Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer by Parry M. Kietzman, P. Kirk Visscher

“…Rather, it is more likely that a follower can successfully acquire a dance’s information regardless of where she may be located about a dancer.…”
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A Trustworthy Collaboration: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham’s Pioneering of American Cultural Diplomacy by Camelia Lenart

“…Focusing on the collaboration between the First Lady and the modern dancer Martha Graham, it also proves that their partnership and its valuable and long lasting outcomes qualify them as pioneers of American cultural diplomacy. …”
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Du Bestiaire dans le théâtre de W.B. Yeats by Pierre Longuenesse

“…Therefore, the « hawk-dancer » is this figure of original innocence, or the representation of the unity of being that Cuchulain seeks in vain.…”
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Experience modulates gaze behavior and the effectiveness of information pickup to overcome the inversion effect in biological motion perception. by Xiaoye Michael Wang, Zhichen Feng, Mingming Yang, Jing Samantha Pan, Margaret A Wilson, Qin Zhu

“…A previous study showed that VDs were more sensitive to the artificial inversion of PLDs depicting dance movements when compared to typical and non-dancers if given sufficient dynamic information. The current study compared the gaze behaviors of non-dancers, typical dancers, and VDs when observing PLDs of upright and inverted dance movements (either on the ground or in the air) to determine if the PLDs were artificially inverted. …”
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Un esercizio di biografia. Alicia Alanova tra danza d’arte e spettacolo commerciale (1919-1945) by Giulia Taddeo

“…Starting from the finding, at the Enrico Prampolini Archive, of documentation relating to the Ballets Alanova (1945), the essay reconstructs a part of the personal and professional biography of Alicia Alanova, a dancer and choreographer of Scottish origin who, between the 1920s and 1940s, crossed very different artistic fields: the Ballets Russes company, revues and cabarets, modern dance concerts, cinema.…”
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Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali by Alessandra Ciattini

“…Drawing from a series of interviews to a contemporary dancer in Havana, who was initiated few years ago in the Regla de Ocha, this essay focuses on the complex relations between religion and health, intending the latter as the result of an achieved harmony between body and psyche. …”
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Ser español en el ballet académico : estereotipo de una identidad sin escuela nacional by Patricia Bonnin-Arias et Juan Arturo Rubio Arostegui

“…Stakeholders of the Spanish choreographic field of academic ballet (masters, choreographers, performers) define distinctly a form of being, of doing and of attitude of the stereotyped Spanish dancer in comparison with the foreign. This is despite the fact that in Spain a national school of academic ballet has not been institutionalized as a result of a weak and ineffective cultural policy throughout its history.…”
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Assessment of line differentiation in the Thoroughbred horse breed using DNA microsatellite loci by L. A. Khrabrova, N. V. Blohina, O. I. Suleymanov, G. А. Rozhdestvenskaya, V. F. Pustovoy

“…The genetic distances between the lines varied in a wide range from 0.014 (Nasrullah – Northern Dancer) to 0.125 (Massine – Teddy). The correspondence to HWE was maintained in most lines, which is confirmed by the negative values of Fis. …”
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Coreografie dell’“Arcipelago” (2015-2023). Estetica, archeologia, ecologia nel lavoro di Annamaria Ajmone con il luogo by Giada Cipollone

“…In 2015, dancer and choreographer Annamaria Ajmone began the open project Archipelago. …”
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L’Estremo Oriente di Djemil Anik. Influssi e interpolazioni delle danze giavanesi nell’attività artistica e pedagogica by Fiorella Cardinale Ciccotti

“…Questioning the topic of métissage within the French interwar context, the author of the essay aims to investigate the career of the dancer Djemil Anik (1888-1980) – of French-Malay origins and an expert in Javanese female court dances – starting from her first debut at the Théàtre des Arts in Paris until the full affirmation of her pedagogical activity. …”
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HBO’s Black Women Artist Biopics: The Josephine Baker Story and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge by Hélène Charlery

“…This paper analyses cable television HBO’s 1990s biopics based on the life stories of the African American dancer and singer Josephine Baker (The Josephine Baker Story, Brian Gibson, 1991) and the actress Dorothy Dandridge (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Martha Coolidge, 1999), demonstrating that the films articulate the network’s commercial strategy, using the life stories of African American icons to tap into a niche market. …”
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« Je la regarde et je danse » by Elena Nesti

“…In this article, I analyse the onstage danced movements of a singer-songwriter who is a non-dancer. The more she moves, the more her fans recognise the reason why they “chose” her, whey she represents them. …”
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Sumbo yoro sé ! by Camille Devineau

“…This exclamation announces what the Bwaba designate as the “strength” that the dancer’s movements show. This “strength” incudes two complementary aspects: physical strength and the strength given by “the invisible”, namely the bush spirits’ ability to act upon mask wearers, and therefore upon the human world. …”
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Realistyczny musical? Allen – Resnais – von Trier by Rafał Koschany

“…Wybrane do analizy przykłady są wyjątkowymi próbami w karierze trzech reżyserów; są to Everyone Says I Love You Woody’ego Allena (1996), On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song) Alaina Resnais (1997) oraz Dancer in the Dark Larsa von Triera (2000). Wszyscy podnieśli musical do rangi ważnego eksperymentu – jako autotematycznej wypowiedzi na temat statusu gatunku i jego ewentualnej realistycznej wersji. …”
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JEJAK SEJARAH PERGESERAN IDENTITAS AGAMIS MENJADI PUB-KULTUR DI PATI by Fathimatuz Zahra

“…While from Babad Randukuning, the story of tayub dancer struggle called “Rondho Kuning”, the first women who built dance community although initially opposed by the Duke at that time, religious identity has shifted toward pub-culture. …”
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Une éducation sentimentale ou le roman d’amour de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…The study of an unpublished passage such as that of the dancer reveals the novelist’s will to create a seductive and active character.  …”
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Co-creation of Activity Spaces in an amateur dance group: interactional construction of the Teaching Space by Naomi Smart, Beatrice Szczepek Reed

“…An important aspect of this co-construction are the participation roles dancer, choreographer, participants not currently dancing. …”
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“Le Tétraque se perdait dans un rêve”: Concordance between Flaubert’s Hérodias and Hérodiade by Milliet, Grémont and Massenet by Clair Rowden

“…Attention is focussed on the “Dance of the Seven Veils”, recreated by innumerable dancers and musicians, particularly in the wake of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé (1893), but whom inevitably returned to Flaubert’s description of the dance as a naturalist source of inspiration which Wilde’s symbolist text was lacking. …”
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Characterization of the Effects of a Six-Month Dancing as Approach for Successful Aging by Maria Grazia Vaccaro, Giulia Izzo, Alessandro Ilacqua, Silvia Migliaccio, Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti, Andrea Lenzi, Aldo Quattrone, Antonio Aversa, Gian Pietro Emerenziani

“…Thirty experienced dancers (age: 71.2±5.1 years, 18 females/12 males) were enrolled from the dance school “NonSoloLiscio” of Catanzaro. …”
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Mean arterial pressure may be a valuable tool for classifying blood pressure in physically actives: A cross-sectional study among females from North India by Monika Kulshreshtha, Shivani Chandel

“…When MAP was used, it drastically reduced the prevalence calculated by AHA 2017 (7.2 % Kathak dancers; 17 % non-dancers) and IGH-IV 2019 (.5 % Kathak dancers; 4.3 % non-dancers). …”
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