158 research outputs found
Performativities, Virtualities, Abstractions, and Cunningham's BIPED
No full textThis thesis explores the complex relations between subjective perception and dance movements, mainly exemplified by drawing on two short extracts from Merce Cunningham's choreography BIPED (1999). The central aim of the study is to formulate a performative phenomenological inquiry, which moves beyond an identification of essences, and towards an understanding of the lived experience of a dance performance as being grounded on iterations of the "abstract". The concept of the abstract primarily signifies an alternative mode of understanding Henry Bergson's notion of duration. Considering Gilles Deleuze's reading of Bergson's intuition as a method to divide the experience of a lived present into a temporal difference in kind between the virtual and the actual, this thesis suggests a complementary division of duration into virtual and actual kinds of abstraction.
In addition to Bergson's method of intuition, the discussion is phenomenologically rooted in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of the body image and Gaston Bachelards idea of non-causal reverberation. As with the case of intuition, those phenomenological concepts are applied unconventionally. Rather than serving as a pre-objective ontological basis for an analytical and scientific understanding of subjective embodiment, the notion of a reverberating body image is here treated as a form of mimesis, performatively constituted through symbolic and representational practices. Hence, in phenomenological terms, the rationale of the thesis is predominantly sustained by the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer, arguing that reality cannot be approached directly, but only through the concept of the symbol.
The viewpoint from where I speak has performative cybernetic characteristics, continuously and dynamically transgressing boundaries and reconstituting itself through iterative and citational practices. Additionally, as I move between the analytical and the intuitive, as well as between the virtual and the actual, the formal structure of the thesis corresponds to a liminal transformation of the speaking subjectivity
Merce Cunningham and his Technique
No full textThis thesis approaches the personal life, artistic creation and dance technique of American dancer and choreographer Mercier Philip Cunningham. The first part focuses on the artist?s life stages during his evolution in dance from the beginnings of his choreographic work, and seeks the origins for the establishment of his own dance company ? Merce Cunningham Dance Company. A chronological overview of his extensive repertoire is also incorporated. The second part deals with collaboration, connection and interaction among the dance, music, design and film fields during the artistic work of Merce Cunningham. Following the author?s experience with Cunningham technique, the final part is directed to an understanding of this dance technique, its principles and specific elements used in contemporary dance world
Energy Geared to an Intensity High Enough to Melt Steel: Merce Cunningham, Movement, and Motion Capture
No full textThe paper is concerned with the relation between everyday human social conditioning and the specialized skills demanded by choreography. Exploring the choreographic methods of Merce Cunningham, the author shows how choreography requires an entrainment of the body that mirrors modes of corporeal socialization while deviating in significant ways from the conditioning normally received. Cunningham works with constraints that have little to do with social convention, but that remain historical insofar as they reflect the technological conditions of a particular era. In the paper, his methods are traced from the inception of chance operations to the employment of Life Forms and the software-aided creative process
Conferencia: "La aventura de traducir"
No full text"La aventura de traducir", conferencia a cargo de Fernando Navarro Antolín, Premio Nacional de Traducción del año 2007, Profesor de Filología Latina en la Universidad de Huelva. Organiza: Facultad de Letras. Aula 'Antonio Soler' Aulario Campus de La Merce
Presentación del libro: "Crímenes triviales" de Rafael Balanzá
No full textPresentación del libro: "Crímenes triviales" de Balanzá. Intervienen: Manuel Moyano, Fernando Navarro Aznar y Balanzá. Organiza: Área de Literatura del Servicio de Actividades Culturales. Hemiciclo del Campus de La Merce
Presentación del libro: "El Pensamiento Filosófico-Jurídico y Político de Manuel Alonso Martínez"
No full textPresentación del libro: "El Pensamiento Filosófico-Jurídico y Político de Manuel Alonso Martínez", obra de José L. Mirete Navarro, profesor de la F. Derecho de la Universidad de Murcia. Intervienen: José A. Cobacho, Rector Universidad de Murcia; Esperanza Orihuela, Decana F. Derecho. Salón de Grados de la Facultad de Derecho. Campus de La Merce
Exposición de fotografía: "Stars: Estrellas de la danza. Los que están fuera y Perpetuum mobile"
No full text"Stars: Estrellas de la danza. Los que están fuera y Perpetuum mobile": Exposición de Fotografías de Josep Aznar de la Casa de la Danza Angel Corella. Organiza: Asociación Danza-Servicio de Actividades Culturales, dentro de la Semana de la Danza de la Universidad de Murcia. Presenta: Fernando Navarro, Coordinador Servicio Actividades Culturales. Claustro de la Facultad de Derecho. Campus de La Merce
Clausura del VI Taller de Escritura: Poesía y Narrativa
No full textClausura del VI Taller de Escritura: Poesía y Narrativa. Lectura pública de textos de los alumnos. Organiza: Área de Literatura. Servicio de Actividades Culturales. Presentan: Fernando Navarro, Isabelle García Molina y José Luis Martínez Valero. Hemiciclo de la Facultad de Letras. Campus de la Merce
Entrega de los premios del "II Certamen Literario de Poesía y Relato Hiperbreve"
No full textEntrega de los premios del "II Certamen Literario de Poesía y Relato Hiperbreve". Organiza: Área de Literatura. Servicio de Actividades Culturales / Facultad de Letras. Presenta: Fernando Navarro, Coordinador Actividades Culturales UMU. Hemiciclo de la Facultad de Letras. Campus de La Merce
Shape Persistence in Elicited Subjective Crop Yield Probability Density Functions
No full textThe shape persistence of a crop yield probability density function (PDF) was studied by using two variants of the Visual Impact Method (VIM) to elicit subjective estimations by farmers. In one variant ten weights were used to describe the PDF and in the other variant the farmer chose the number of weights. Results were compared directly and by means of Weibull distributions fitting, with evidence being obtained in favor of methodological persistence and the equivalence of the two estimation methods.Subjective crop yield PDF elicitation, Visual impact method, Methodological persistence, Crop Production/Industries,
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