10,395 research outputs found
Frantic Assembly
No full textThis volume reveals the background to, and work of, a major influence ontwentieth- and twenty-first century performance. Frantic Assembly is the firstbook to combine:• an overview of the history of the company since its foundation in 1994• an analysis of the key ideas underpinning the company’s work• a critical commentary on two key productions – Hymns by Chris O’Connell(1999) and Stockholm by Bryony Lavery (2007)• a detailed description of a Frantic Assembly workshop, offering anintroduction to how the company works
On Directing: Scott Graham / Interview
No full textArtistic Director of Frantic Assembly Scott Graham discusses the collaborative process of working with writer Abi Morgan on Lovesong, and how the narrative came to life through physical storytelling.Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly Scott Graham discusses the collaborative process of working with writer Abi Morgan on Lovesong, and how the narrative came to life through physical storytelling.Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Digital Theatre+, viewed July 27, 2021
Interview with Frantic Assembly: Beautiful Burnout and training the performer
Get PDFBoxing is one of the very few sports in which the aim is to inflict injury on your opponent to the extent that they are unable to continue with the contest. It is a sport of violence, danger, and endurance. In 2010, the physical theatre company Frantic Assembly, in collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland, began a training process to prepare for the creation and rehearsal of their production of Beautiful Burnout by Bryony Lavery, a play about a group of young people training in a boxing gym in Scotland. In an interview in June 2011, the co-founders of Frantic Assembly and co-directors of the production, Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, talked about what drew them to this project; about what they learned about physical training, combat and performance within the boxing world; and about how the experience has changed and developed their own approach to training and performance. This article presents key extracts from the interview alongside a critical reflection on the issues that are raised. Publisher statement: "This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training in, 2012, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19443927.2012.688854.
Incentives for local entities to assume control of state historic sites
No full textTitle from cover.; "David M. Gold, Principal Author"--P. [i].; "This publication is a report ... required by Am. Sub. H.B. 119 of the 127th General Assembly."--P. [ii].; "January 2, 2008."; Harvested from the web on 3/3/0
A methodology for the concurrent design of products and their assembly sequence
Get PDFThis thesis reports on the development of a Two-Tier methodology that provides
support for assembly sequence construction, validation and evaluation in parallel with
the design. This facilitates the production of products that are optimised for
assemblability. The proposed approach diverges significantly from many of the
sequence generation methods developed to date, which assume that assembly
planning starts at the conclusion of the design process. It is believed that the latter
approach misses an important opportunity to concurrently implement design and
sequence improvements that would result in products inherently suited to assembly.
The industrial assembly planning process was found to be completely different from
the automatic sequence generation approach. The Two-Tier methodology has its
foundations in this manual process, which uses a breadth-first, depth-second search. A
constraint-based method is used to interactively validate the sequence. In direct
contrast to traditional sequence generators, the hard and soft constraints are invoked
throughout the process. A novel approach to sequence evaluation allows the user to
quantitatively determine the suitability of the sequence at any time during the
construction process.
However, designers are rarely assembly experts and it is unreasonable to expect
practical sequences to be generated without assistance. Thus, a set of generic
assembly planning rules was identified from industrial surveys by the author. These
were collaboratively implemented into an Expert Assembler, which currently consists
of two mini advisors. Support is available to identify the most suitable base
component and the most appropriate component to add next.
The Two-Tier methodology has been implemented into a computer-based system
called SPADE (Sequence Planning And Design Environment). A four-layer model
holds the product data that underpins this implementation. The methodology and
SPADE have been successfully tested using representative case studies and the results
are reported as part of this thesis
Collaborative Art Practices in HE: Mapping and Developing Pedagogical Models
No full textThis project asks ‘How is interdisciplinary collaboration "taught" in HE institutions?’ and ‘What pedagogical models can be identified and developed?’
Performing and Creative Arts departments in HE institutions engage students in collaborative practice within a singular discipline or across disciplines, through interdisciplinary or hybridised art forms, as curricula or extra-curricula activity. Where students are engaged with interdisciplinary collaboration within the curriculum, tuition may involve case studies of collaborative partnerships, psychometric tests, a trial and error approach to throwing creative individuals together, or any combination of these.
This project aims to bring together ideas and modes of practices used in HE institutions and to present, as far as is possible, an overview of the current practices where interdisciplinary collaboration is a focal point of the learning activity.
In brief, and in the context of Performing and Creative Arts departments in HE institutions, this development project aims to:
Take a snapshot of current practice in HE
Construct typologies of modes of practice
Consider how pedagogies may be developed
Disseminate documentation setting out, and commenting on, pedagogical approaches to collaborative practic
The role of collective motion in examples of coarsening and self-assembly
Get PDFThe simplest prescription for building a patterned structure from its constituents is to add particles, one at a time, to an appropriate template. However, self-organizing molecular and colloidal systems in nature can evolve in much more hierarchical ways. Specifically, constituents (or clusters of constituents) may aggregate to form clusters (or clusters of clusters) that serve as building blocks for later stages of assembly. Here we evaluate the character and consequences of such collective motion in a set of prototypical assembly processes. We do so using computer simulations in which a system's capacity for hierarchical dynamics can be controlled systematically. By explicitly allowing or suppressing collective motion, we quantify its effects. We find that coarsening within a two dimensional attractive lattice gas (and an analogous off-lattice model in three dimensions) is naturally dominated by collective motion over a broad range of temperatures and densities. Under such circumstances, cluster mobility inhibits the development of uniform coexisting phases, especially when macroscopic segregation is strongly favored by thermodynamics. By contrast, the assembly of model viral capsids is not frustrated but is instead facilitated by collective moves, which promote the orderly binding of intermediates consisting of several monomers
Report to the General Assembly, February 5, 2021 / Compensation Commission for Elected State Officers and General Assembly Members
No full text1 online resource (10 pages)Commission's report to the members of the Connecticut General Assembly's 2021 legislative sessio
COVID-19 executive orders affecting education and child care / by Marybeth Sullivan (senior legislative attorney, report coordinator), John Moran (principal analyst, report co-coordinator) and Office of Legislative Research staff
No full text1 online resource (13 pages)Updated August 14, 2020Provides brief summaries of the governor's COVID-19 executive orders concerning education and child care. Also includes all related executive orders since the governor's March 10, 2020, declaration of public health and civil preparedness emergencies, through August 13, 202
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