Research
Magna Graeca/Tarantella
Presented 2005 in Sofli, Greece
This paper starts from a premise that within public assemblies and gatherings, in the territories under influences of classical Greek civilization, processions, blessings...
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Art/Science
Presented 2008 in Baden-Baden, Germany
Possible procedural similarities between abstract problems mathematically expressed, engineering problems mechanically resolved, collective tensions and yearning expressed as significant...
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Scenography and Genius Loci
Presented 2007 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
The traditional concept of genius loci, spirit of place, has a number of meanings ranging from the special atmosphere of a place, through human cultural responses to a place, to notions of...
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Transmigration of Music
Presented 2008 in Athens, Greece
Troubadours are the paper's central example. Broader issues of social currents in Mediterranean cultures will be touched upon through looking...
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Mediterranean Worlds
Presented 2009 in Famagusta, Cyprus
Troubadours are the paper's central example. Broader issues of social currents in Mediterranean cultures will be touched upon through looking....
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Giving Birth to a Performance
April 21-24, 2009 Bovec, Slovenia
International University "Global Theatre Experience" (IUGTE) "Art Universe" and "Ostrenko Centre" International Conference Performing Arts Training Today ..
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River of Images
Presented 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand
The elusive relationship between external cultural experiences and internal voluntary and involuntary image making is...
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Learning Body-Feeling Mind
Presented 2011 in Timişoara, Romania
Starting with inborn wisdom of the body-the infant reflexes. Of particular interest is the non-verbal and proto-verbal potential of little...
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Past with Poetic License
Presented 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal Teatro Olimpico
The paper touches upon issues and constructs of personal and collective meaning triggered by programmatically ordered and physically designed spaces. The complexities of verbal and non-verbal signifiers and their communications...
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Caves Echoes, Archaic Polyphonic Singing and Harmony of Spheres Traditions
Presented 2013 in Sibiu, Romania
In opening we briefly look at archaic, ancient and Greco-Roman music traditions as examples of cumulative societal interactions leading to defined cultures and as expressions...
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World, Underworld and Other World
Presented 2013 in Ascona, Switzerland
We open with the geographic context of the volcanic region of Campania where the two cities are located. We continue with a brief probing into cultural context by looking at few paintings representing urban scenes. Piero della Francesca painting of...
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Informed Response—Curriculums of Care
Presented 2013 in Shanghai, China
In opening we visit Mumford's articulations of three ages of Technology and reflect on their adaptation and amplification in response to the state of the world we find ourselves in. We continue by...
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Movement to Another Place
Presented 2013 in Monastir, Tunisia
In search of new insight and means of enriching migration theory, the paper offers an inter-disciplinary look into cultural expressions...
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MYTHOLOGY AS NEED
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MYTHOLOGY 2-5 May 2019, Ardahan/TURKEY
Starting point of this discourse is focused on the sapient ability of allegorical and metaphorical thinking...
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