MUDRA UN VISUAL AIND PERFORMING ARTS: Codes for Expression

’Fusion’ Performing Arts: a Plea for Diversity

The authors are proposing an approach to creative forms of performing arts allowing diversity and unity to coexist. In their view, this is possible through a cross-fertilization of Western and nonWestern cultures in which the main theoretical and practical knowledge sources would derive from cognitive anthropology and the experience acquired by learning from acknowledged masters. Having questio...

A Gesture follower for performing arts

Our aim is to develop a gesture follower for performing arts, which indicates in real-time the time correspondences between an observed gesture sequence and a fixed reference gesture sequence (or in other words to time warp in real-time the observed sequence to the learned sequence). Applications concern for example choreography or (composed) music. The possibility to continuously establish cor...

The Performing Arts Data Service

The Performing Arts Data Service (PADS), funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and based at the University of Glasgow, aims to support research and teaching in UK Higher Education by collecting and promoting the use of digital data relating to the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre and dance. The PADS is one of 5 service providers of the Arts and Humanities...

Energy expenditure in the performing arts.

The performing arts and psychological well-being.

Although psychotropic drugs have been hailed as, 'One of the success stories of modern psychiatry' the prescribing of these medicines has not been without commotion, concern and controversy. Moreover, the President of the World Psychiatry Association Professor Dinesh Bhugra and colleagues, after conducting a recent large-scale study (n=25,522) on psychiatric morbidity in the UK, collectively is...