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... of extensions, when, rather than simply extending into the world, movement develops a centrifugal force, likewise argues that the movement of affective intensity is the way in which the body activates its inherent capacity for change. Extension is a fundamental attitude of the dancing body; dancing “projects...

... cinematic and theatrical? The tension between the somatic side of singing and the beautification of the singing, instrumental, working body through dancing brings a gendered vision to the fore that links the female body strictly with codes of beauty. A reading of Madonna’s video “Take a Bow” allows...

... as such a logic is concerned with what or who comes fi rst), is upset by such a way of phrasing the issue, the ques- tion raised begs not to be answered, and must remain, as it is, suspended, dangling, or, as it were, dancing...

... attention to Milton’s own vexed effort to render Eve as something more than an emblem of female vanity. The idea of beauty as a form of conduct returns us again to Hogarth’s recurring invocation of dance, and thereby forward to his third and final reference to Milton in The Analysis of Beauty...

... meets Rosie/Nalini, daughter of a temple dancer (henceforth devadasi - female servant of the Lord), the dancing in her blood strictly suppressed, first by a personal ambition that prompts her to take a Masters Degree in Political Science, and secondly by an archaeologist/art historian husband. Raju...

... large, so he has taken to dancing in private (2.19). By this we are not to imagine an occasional foxtrot with Xanthippe across their living room floor, but rather a strenuous workout in one ofthe dance-like martial arts such as the pyrrhic. But men of greater age and avoirdupois, though they may...

...). 6 “Kalasala Kalasala” is what is called in Indian cinemas an “item number.” Item numbers are stand-alone song-and-dance sequences, both in the sense that they are shot on their own schedule but also in that they are narratively detached from the rest of the film, often simply dropped...

...Mary Ann Doane Copyright © 1998 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1998 Works Cited Anemic Cinema . Dir. Duchamps Marcel . Museum of Modern Art , 1926 . Annabelle Butterfly Dance . Edison Manufacturing Co. , 1895 . Annabelle...

...: The Social Significance of Raï . Austin : U of Texas P , 1999 . Silverman Carol . “ The Gender of the Profession: Man, Dance, and Reputation among Balkan Muslim Rom Women .” Magrini 119 – 46 . Slimani Ali . Espoir . Real World Records , 2003 . Slobin Mark . Subcultural...

... which Henri, her son, would establish his artistic paternity and make the once "glorious" name of the house of Toulouse-Lautrec live on beyond the archaic redundancy of the French aristocracy into the annals of modern art (fig. 6; see also Dance at the Moulin Rouge 1889-90, Museum of Art, Philadelphia...

...), finds Damon sleeping on a bench soon after his arrival in New York City and decides to take him under her wing. Blanca recognizes Damon’s extraordinary dancing abilities and soon introduces him to the ballroom scene—a move that changes the trajectory of his life. Pose introduced viewers to several...

.... The most widely discussed instance of this is Edwin S. Porter's short 1902 film, Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show, in which the country rube, Uncle Josh, misrecognizes the film image as the real and attempts to interact in some way with the three films shown, hopping on the stage to dance...

... performances, Li Yugang was offered many opportunities to hold personal concerts in different cities both in and outside China. In 2009, he was offered a contract with the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater making him the only...

... [ . . . ] the unspoken records of histories, the mythic past, and all the other lives connected to ours, our families, nations, and other creatures” (37). Paula Gunn Allen, a writer and critic of Laguna, Sioux, and Lebanese descent, notes that the ceremony welds art forms like chant, dance, drumming, and incantation...

... the arse of miyas and made them dance nude We have untied the penises which were tied till now Without castor oil in the arse we have made them cry Those who call religious war, violence, are all fuckers We have widened the tight vaginas of the bibis 27 Now even the adivasis 28 have...

... to the rhythm of their incomparable staccato,. she cracks them as if they were ebony or ivory, furiously, killing boredom. Nothing stops her dancing, her wild gypsy dancing, whose tight circles of passionate desire are resumed in the rings rising from Carmen's cigarette. 54 The Devil in Carmen The familiar...

..., even in our despair. A long, long time ago, Cecily had the occasion to dance in a circle with Xiomara at an academic conference. 8 Later, Desiree danced with Clémence in Ghana at another conference. Before all of these moments, Cecily met Jinsuin and either she or Cecily dropped a tea cup...

...: “There is the art of music, the art of painting, the art of sculpture, the art of poetry, the art of prose, the art of theater, the art of dancing, the art of cooking, the art of living. But the art of high-wire walking? The very term seems laughable” (242). And yet, no less a thinker than Immanuel Kant devotes...

... in Arthème Swallows His Clarinet (Ernest Servaès, France, 1911) . 23 In Irresistible Piano , the mere image of a polka note is enough to set a body in motion, disrupting everyday life and domestic labor while bewitching the entire neighborhood into a collective dance around the piano. This enchantment...