76 research outputs found
'Worstward Ho' adapted for the stage by Aiden Condron in collaboration with Mouth on Fire Theatre.
No full text'Worstward Ho' adapted for the stage by Aiden Condron in collaboration with Mouth on Fire Theatre
Talhiya Lapse
No full textCo-curator and Performer with Paul Regan at Maniesta Bienalle, Cabaret Voltaire, Zuric
Editorial
No full textAgency is the concept through which we, the Guest editor team for TDPT Volume 15.2, wanted to explore the relationship between the structures of a training regime – a set of repeated and codified practices – and the individuality of the subject in training with their own thoughts, feelings and instincts. The aim of this Special Issue has been to investigate how training systems, institutions and individual practitioners find the balance between serving the discipline and rigour prescribed by training while retaining a sense of autonomy. This Issue emerges from conversations had by members of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Performer Training Working Group, which the editors of this issue – James, Jane and Sarah – previously convened. Aiden Condron was subsequently brought into our editorial team to coordinate the Training Grounds section of this issue. In our time with the TaPRA working group, several conference discussions between 2018 and2022 touched on agency and related concepts, brought to the fore in our conference theme in 2021 ‘Training and Agency’, and continuing into our 2022 conference on training lineages. Agency continuously re-appeared in our research and in our practice, in our teaching, and in studio work. It permeated our per-former training relationships: the relationship between teacher and student, or between practitioner and participant. Agency became a concept to help us understand the politics of the training room but also served as an un resolved provocation
Special Issue: Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 15, Issue 2 (2024)
No full textThis Special Issue is the output associated with a six-year research process that addressed the issue of agency in performance training in a thorough and comprehensive manner. It brought together a working group of international experts across different disciplines within this field resulting in the final peer-reviewed articles and accompanying back-pages of practitioner experience and artistic expression. It addressed questions around agency in performance training for the first significant time since the #MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter made this an urgent and pertinent topic for this field by highlighting structural inequalities that have gone unremarked upon within the discourse previously.
The process of convening several conference sessions and other forums, crafting the scope of the call for papers, and directing the targets of research to unify the submissions around the core concerns identified through the process contribute significantly to the substance of this research.
Agency is the concept through which we, the Guest editor team for TDPT Volume 15.2, wanted to explore the relationship between the structures of a training regime – a set of repeated and codified practices – and the individuality of the subject in training with their own thoughts, feelings and instincts. The aim of this Special Issue has been to investigate how training systems, institutions and individual practitioners find the balance between serving the discipline and rigour prescribed by training while retaining a sense of autonomy. This Issue emerges from conversations had by members of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Performer Training Working Group, which the editors of this issue – James, Jane and Sarah – previously convened. Aiden Condron was subsequently brought into our editorial team to co-ordinate the Training Grounds section of this issue. In our time with the TaPRA working group, several conference discussions between 2018 and 2022 touched on agency and related concepts, brought to the fore in our conference theme in 2021 ‘Training and Agency’, and continuing into our 2022 conference on training lineages. Agency continuously re-appeared in our research and in our practice, in our teaching, and in studio work. It permeated our performer training relationships: the relationship between teacher and student, or between practitioner and participant. Agency became a concept to help us understand the politics of the training room but also served as an unresolved provocation.
Working group events in 2019 and 2022 provided opportunities for productive discussion and debate concerning the politics of the training space. A keynote from Kaite O’Reilly echoed her work, The ‘d’ Monologues (Citation2018), observing that as performers, we all enter a space with our own particular flesh, bones and identity. As she reminded us, the body is never a neutral vessel. These events and annual conferences recorded our concerns that notions of agency, embodiment and training are resolutely political and agitational. Further questions that emerged asked:
How might training be complicit or resistant to the exercise of control?
What underlying power structures do performer training exercises enact?
Do the rules of an exercise suggest that training requires submission to authority?
How might training be involved in exercising one’s rights?
Informed by social movements such as Black Lives Matter (2013) and #MeToo (2017), the Q&A sessions and working group plenaries at the end of our annual conference schedule became notably more engaged with issues concerning individual agencies. The impact of Covid-19 provided a different but overlapping space where many scholars/practitioners were required to work differently. The impact of training alone, trying to preserve a regime, a discipline, without comrades, produced a challenge for some and for others a freedom. Freedom to practice and train in isolation afforded some space to reflect, take stock, refuse, do differently, become unruly; an opportunity to pursue different and more eclectic pathways in their training. While working without a leader, teacher, guru, master figure was for some liberating, for others not having such an outside eye – an Other – who served as a counterpoint, led to work that lacked rigour, technical precision and creative direction. As a collective we agreed that providing space to interrogate the concept of agency in more detail was timely and might be further appreciated by the wider performance community
Everyday conceptions of modesty: a prototype analysis
No full textGood theoretical definitions of psychological phenomena not only are rigorously formulated but also provide ample conceptual coverage. To assess the latter, we empirically surveyed everyday conceptions of modesty in a combined U.S./U.K. sample. In Study 1, participants freely generated multiple exemplars of modesty that judges subsequently sorted into superordinate categories. Exemplar frequency and priority served, respectively, as primary and secondary indices of category prototypicality that enabled central, peripheral, and marginal clusters to be identified. Follow-up studies then confirmed the ordinal prototypicality of these clusters with the aid of both explicit (Studies 2 and 3) and implicit (Study 3) methodologies. Modest people emerged centrally as humble, shy, solicitous, and not boastful and peripherally as honest, likeable, not arrogant, attention-avoiding, plain, and gracious. Everyday conceptions of modesty also spanned both mind and behavior, emphasized agreeableness and introversion, and predictably incorporated an element of humility
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2025)
No full textTheatre, Dance and Performance Training is a very special thing. It is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for practitioners, academics, creative artists and pedagogues to articulate research into performance training in all its diversity. It also lends its name to the accompanying Blog which provides a digital companion to the discussions initiated in the journal. More significantly, however, it is a community, a gathering together of people dedicated to the past, present, and future of performer training in all its forms. At its heart, it is about the people who carry these traditions and innovations forward and then set them down for others to pick up and take forward in their own ways.
