The performing body: kinesic codes in wole Soyinka’s drama

The powerful presence of the theatricalised post-colonial body, suggests that foregrounding corporeality can be a highly positive, active strategy for staging traditional enactments such as ritual. As a culturally coded activity, dance, for example, has a number of important functions in drama: not only does it concentrate the audience's gaze on the performing body, but it also draws attention to proxemic relations between characters, spectators, and features of the set. Splitting the focus from other sorts of proxemic and kinesic codes, dance renegotiates dramatic action and dramatic activity, reinforcing the actor's corporeality, particularly when it is culturally laden. Wole Soyinka's plays, our raw material, abound in bodies and voices, in spectacle and movement and colour; in multiple settings, flashbacks and dramatic re-enactments

Relevance of Negative Links in Graph Partitioning: A Case Study Using Votes From the European Parliament

In this paper, we want to study the informative value of negative links in signed complex networks. For this purpose, we extract and analyze a collection of signed networks representing voting sessions of the European Parliament (EP). We first process some data collected by the VoteWatch Europe Website for the whole 7 th term (2009-2014), by considering voting similarities between Members of the EP to define weighted signed links. We then apply a selection of community detection algorithms, designed to process only positive links, to these data. We also apply Parallel Iterative Local Search (Parallel ILS), an algorithm recently proposed to identify balanced partitions in signed networks. Our results show that, contrary to the conclusions of a previous study focusing on other data, the partitions detected by ignoring or considering the negative links are indeed remarkably different for these networks. The relevance of negative links for graph partitioning therefore is an open question which should be further explored.Comment: in 2nd European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC), Sep 2015, Karlskrona, Swede

The Performing Body: kinesic codes in Wole Soyinka's Drama

The powerful presence of the theatricalised post-colonial body, suggests that foregrounding corporeality can be a highly positive, active strategy for staging traditional enactments such as ritual. As a culturally coded activity, dance, for example, has a number of important functions in drama: not only does it concentrate the audience's gaze on the performing body, but it also draws attention to proxemic relations between characters, spectators, and features of the set. Splitting the focus from other sorts of proxemic and kinesic codes, dance renegotiates dramatic action and dramatic activity, reinforcing the actor's corporeality, particularly when it is culturally laden. Wole Soyinka's plays, our raw material, abound in bodies and voices, in spectacle and movement and colour; in multiple settings, flashbacks and dramatic re-enactments.PEst-OE/EGE/UI4056/201

Discourses that matter: wole soyinka’s theatre as a form of representing and reading the world

Wole Soyinka is a most significant figure in contemporary world literature. From the perspectives of the politics of postcolonial writings, perhaps the ultimate challenge of the complexity of Soyinka’s works and career lies in the fact that the metanarratives that imaginatively and discursively underwrote the great liberation movements of the twentieth century do not feature in his works in their conventional and familiar configurations. Overarching all the struggles waged by these movements is the struggle for self-representation as the existential and expressive roots of human freedom.The best examples of this structure in Soyinka’s theatre are A Dance of the Forests, Kongi’s Harvest, Madmen and Specialists and From Zia With Love. Soyinka’s critical essays also operate in a great variety of social and intellectual contexts and cover an extraordinary range of topics, including literary criticism and aesthetic theory, theatre and cultural history, political power and ideology, and, more recently religious extremism and nuclear pollution. One “form of attention” which has been influential in the reception of Soyinka’s works is that of professional critics, especially with regard to the institutionalisation of the academic study of Anglophone writings of the developing world in the second half of the twentieth century

Mixed integer programming formulations for clustering problems related to structural balance

International audienceIn this work, we study graph clustering problems associated with structural balance. One of these problems is known in computer science literature as the correlation-clustering (CC) problem and another (RCC) can be viewed as its relaxed version. The solution of CC and RCC problems have been previously used in the literature as tools for the evaluation of structural balance in a social network. Our aim is to solve these problems to optimality. We describe integer linear programming formulations for these problems which includes the first mathematical formulation for the RCC problem. We also discuss alternative models for the relaxed structural balance and the solution of clustering problems associated with these new models. Numerical experiments are carried out with each formulation on a set of benchmark instances available in the literature

ODAM – The construction of the modern in Portugal: between universal and singular

