivals in a larger context concerned with Canadian theatre, and in particular the historical relations, social and theatrical, between the alternative theatre movement and the Fringe, and between the Fringe and the postmodern. It includes a description and analysis of the Fringe Production model, Fringe performance, and excerpts from numerous interviews with Fringe producers, artists, and critics.“Part Two," The Fringe Phenomenon, observes these events from two different perspectives; one is concerned with festivity, the other with popular culture; both observe the Fringe as a socio-cultural event. Depending primarily on Victor Turner’s anthropology of performance and John Fiske’s observations on popular culture, I examine the festivals as cultural performances. Linda Hutcheon’s understanding of the Canadian postmodern provides a context for conclusionary remarks. / Graduate

<p> Trust is a crucial element for a successful patient-clinician relationship. Athletic trainers may care for musical performing artists who demonstrate unique needs compared to traditional patients. In order to provide the best care, athletic trainers must establish a basis of patient-centered care and build solid professional relationships with performers. By improving overall patient-clinician relationship factors with respect to this population, trust may be implemented and sustained. The purpose of the study was to determine factors that established or diminished trust between drum corps members and their athletic trainers. The study included 12 semi-structured interviews in which Drum Corps International (DCI) members defined and analyzed the perception of trust held within this population in relation to athletic trainer interaction. Trustworthiness techniques of member checks, triangulation, external auditing, connoisseurship, and negative case analyses were used. The qualitative methods determined perception of trust through emergent themes and the effect of trust on the patient-clinician relationship. The study further identified factors that maintained or inhibited the aspect of trust between performer and athletic trainer. Accessibility, clinical competence, dependability, comfort, and having a plan of action were found to be the most prominent themes and promote success within this relationship. Overall, trust plays a role in determining patient rapport, compliance, and timely return-to-play through the patient-clinician relationship in the performing arts setting.</p><p>

La présente recherche repose sur le principe que la création théâtrale professionnelle est une partie intégrante de l'éducation théâtrale et qu'elle peut contribuer à la mission linguistique et culturelle de l'école de langue française en Ontario (Haentjens et Chagnon-Lampron, 2004; Théberge, 2006b, Théberge, 2007a). Il est donc profitable d'aborder la problématique art-éducation-culture du point de vue de des experts de la création théâtrale pour apprécier l'ampleur de leurs initiatives et prendre en compte leurs constats et leurs besoins. J'ai rencontré seize professionnels de théâtre impliqués dans la création de spectacles pour adolescents pendant l'automne 2006. Les deux spectacles étudiés, Libérés sur parole: la passion et Cette fille-là, ont été crées respectivement par le Théâtre du Trillium et le Théâtre la Catapulte, à Ottawa. Au niveau théorique, je me suis appuyée sur les concepts d'expérience, de représentation, d'identité et de culture ainsi que sur modèle systémique de créativite de Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1999). Au niveau méthodologique, j'ai adopté une approche inspirée de l'ethnométhodologie (Garfinkel, 1967, 2007) pour avoir accès aux liens qui unissent l'artiste et son environnement. J'ai d'abord étudié les représentations que les artistes se font de leur rôle dans l'éducation théâtrale et culturelle des adolescents. L'analyse a devoilé les concepts d'artiste conteur, formateur et passeur. Ensuite, je me suis concentrée sur les parcours des deux directeurs artistiques des compagnies participantes. Finalement l'observation des heures de répétition a fourni un portrait évolutif de l'expérience de création. La recherche apporte une reconnaissance et une valorisation de l'engagement des artistes envers les adolescents et la communauté. Elle souligne le besoin de formation à une culture théâtrale que les artistes identifient chez de nombreux adolescents et parfois chez les enseignants, ces derniers étant décrits comme des partenaires indispensables. La recherche contribue à connaître le travail des artistes qui pourrait être davantage intégré à l'éducation des adolescents.

To declaim publicly is an old dramatic practice that requires of its performer a mastery of communicative clarity and confidence, or at least the appearance of it. The orchestral performance tradition is in many ways analogous to this practice: it is long-standing and inseparably public, and it demands both emotive and technical mastery of its performers to effectively convey the sentiment of the works played. Likewise, the impression of confidence is imperative—there is little room for the timid performer on the orchestral stage. Nor is there forgiveness for the timid composer or for the composer who communicates ineffectively. In this respect, a composition whose musical ideas form a coherent, logical flow is valuable. Declamation's composition is thus in no small part concerned with the logical flow of ideas from one passage to the next—the carefully crafted organization of contrast and similarity that is at the heart of countless symphonic masterworks. To fill the void left by the preclusion of contrasting key areas fundamental to the opening movements of so many staples of tonal symphonic literature, Declamation comprises a fundamental conflict between other dramatically effective parameters: it presents a struggle between the chromatic and the quasi-diatonic, between the densely contrapuntal and the uniquely melodic, between the aggressive and the subdued. As in first movements of tonal symphonies, the narrative shape of Declamation is concerned with the mediation of these fundamental dichotomies. The formal shape that results from these dichotomies and their mediation is not a "sonata form," and to claim it as such would lessen the value of the term. However, the narrative shape of Declamation is one that attempts to recreate the dramatic allure, the inevitable yet captivating resolution of conflict that is the charm of the sonata-form movement, as evidenced by so many magnificent works of the symphonic genre. / A Dissertation submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music. / Summer Semester 2015. / June 16, 2015. / orchestra, symphonic / Includes bibliographical references. / Ladislav Kubík, Professor Directing Dissertation; Evan Allan Jones, University Representative; Clifton Callender, Committee Member; Mark Wingate, Committee Member.