Browsing by Subject "Choreography"

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    An analysis of three choreographic works : old friends, sacred spirits and cool wind blowing
    (2002) Raizenberg, Lindy; Samantha Pienaar
    My choreographic career commenced in 1975 when my first work, Aexia, was presented as part of a third year choreographic examination at undergraduate level. Between 1979 and 2000, I created a number of dance works for CAPAB Ballet Company (now Cape Town City Ballet Company) and the University of Cape Town Ballet School (now UCT School of Dance). The works were all choreographed in a classical ballet style in which I was trained from the age of five. The ballets were most often created in an abstract form where interpretation of music into movement formed the primary motivation. Against this background, the creation of a portfolio of three dance works submitted for the Masters Degree in Choreography at this time has become part of a personal process of choreographic development beyond the traditional classical dance style with which I am so familiar, towards a more modem contemporary style of dance which I anticipated would offer me new avenues of creativity.
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    Music made visible in time and space : concepts of simultaneity in tone-eurythmy choreography
    (2009) Sponheuer, Silke; Spiegel, Mugsy
    Eurythmy is an art of movement that expresses music and speech. This dissertation explores eurythmy's musical field, called tone-eurythmy, in its multifaceted appearances, background and within its philosophical context. Tone-eurythmy, carried out by performers moving in space and time, makes music visible. It transforms music into a new movement-art form, that of audible-visible music, by expressing musical components as well as the artistic intentions within a composition and those held by the performing artists. The dissertation examines how musical concepts are seen by eurythmists to integrate ideas of wholeness and to understand music as both audible and inaudible. It draws on studies and findings from music psychology to show distinct effects of musical elements on the human being, and to indicate the similarities between those and the qualitative expressions of music through tone-eurythmy.