A ODAM explicita a inserção no espirito moderno de vertente universal e associativo, não apenas pela criação de um coletivo mas, pelo carácter abrangente do seu espaço de intervenção enquanto defensor de uma arquitetura moderna em Portugal. Desde o âmbito associativo, ao ensino, à prática profissional, até ao seu intercâmbio internacional, como testemunha a participação dos seus membros nos congressos CIAM a partir de 1951, o grupo ODAM afirma–se no debate à reivindicação dos ideais modernos em Portugal. Mas o mais significativo da produção moderna do grupo (manifestos, projetos, exposições coletivas e obras paradigmáticas) situa–se mais que no seu ideal, conforme aos grandes grupos de referência, à consciência do necessário ajuste à circunstância específica local, pobre e periférico, o que se traduziu em ensaios compartilhados, de mais–valia diferenciadora. Esta análise retrospetiva e crítica da ODAM enquanto parte do quadro mais alargado que caracteriza as “Arquitecturas em común” do moderno, para além de (re)afirmar o seu carácter universal, compreendido atualmente cada vez mais pelos seus discursos diversos, atesta a revisão crítica dos dogmas arquitetónicos modernos, presentes à data, nas arquiteturas do pós–guerra, emergentes no contexto europeu. De uma leitura, mais implícita que explicita, ressalta ainda a importância do debate, pensamentos e sobretudo da produção arquitetónica do grupo ODAM como génese da atual arquitetura portuense.ODAM makes clear the insertion in a modern spirit with a universal and associative face, not only by creating a collective, but for the wide character of its intervention space while advocate of a modern architecture in Portugal. From the associative scope, the teaching, the professional practice to its international exchange, as witnesses the participation of its members in CIAM congresses since 1951, ODAM group makes its statement through debating the counterclaiming of modern ideals in Portugal. However, the most meaningful of this group modern production (manifestos, projects, collective exhibitions and paradigmatic works) is placed more than in its ideal, as per to the great reference groups, in the awareness to the adjustment of the local specific circumstance, poor and peripheral, which acknowledged shared essays of unique added value. This retrospective analysis and critique of ODAM, while part of the wider picture that characterizes the “Arquitecturas en común” of the modern, besides (re)stating its original universal character, in our days comprehended more and more by its diverse speeches, vouches the critical revision of the modern architectural dogmas, at the time, present in the post–war architectures emerging in the European context. Of a more implicit than explicit reading, stands out the importance of debates, thoughts and most of all of ODAM’s architectural production as genesis of today’s Oporto architecture

La Iniciación a los Deportes de Combate: Interpretación de la Estructura del Fenómeno Lúdico Luctatorio

El presente estudio, de carácter teórico, tiene por objeto exponer las líneas fundamentales de un modelo didáctico para la iniciación a los deportes de combate. Para ello se analizan las aportaciones de numerosos autores que desde diversas perspectivas consideran que la iniciación a los deportes de combate no significa iniciarse específicamente en alguna de sus modalidades, sino que implica un tratamiento integrado y transversal de las mismas. Estas concepciones “alternativas” restan importancia a los modelos técnicos específicos para potenciar los elementos comunes de los deportes de combate, y particularmente el desarrollo de lo que ha venido a denominarse el “saber luchar”; esto es, la capacidad que permite al luchador solucionar las diversas situaciones que se suceden durante un combate

As Artes Marciais e Desportos de Combate na Educação Física Escolar – Interpretação Curricular

Os Programas Nacionais de Educação Física (PNEF) em Portugal assinalam a necessidade de garantir o ecletismo e o desenvolvimento multilateral das crianças e jovens. Partindo desta assunção, é observada a proposta curricular efetuada no âmbito das artes marciais e desportos de combate (AM&DC) em relação com a atual formação académica de base dos futuros professores de Educação Física. No seguimento das particularidades analisadas, é efetuada uma proposta de matriz teórica para a abordagem transversal das AM&DC que enfatiza as ações referenciais destas práticas ao mesmo tempo que promove o desenvolvimento de um processo de ensinoaprendizagem vinculado às diferentes possibilidades motrizes que conferem oposição dual. A estruturação das AM&DC apresentadas elogia assim o desenvolvimento de um "saber lutar" transversal promovido pela resolução de problemas associados à lógica dual das tarefas lutatórias, o qual se assume como independente dos constrangimentos técnicos e regulamentares particulares das diferentes modalidades deste grupo de práticas. Esta perspetiva procura estimular os professores, particularmente aqueles que não são especialistas neste âmbito, a compreender a estrutura global das AM&DC para sua posterior aplicação em contexto escolar