On 3rd October 2002, the youngest German national holiday was celebrated in Berlin: day of unity. This newly established (having begun 1991) is meant to commemorate reunification Germany which took place on 1990. A state-ceremony opera house and a street held at Pariser Platz around Brandenburg Gate. The most important symbolic center re-unified city turned into grounds for huge open-air festiv...

Stemming from one creative experience that emerged in London during the lockdown period of early 2020, called “Emergency Festival”, this article is a result observations based on practice, centred around festival group multicultural, interdisciplinary movement-based researchers and dancers created, curated, participated in. It explores possibility making radical alterity out hitherto previously...

Music may be considered a form of “knotting,” as Ingold (2015, 18) puts it, in which “contrary forces tension and friction are productive generative outcomes.” Interdisciplinary approaches to performative ways knowing have grown exponentially since Blacking's (1973) ethnomusicological research among the Venda late 1950s. Studies sound, sense, performativity flourished multitude strands conteste...

All cultures, from ancient to contemporary, retell tales of heroes of the past, over and over again. Modern Japan seems especially inundated with this kind of popular history, as such stock characters as Yoshitsune, Hideyoshi, Musashi, and Ryōma are endlessly recycled in plays, films, TV specials, and historical novels. How did this pattern come to pass? Why have certain stories persisted and f...

Intersubjectivity experiences established between adults and infants are partially determined by the particular ways in which adults are active in front of babies. An important amount of research focuses on the “musicality” of infant-directed speech (well-defined melodic contours, tonal and rhythm variations, etc.) and its role in linguistic enculturation. However, more recently, researchers ha...

Responsive evaluation offers a vision and rationale for evaluation. In this vision, evaluation is reframed from the assessment of program interventions on the basis of policymakers’ goals to an engagement with all stakeholders about the effectiveness of their practice. This approach is especially appropriate for the field of health promotion given emerging ideas and the congruency between the u...

This study assessed whether premenstrual symptomatology and/or sleep characteristics explain increased luteal phase psychophysiological reactivity to laboratory stressors. We hypothesized that: (1) premenstrual symptoms and sleep characteristics would explain greater luteal versus follicular phase psychophysiological reactivity, (2) symptoms and sleep characteristics would differentially predic...

We present the unrolling of the Virage project and its main achievement : a sequencer for authoring and performing interactive intermedia scenarii. This two years long project addressed the question of authoring and controlling interactive scenarii dealing with several heterogeneous digital media, in the context of the performing arts. The project involved multidisciplinary members including ar...

Dancers frequently present with hip pain. The etiology of this pathology has not been clearly identified from an anatomical perspective. Structural variations including hip dysplasia and dynamic variables from the foot to the pelvis will be discussed. Understanding the etiology as a structural entity, neuromuscular entity or a combination of the two, allows for a successful rehabilitative proce...