“Gestures of Air and Stone”: Translating Ethan Frome into Dance in Cathy Marston’s Snowblind by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…After examining how American Delsartism and dance might have shaped Edith Wharton’s understanding of the physical expression of affect through non-verbal gestures of air and stone and influenced the composition of Ethan Frome, this article explores how Cathy Marston drew on the affective and sensory elements in the novella to propose her own somatic and choreographic reading, therefore offering readers and ballet audiences alike a reflection on what literature feels like.…”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…What the public is made to witness is perhaps only a graceful though extremely attractive ballet of ghosts and masks, long lost, but still striking a most powerful chord—one of the reasons for the plays’ enduring success : they appeal to modern audiences’ fantasy and work, paradoxically, as founding myths of the Ideal Victorian or Austro-Hungarian aristocratic society.…”
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Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…This paper examines how in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s ballet, Daphnis et Chloé (1912), he conceived of this ornament as an ostinato motif whose short rhythmic values trace the “S-curve” of contemporaneous visual arabesque through a periodic descending and ascending melodic contour. …”
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Does the Movement Competency Screen Correlate with Deep Abdominals Activation and Hip Strength for Professional and Pre-professional Dancers? by Justine Benoît-Piau, Mélanie Morin, Sylvie Fortin, Christine Guptill, Nathaly Gaudreault

“… # Methods A total of 77 pre-professional and professional dancers from ballet and contemporary backgrounds were evaluated. …”
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Effect of Conservative Interventions for Musculoskeletal Disorders in Preprofessional and Professional Dancers: A Systematic Review by Justine Benoit-Piau, Christophe Benoit-Piau, Nathaly Gaudreault, Mélanie Morin

“…These studies included ballet and contemporary dancers, as well as professional and preprofessional dancers. …”
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Movement Competency Screen: Rethinking the Rating by Justine Benoit-Piau, Mélanie Morin, Christine Guptill, Sylvie Fortin, Nathaly Gaudreault

“… # Methods One hundred and eighteen professional and preprofessional dancers evolving in ballet or contemporary dance were recruited. The MCS was performed and was scored according to the 3- and 5-level scoring systems. …”
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Inclusion of preschool children into organized activity in leisure time by Milenko Janković, Karolina Berenji, Zoran Milić, Sandra Vujkov

“…The survey questionnaire contained questions about children's nutrition (NutriStep survey) and their involvement in organized activities with educational and sports-recreational content during leisure time, as well as parent’s opinion on quantity in child’s sedentary activities. 65.9% of children aged 5 to 7 was found to attend some kind of organized activity, most often within programs of foreign language schools, sports schools and programs with aesthetic  presentation of skills is important (ballet, dance and folklore). The largest number of parents reported that their child spent one hour watching TV, using a computer or playing games. …”
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Mãos que dançam e traduzem: poemas em língua brasileira de sinais by Lodenir Becker Karnopp, Renata Heinzelmann Bosse

“…Como resultado, señalamos que los poemas analizados tienen relación con temas de la comunidad sorda tales como la formación de sordos (“El ballet de las manos”), y de intérpretes de Libras (“Día de los intérpretes”) y lingüísticamente destacan las formas de producción artística en lengua de señas.…”
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Maximizing phonation: impact of inspiratory muscle strengthening on vocal durations and pitch range by Coşkun Yilmaz, Özgür Bostanci, Özgür Eken, Rania Alkahtani, Monira I. Aldhahi

“…Materials and methods Singers were selected from the Samsun State Opera and the Ballet Directorate (n = 16). This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the acute effects. …”
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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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Martha Graham, ‘An American, A kosmos’: Border-crossing in Martha Graham’s early works by Adeline CHEVRIER-BOSSEAU

“…This paper examines the connection between crossing borders (state limits, borders between America and Mexico or America and Europe, and temporal borders) and pushing choreographical boundaries in dance pioneer Martha Graham’s ballets created in the 1930’s and the early 1940’s.Danced only by women, Primitive Mysteries (1931) was inspired by Graham’s travels in New Mexico, and explores the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southern States of the United States; nine years later, Graham would explore this theme further with El Penitente, which also draws from the Medieval tradition of mystery plays. …”
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