Dance as a way of knowing – a creative inquiry into the embodiment of womanhood through dance

Borovica, Tamara

doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1663442

Cited by 9 publications

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“…LTPA has not only been shown to be more effective in improving physical health outcomes [40] but engagement in leisure, more generally, has long been recognised as a human right and as a crucial part of what it means to be human. From Aristotle in ancient Greece to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to many contemporary studies confirming the objective and subjective benefits of leisure to wellbeing [42], the literature is full of accounts of the power of leisure engagement to personal development [43,44] as well as to physical and emotional health [45,46]. However, despite this "common" knowledge, leisure and recreation are still not equitably framed in health policy discourse and practice [47], and individuals and communities, as a consequence, are not appropriately equipped and empowered to "decipher" or construct a vocabulary for recreation, as our participation aptly describes it.…”

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In search of a “vocabulary for recreation”: Leisure-time physical activity among humanitarian migrants in regional Australia

Reis

Lokpo²,

Bojanic

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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This study provides an exploration of the meanings of leisure for humanitarian migrants in regional Australia and these meanings' implications for health. It uses mixed-methods to explore leisure-time physical activity participation and day-today experiences of leisure and health. A sample representing approximately one third of the Coffs Coast adult humanitarian migrant population completed the survey, as well as 32 individuals who participated in interviews and focus groups. Findings were organised into three themes and explored issues around mental health and time for leisure, cultural differences in experiencing leisure, and the connections with experiences of other disadvantaged groups. We conclude by arguing that leisure needs to be brought to the fore of discussions around service provision and policy making concerned with the wellbeing of the refugee migrant population, particularly focusing on support for the (re)development of a vocabulary for recreation, as a step forward in the journey to healing and belonging.

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In search of a “vocabulary for recreation”: Leisure-time physical activity among humanitarian migrants in regional Australia

Reis

Lokpo²,

Bojanic

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Thus, material and spiritual (psychological) constructs are both essential for art. Like other art forms, choreography generates a series of psychological behaviors with complex interactions and relations, where the subject's imagination exerts the most active psychological function (Borovica, 2020 ). That is to say, a choreographer without artistic imagination can never choreograph aesthetic dance postures, nor can a positive and independent artistic dance image be formed.…”

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Influence of Human–Computer Interaction-Based Intelligent Dancing Robot and Psychological Construct on Choreography

Yang

2022

Front. Neurorobot.

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To study the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on dancing robots in choreography, this paper introduces the biped-humanoid robot-imagined choreography model alongside the Psychological Space Construction (Psychological Construct) and Human–Computer Interaction (HCI). The proposed model is based on deep learning and imitating human thinking and is capable of imagining new dance elements. Finally, simulation experiments are designed to verify the model's effectiveness. Dance professionals are invited to evaluate the robot-imagined dance posture. The results show that the proposed model can vividly imitate human dancers and imagine and create new dance movements. The average basic feature retention and innovation scores of 30 new dance elements imagined on the L1 (head) are 7.29 and 7.64, respectively. By comparison, similar scores on 30 new elements in L2 (upper-body) are 7.73 and 7.40, respectively. Therefore, the proposed intelligent robot-imagined choreography model can help the dancing robot choreograph more finely and improve the choreography efficiency. The research results have significant practical value for dance teaching.

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“…The secondary (high) school was in a valleys town in south Wales where we had been working on the Young People's Understanding of Place project 5 and the activity was offered to thank participants. The workshops created an opportunity for us to pay attention to corporeality and movement, through an explicitly embodied ethico-political praxis 6 (Borovica, 2019a(Borovica, , 2019bEllingson, 2017;Hickey-Moody, 2017). The invitation to the workshops was extended to all girls in the school and read, 'If you feel like moving, if you feel like jumping, swaying, running and creating stories with your body, this activity is for you'.…”

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“… 6. The term ethico-political praxis draws attention to the care that was an intentional part of the way we set up the workshops as praxis to look after the girls and expand their movement repertoires with the potential to enable new, more expansive or positive worlds to be experienced (see note 1) or as Borovica suggests to be ‘emotionally cathartic’ (2019b: 4). As we had gained many insights already into the troubles, difficulties and pain the girls had experienced in their lives, this caring praxis was political with a small p. …”

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What More Do Bodies Know? Moving with the Gendered Affects of Place

Ivinson

Renold

2020

Body & Society

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This article focuses on what bodies know yet which cannot be expressed verbally. We started with a problem encountered during conventional interviewing in an ex-mining community in south Wales when some teen girls struggled to speak. This led us to focus on the body, corporeality and movement in improvisational dance workshops. By slowing down and speeding up video footage from the workshops, we notice movement patterns and speculate about how traces of gender body-movement practices developed within mining communities over time become actualised in girls’ habitual movement repertoires. Inspired by the works of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Erin Manning, a series of cameos are presented: room dancing; the hold; the wiggle; the leap and the dance of the not-yet. We speculate about relations between the actual movements we could see, the in-act infused with the history of place, and the virtual potential of movement.

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Dance as a way of knowing – a creative inquiry into the embodiment of womanhood through dance

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

In search of a “vocabulary for recreation”: Leisure-time physical activity among humanitarian migrants in regional Australia

In search of a “vocabulary for recreation”: Leisure-time physical activity among humanitarian migrants in regional Australia

Influence of Human–Computer Interaction-Based Intelligent Dancing Robot and Psychological Construct on Choreography

What More Do Bodies Know? Moving with the Gendered Affects of Place

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