159 research outputs found
I Went to the End of Time, and This is What I Found: A Look into the Making of a Solo Performance
Get PDFabstract: I'll go to the end of time for you (and you don't even know my name) is an evening-length solo performance created and performed by Kristopher K.Q. Pourzal. It premiered November 8-10, 2013 in the Margaret Gisolo Dance Theatre of Arizona State University. The solo was the culmination (suspension, really) of a wild creative journey, the distillation of a process that initially involved several collaborators. Through a series of neurotically/erotically repetitive episodes of self-composed song, text, and dance, the work mines questions of the desire to be seen and the desire to feel alive. The conventions and constructs of the proscenium stage are both utilized and subverted in examining this platform as uniquely suited for revealing the nature of these experiences and their potential relationship. This document is primarily an account of the show's process--its before and after--and serves as a site of exploration, explanation, analysis, reflection, questioning, and ultimately furtherance of the practice-based research made manifest in the performances.Dissertation/ThesisM.F.A. Dance 201
Dancing In and Out of Place: Black Concert Dance Histories and New York City's Clark Center, 1959-1989
No full textThis dissertation is the first scholarly study of Clark Center for the Performing Arts, an important New York City dance studio and school. Founded in 1959 as a place for black gay choreographer Alvin Ailey to formalize his modern dance company, Clark Center began in a YWCA in midtown Manhattan. Over the next thirty years, it grew to offer a robust slate of intentionally low-priced dance classes to dancers of many walks of life. Specifically, Clark Center aimed to resource African American dancers and emerging choreographers who sought to establish themselves professionally and start companies. Affiliated teachers and choreographers of note included Thelma Hill, Dianne McIntyre, Pepsi Bethel, Charles Moore, and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar.
Using primary-source archival records and oral-history interviews, this project chronicles the history of Clark Center and analyzes its social, political, and cultural significance. Theorizing that Clark Center’s history has been obscured in the discourse of “uptown dance” and “downtown dance,” I coin “midtown dance.” This new paradigm highlights a network of dance studios in midtown Manhattan that offered a pluralistic array of dance forms to a diverse group of people. Clark Center also birthed Playwrights Horizons in the early 1970s, a theater organization that split off soon after its founding. As the Times Square area was subjected to “clean up” efforts, the arts became a tool of redevelopment. Playwrights Horizons inaugurated one such redevelopment project when it moved to Theatre Row, a new block of off-/off-Broadway theaters. After a years-long attempt to establish a dance venue there, Clark Center shuttered in 1989, its mixedness rendered incommensurate with the increasingly homogenized region.
This project is especially attuned to the politics of black concert dance extended through Clark Center and that live on today. It argues that Clark Center modeled an alternative, “black-centric” version of racial integration, one that did not undercut black identities. Moreover, it posits that engagement with African-diasporic dance forms at Clark Center engendered in black students expanded conceptions of themselves as diasporically African and historically American. Deploying and contributing to Black Performance Theory, dancing at Clark Center is shown to be black self-making and black world-making
La Bayadere: An Examination of the Romantic Era in the Modern Day
No full textThe Romantic Era of art saw a shift from male to female dancers on stage. The female dancer became associated with mysticism and fantasy for the benefit of the male audience. With the onset of mysticism, came the idealization of death which was a common theme in many Romantic Ballets. The ballet, La Bayadère, is a Romantic Era ballet that has been adapted multiple times within the past half-century. However, in an effort to preserve its relevance to the modern-day audience, three ballerinas - Marianela Nuñez, Natalia Osipova, and Tamara Rojo - have altered the original choreography to present the main character, Nikiya, in a more complex light and defy Romantic ideals. Nuñez empowers the female dancer that was previously disempowered and left an object for male fantasy, Osipova breaks the idealistic illusion that life should end gracefully, and Rojo halts the worship of nature and encourages internal examination of the audience
Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of transition metal dithiolate coordination complexes
Get PDFTransient tabletop M-edge x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) light is used as a tool to interrogate the evolution of the metal center in a series of transition metal dithiolate complexes. The behavior of these molecules after absorption of light has implications for the development of catalysts and photosensitizers using earth-abundant transition metals. The cobalt dithiolene complex, [Co(bdt)2]- (bdt = 1,2-benzendithiolate), is primarily known for its ligand-noninnocence and participation in the catalytic production of hydrogen. After excitation of [Co(bdt)2]- with visible light, its relaxation dynamics are tracked with a combination of optical and transient M-edge XANES spectroscopic techniques that allow for the identification of a ligand-to-metal charge transfer (LMCT) excited state whose spin can be determined by comparison to semi-empirical ligand field multiplet calculations. The combination of optical and x-ray techniques is crucial to identifying relaxation processes that affect predominantly either the metal or the ligand. NEVPT2 calculations are used to understand its optical absorption spectrum and rationalize the timescale by which the molecule relaxes to the ground state. A set of three of cobalt tris(dithiolate) complexes with varying ligand field strength have been studied using optical transient absorption spectroscopy which shows a difference of a factor of at least ten in their excited state lifetimes. Understanding the origin of this change is important to further extending the lifetimes of photosensitizers. The sensitivity of M-edge XANES spectroscopy to the oxidation and spin state of a metal enabled the identification of the excited states involved in the relaxation of all three complexes. The contribution of a long-lived charge transfer state was ruled out and the final excited state was determined to be a 5T state. Finally, a nickel dithiocarbamate complex, Ni(dedtc)2 (dedtc = diethyldithiocarbamate, S2CNEt2) was studied as a simple analogue of a square planar nickel-centered hydrogen catalyst. Examination of this complex and the equivalent copper and zinc complexes reveal new phenomena in XUV spectroscopy, including dependence of the ligand absorbance on the metal center and observation of a ligand-based change in absorbance beneath the nickel M-edge after LMCT excitation.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Kristopher Benke, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-12 at 10:11.The student, Kristopher Benke, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-04-12 at 10:46.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-04-14 at 11:42.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16283 on 2021-09-16 at 17:02:51Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Nutritional Justice Action Plan
No full textYou are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you - the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Sociology and Nutrition to achieve SDG #2: Zero Hunger with a focus on Target 2.1
Nutritional Injustice Public Service Announcement
No full textYou are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you - the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Sociology and Nutrition to achieve SDG #2: Zero Hunger with a focus on Target 2.1.Assignment Guideline
Nutritional Justice stakeholder analysis/ power analysis/ systems analysis/ infographic
No full textYou are a part of a collegewide effort to increase access to education and empower students through "open pedagogy." Open pedagogy is a "free access" educational practice that places you - the student - at the center of your own learning process in a more engaging, collaborative learning environment. The ultimate purpose of this effort is to achieve greater social justice in our community in which the work can be freely shared with the broader community. This is a renewable assignment that is designed to enable you to become an agent of change in your community through the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this work, you will integrate the disciplines of Sociology and Nutrition to achieve SDG #2: Zero Hunger with a focus on Target 2.1.Assignment Guideline
Atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition of aluminum oxide for silicon surface passivation—background and materials science
No full textThe author provides a general background on atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) of Al2O3, from its origins to more recent research, focusing on surface passivation applications for solar cells and the composition and structure of the APCVD Al2O3-Si interface. Chapter Contents: • 6.1 Background on atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition • 6.2 Composition and structure of the APCVD Al2O3-Si interface • References
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