Transferring principles: the role of physical consciousness in Butoh and its application within contemporary performance praxis.

This thesis addresses the role of physical consciousness in contemporary performance training praxis, outlining my position as a performance maker involved in a range of dance and theatre training disciplines, with particular recourse to the Japanese contemporary movement expression of Butoh. The term praxis refers to a set of practical aims put forward throughout the writing, as well as referencing an ethos of self governed practice within independent movement training and performance. The arguments posed draw from a personal critical understanding based on different training programs with European and Japanese butoh artists. Through evolving my performance training praxis towards certain choreographic as well as metapractical aims, I seek to challenge the notion of 'performance mastery' - a term which, within a traditional western performance context might imply control, virtuosity and technical discipline - in response to an anti-aesthetical approach to dance, as found in what I argue to be the dysfunctional, non-kinetic body of the butoh dancer. In making explicit the connections between studio practice, anatomical and somatic investigation and outdoor environmental exploration, I examine the role of 'physical consciousness' in butoh as a contemporary movement approach which might shift current established discourses surrounding western theatrical dance training towards an open investigation of movement practice and repertoire through transdisciplinary approaches which interface the languages of ecology, geology and cartography. Physical consciousness refers to an internal dialogue held by the butoh dancer between a range of visual images, or actual experiences gained through direct contact with specific environments, and his or her means of physicalising these images and experiences in movement. Thus, physical consciousness requires the butoh dancer to constantly engage in a double exposure between the internal image, as fed through language, and those external forms presented. The experiential mode of practice is prioritised throughout as the writing seeks to stabilise empiricist notions of practice as contingent on both first hand and collated accounts of perceptual mechanisms, while research methods used here draw on social science practices with the aim of producing an embedded critique of physical consciousness. Within my dance research and production methods, physical consciousness articulates an internal awareness of the body's movement potential which questions the how rather than the why or where of the dancer's movement capabilities, minimising the distance between internal awareness and aesthetic form, between the dancer and the danc

Monography of the Genus Silphium : I. Silphium composium Michaux (Compositae)

Author Institution: Biology Department, State University of New York College at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14222Silphium compositum, a polymorphic species of southeastern United States, is recognized to consist of the following subspecies: ssp. compositum, ssp. reniforme, ssp. venosum, and ssp. ovatifolium. The subspecies are distinguished primarily by leaf and achene characters, and are sympatric in some areas. Descriptions, synonomy, distribution maps and citation of representative specimens of the taxa are included

The Cost and Benefits of Measuring Sustainability

The cost of not adopting sustainable measures is growing exponentially. The world-wide economic impact of global warming crises affecting trade, supply in products, availability of fossil fuels, and prices for goods and services makes moving towards renewable energy and sustainability more imperative than ever. Discussions and initial commitments to reduce global warming has been an important first step in creating a sustainable future; however, corporations now need enforceable policies and procedures to remain accountable

Policy Evaluation, Production Decisions, and Hawai‘i's Longline Fishery.

Ph.D. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018

Old Dominion University: A Half Century of Service

Dr. James R. Sweeney has written an informative account of the university\u27s first half-century. It is a history of growth from a small two-year branch of the College of William and Mary to a state-supported university that has gained its own national reputation. [From the Introduction, by Alfred B. Rollins Jr, Aug. 14, 1980]https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_books/1000/thumbnail.jp

MORPHOLOGIC ANALYSES OF PALEOZOIC RHOMBIFERAN ECHINODERM STEMS

During the Paleozoic, echinoderms exhibited a diverse array of morphologies. This work specifically deals with an extinct stemmed group called glyptocystitoid rhombiferans. The goal of this work is to investigate functional morphology of the stem in this enigmatic group. Abnormalities in form are addressed herein by a brief literature review of teratologic features and in the description of a new species of pleurocystitid Pleurocystites? scylla. Morphologic specialization is discussed in the investigation of the internal structure and morphometrics of the mesotem of Brockocystis. Linear morphometrics, multiple imputation, and multivariate statistics were used to describe the variability exhibited in a single element with ontogenetic implications. The mesostem structure is highly biologically controlled in its calcification and appears to originate in the midstem region. Finally, computational fluid dynamics was used to test various hypothesized posture models of the generalized motile bauplan. Simulated posture models found a buried life mode was most unstable and unrealistic. The coiled or Snake posture model was the most stable at a velocity of 0.05 m/s. From these findings, new information regarding the development, growth, and life mode of glyptocystitoid rhombiferan echinoderms is elucidated

A New Day in the Old Dominion

The presidential campaign of 1964 became a significant turning point in Virginia politics as the 24th Amendment eliminated poll taxes, black political organizations organized voter registration drives, and suburbanites, newcomers, and recent college graduates were attracted to the Republican Party. Republican candidates had made strong showings in elections in 1962 and 1963, due in part to the policies of the Kennedy administration. Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., publicly opposed many of the fiscal and social policies of the Kennedy-Johnson administration, creating difficulty among Republicans in choosing someone to oppose him. His position also created a rift among pro- and anti-Johnson Democrats, effectively splitting the Democratic Party and creating tension among Republicans who supported Byrd. The Virginia Democratic Party rebuffed Byrd by endorsing Johnson\u27s candidacy, leading breakaway Democrats for Goldwater to found the Virginia Conservative Party in 1965. An additional factor in the 1964 presidential campaign was the surge in political activity among African Americans, particularly in Richmond, Norfolk, and the Southside