Search for dissertations about: "Theatre"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 79 swedish dissertations containing the word Theatre.

  2. 11. The Aesthetics of Movement : Variations on Gilles Deleuze and Merce Cunningham

    Author : Camilla Damkjaer; Sven Åke Heed; Niels Overgaard Lehmann; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interdisciplinary studies; Gilles Deleuze; Merce Cunningham; John Cage; Félix Guattari; Francis Bacon; dance; philosophy; movement; choreography; the body; heterogeneity; juxtaposition; representation; happening; chance.; Theatre; Teatervetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the aesthetics of movement in Gilles Deleuze’s writings and in Merce Cunningham’s choreographies. But it is also a study of the movement that arises when the two meet in a series of variations, where also their respective working partners Félix Guattari and John Cage enter. READ MORE

  4. 12. The theatre of recollection : a cultural study of the modern dramatic tradition in Ireland and Poland

    Author : Nina Witoszek; Stockholms universitet; []
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  5. 13. Why so different? - Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing : Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing

    Author : Eva Björkner; Anders Askenfelt; Ronald C. Scherer; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; operatic singing; musical theatre singing; voice source; subglottal pressure; flow glottogram; inverse filtering; formant frequencies; amplitude quotient AQ ; Music; Musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing. The common aim of the studies was to identify respiratory, phonatory and resonatory characteristics accounting for salient voice timbre differences between singing styles. READ MORE

  6. 14. Interacting : Coordinating text understanding in a student theatre production

    Author : Martin Göthberg; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis; Education and Learning; Utbildning och lärande; Arts education; literature education; theatre education; text understanding; role-taking; character work; video analysis;

    Abstract : The present dissertation explores student actors’ and their teachers’ coordination of text understanding in a theatre production – a two-semester process from page to stage in an upper secondary school in Sweden. With an interest in the collaborative work achieved in and through theatre education the research is realized against a background of the role of arts education and reading of literary texts in the neoliberal educational landscape that favors measurable effects of individual achievements. READ MORE

  7. 15. Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces

    Author : Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Suriashi; Slow Walking; Gendered Walking; Japanese dance; Nihon Buyō; Postmodern dance; Japanese theatre; Nō theatre; Practice-led research; Artistic research; Intercultural dance; pilgrimage; critical heritage; screendance;

    Abstract : This practice-led PhD-thesis draws on an existing Japanese movement practice called suriashi, which translates as sliding foot. Suriashi is a specific gender codified walking technique in classical Japanese dance and theatre, and an important method for acting on stage. READ MORE