Dancing to Transgress: Palestinian Dancer Sahar Damoni's Politics of Pleasure

Politics Without Pleasure

Dancer perceptions of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical benefits of modern styles of partnered dancing.

OBJECTIVE To study dancers' perceptions of the physical, cognitive, affective, and social benefits of partnered dancing. METHOD 225 dancers (71% female) were recruited through a community ballroom dance center and completed an online survey designed to measure their perceptions of the physical, cognitive, affective, and social benefits of modern, partnered dance styles (swing, Lindy Hop, and ...

Dancing the night away: controlling a virtual karaoke dancer by multimodal expressive cues

In this article, we propose an approach of nonverbal interaction with virtual agents to control agents’ behavioral expressivity by extracting and combining acoustic and gestural features. The goal for this approach is twofold, (i) expressing individual features like situated arousal and personal style and (ii) transmitting this information in an immersive 3D environment by suitable means.

"Dancing with the Stars, " NBA Games, Politics: An Exploration of Twitter Users' Response to Events

Microblogging services such as Twitter offer great opportunities for analyzing the reactions of a wide audience with respect to current events. In this paper, we explore the correlation between types of user engagement and events centered around celebrities (e.g., personal or professional events involving Actors, Musicians, Politi-

Dancing to Darwin

I have been given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work with Mark Baldwin, the artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, on the creation of a novel contemporary dance piece to celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin in his bicentennial year. The original idea came from Stephen Keynes, Chairman of the Charles Darwin Trust and one of Charles Darwin’s great grandsons, and it is he who int...