From ideation to real context of use of a digital solution to promote physical and cognitive training for older adults by Ana Isabel Martins, Ceci Diehl, Telmo Silva, Ana Margarida Almeida, Gonçalo Santinha, Óscar Ribeiro, Nelson P. Rocha, Anabela G. Silva

“…Abstract This study describes the process of designing and developing the user interface of a digital solution aiming to promote physical and cognitive training (DanceMove) and testing for its usability by community-dwelling older adults. …”
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La contingence des guidages en danse by Lucile Lafont, Marie-France Fanton-Bayrou

“…This study examines how an expert PE teacher with a background in dance helps students during tutorial interactions in the context of complex situation instruction (CSI). …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…The Guro people in the Guo territorial unit in Ivory Coast practice a divination dance called Dawa, which we analysed in detail. This dance has the value of a therapeutic ritual for the novice: the success of the dance, i.e. full restitution of the word of the oracle, is a sign of mastery of communication with the tutelary ancestors (“zu”) and thus of the possession of sufficient might to resist the specific madness – “zu madness” – that they would otherwise provoke. …”
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Cycling in Tonal Space. Neo-Riemannian Theory in der dritten Dimension by Jakob Rieke

“…Der Beitrag greift Ideen der Neo-Riemannian Theory auf, nimmt Bezug auf Richard Cohn und stellt neu entwickelte dreidimensionale Modelle vor, mit denen sich Dreiklangs- und Vierklangsverbindungen alternativ zum Cube Dance von Jack Douthett und Peter Steinbach und zu Cohns 4-Cube-Trio darstellen lassen. …”
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Application of Multiacoustic Data in Feature Extraction of Anemometer by Dawei Chen, Xu Guo

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REGIONALE MERKMALE DER SIEBENBÜRGISCH-UNGARISCHEN VOLKSMUSIK by István ALMÁSI

“…Asymmetric rhythms are frequent in the dance music of these two regions and of the villages of Gyimes-Valley. …”
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Factor Analysis and Mental Health Prevention of Employee Turnover under the Profit-Centered Development of Modern Service Industry by Youwen Zhong, Huifang Zhang, Xiaoling Wu

“…Therefore, through 12 weeks of standard dance practice, all psychological indicators of the experimental group are significantly improved. …”
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Iterativity, agency, and feminism in the Hindu Tij songs of Nepal by Basanti Timalsina, Victoria L. Bergvall

“…We study the iterative discursive forms of language (word choice, syntax, and semantics) and multimodal displays (as modern media spread audiovisuals in songs and dances) arising around the Nepali Hindu festival of Tij, where women gather, feast, then fast, sing, and dance to honor the union of goddess Parvati and god Shiva. …”
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Writing in movement: movement-based performing arts for developing physical education teachers’ identity by Nicoletta Cappello, David Rodriguez, Esther Hernández, Dolors Cañabate

“…Methodology: An artistic and qualitative approach was used, integrating techniques of body expression, dramatization, and dance, assessed through reflective narratives and participant observation. …”
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MOZART’S MINUET by Ecaterina BANCIU

“…The minuet was probably the first dance included in the Italian symphonies in the beginning of the 18th century. …”
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A Dynamic Bayesian Approach to Computational Laban Shape Quality Analysis by Dilip Swaminathan, Harvey Thornburg, Jessica Mumford, Stjepan Rajko, Jodi James, Todd Ingalls, Ellen Campana, Gang Qian, Pavithra Sampath, Bo Peng

“…Laban movement analysis (LMA) is a systematic framework for describing all forms of human movement and has been widely applied across animation, biomedicine, dance, and kinesiology. LMA (especially Effort/Shape) emphasizes how internal feelings and intentions govern the patterning of movement throughout the whole body. …”
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Un second souffle. La danse des búzios au prisme de sa « réaffirmation » culturelle par les Pankararu, Pernambouc, Brésil by Cyril Menta

“…Based on the case of the dance of the búzios of the Pankararu Indians of the State of Pernambuco, in Brazil, it particularly explores two interwoven dimensions of cultural recovery: one is collective and involves the adoption of a practice, its transformation then its exhibition; the other is individual, through the political rise of a nationally recognized leader.…”
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Au cœur du debaa by Elena Bertuzzi

“…In 2015, while I was in Mayotte writing an anthropological thesis on the debaa (Sufi-inspired chants and dances performed exclusively by women), I had the opportunity to create a multimedia installation that allowed me to present the data collected on this practice. …”
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Analyzing the Effect of Dancesport on Reducing Menopausal Symptoms and Increasing Quality of Life by Noortje Anita Kumaat, Soni Sulistyarto, Ratna Candra Dewi, Heri Wahyudi, Caturia Sasti Sulistyana, Nugroho Susanto, Ozgur Eken, Septyaningrum Putri Purwoto

“…The program involved a 12-week dance course, meeting twice a week for 60 minutes per session, including cha-cha, salsa, rumba, hip-hop, and waltz dances. …”
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Matching Subsequence Music Retrieval in a Software Integration Environment by Zhencong Li, Qin Yao, Wanzhi Ma

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Book review: Children, families and care: Reflections on the first sixty years of FICE by Robert Shaw by Graham Connelly

“…I have my own special memories of international guests, many in national dress, attempting dances like the Orkney Strip the Willow, to the wild music of incomparable ceilidh band, Last Tram tae Auchenshuggle.…”

The jubilee year of the Reformed Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa by S Moripe

“…They celebrate their religion, they dance it, they sing it and they act it. They have innumerable rituals and ceremonies. …”
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Deux gestes pour une grande danse by Jean-Michel Beaudet

“…This brief article presents two gestures—one a woman’s, the other a man’s—linked to a major danced ceremony among the Wayãpi of the upper Oyapock. …”
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Vers un nouveau mythe lunaire de Salomé, Modernité de la mise en scène de la danse de Salomé by Atsuko Ogane

“…We must go back to the nineteenth century where this lunar dance of Salome was created, and especially to Flaubert’s Hérodias which inspired Wilde to exploit the lunar Hérodias and Salome.…”
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Juventude e memória: lembranças de tempos recentes by Carlos Henrique dos Santos Martins

“…This paper is part of a research project on young people who attend Black Music dances in the city of Rio de Janeiro. We start from the assertion that the young person is endowed with memory that is built in social relations and in different family contexts. …”
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