This issue marks the first that Sarah Weston and I have edited, and we are incredibly aware of the precious thing that we have just picked up. However, as evidenced by the editorial board, the associate editors, the Training Grounds team, the Blog team, the team at Routledge, and the diverse and expert contributors listed, all of whom we are tremendously grateful to, we are not alone in our procession
The why's the limit: curtailing self-enhancement with explanatory introspection
No full textSelf-enhancement is linked to psychological gains (e.g., subjective well-being, persistence in adversity) but also to intrapersonal and interpersonal costs (e.g., excessive risk taking, antisocial behavior). Thus, constraints on self-enhancement may sometimes afford intrapersonal and interpersonal advantages. We tested whether explanatory introspection (i.e., generating reasons for why one might or might not possess personality traits) constitutes one such constraint. Experiment 1 demonstrated that explanatory introspection curtails self-enhancement. Experiment 2 clarified that the underlying mechanism must (a) involve explanatory questioning rather than descriptive imagining, (b) invoke the self rather than another person, and (c) feature written expression rather than unaided contemplation. Finally, Experiment 3 obtained evidence that an increase in uncertainty about oneself mediates the effect
Thermodynamic analysis of the Brayton-cycle gas turbine under equilibrium chemistry assumptions
No full textA design-point thermodynamic model of the Brayton-cycle gas-turbine
under assumptions of perfect chemical equilibrium is described.
This approach is novel to the best knowledge of the author.
The model uniquely derives an optimum work balance between power
turbine and nozzle as a function of flight conditions and propulsor
efficiency.
The model may easily be expanded to allow analysis and comparison of
arbitrary cycles using any combination of fuel and oxidizer.
The model allows the consideration of engines under a variety of
conditions, from sea level/static to >20 km altitude and flight Mach
numbers greater than 4.
Isentropic or polytropic turbomachinery component efficiency standards
may be used independently for compressor, gas generator turbine and
power turbine.
With a methodology based on the paper by M.V. Casey, “Accounting
for losses” (2007), and using Bridgman’s partial differentials , the
model uniquely describes the properties of a gas turbine solely by
reference to the properties of the gas mixture passing through the
engine.
Turbine cooling is modelled using a method put forward by Kurzke.
Turboshaft, turboprop, separate exhaust turbofan and turbojet engines
may be modelled. Where applicable, optimisation of the power turbine
and exhaust nozzle work split for flight conditions and component
performances is automatically undertaken.
The model is implemented via a VB.net code, which calculates
thermodynamic states and controls the NASA CEA code for the
calculation of thermodynamic properties at those states. Microsoft
Excel® is used as a graphical user interface.
It is explained that comprehensive design-point cycle analysis may
allow novel approaches to off-design analysis, including engine health
management, and that further development may allow the automation of
cycle design, possibly leading to the discovery of opportunities for
novel cycles
Big Data, Big Libraries, Big Problems?: the 2014 LibTech Anti-talk?
No full textThe desire to create automatons is a familiar theme in human history, and during the age of the Enlightenment mechanical automatons became not only an “emblem of the cosmos”, but a symbol of man’s confidence that he would unlock nature’s greatest mysteries and fully harness her power. And yet only a century later, automatons had begun to represent human repression and servitude, a theme later picked up by writers of science fiction. Man’s confidence undeterred, the endgame of the modern scientific and technological mindset, or MSTM, seems to be increasingly coming into view with the rise of “information technology” in general and “Big data” in particular. Along with those who wield them, these can be seen as functioning together as a “mechanical muse” of sorts – surprisingly alluring – and, like a physical automaton can serve as a symbol – a microcosm – of what the MSTM sees (at the very least in practice) as the cosmic machine, our “final frontier”. And yet, individuals who unreflectively participate in these things – giving themselves over to them and seeking the powers afforded by the technology apart from technology’s rightful purposes – in fact yield to the same pragmatism and reductionism those wielding them are captive to. Thus, they ultimately nullify themselves philosophically, politically, and economically – their value increasingly being only the data concerning their persons, and its perceived usefulness. Likewise libraries, the time-honored place of, and symbol for, the intellectual flowering of the individual, will, insofar as they spurn the classical liberal arts (with the idea that things are intrinsically good, and in the case of humans, special as well) in favor of the alluring embrace of MSTM-driven “information technology” and Big data - unwittingly contribute to their irrelevance and demise as they find themselves increasingly less needed, valued, wanted. Likewise for the liberal arts as a whole, and in fact history itself, if the acid of a “science” untethered from what is, in fact, good (intrinsically), continues to gain strengt
Computer science
No full textEvery new technology brings new opportunity for crime, and information and communication technology (ICT) is no exception. This short article offers students of crime insights in the two main connections between ICT and criminology. On the one hand we show how ICT can be used as a tool, target, or location of crime. On the other hand we show how ICT can be used as a tool to study crime.Cyber Securit
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