Projects
Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and cancer immunotherapy to advance precision medicine through innovation. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From private 'folk' to 'Indian/Rajasthani Gypsy' dance on global stages to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO): the history of Kalbeliya dance (ca. 1960 to the present) Ghent University
This project presents a first in-dept study of Kalbeliya dance, focusing on its transformations from a folk dance practised exclusively at home, to a folk dance performed in public. The study aims to answer the following questions: What are the historical evolutions that can be osbserved from the sixties ('pure dance') to the present ('performing art')? And how is Kalbeliya dance conceptualized within the broader context of 'Classical' Indian ...
Capturing Dance Movements, Intensities and Embodied Experiences: Research into New Possibilities of Digital Media for Dance Analaysis and Notation based on Face (1982) by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ROSAS Ghent University
In translating dance movements into sign, important information about dance experience and embodied expression tend to be lost. MoCap (Motion Capture) is a movement retrieval technology that articulates the interaction between basic gestures and music patterns. This research project aims at finding new opportunities and possibilities of digital media for dance analysis and notation based on the dance performance Fase - Four Movements to the ...
A Dance with Palladium: Exploration of Propargylguanidines in Tandem Cycn / C-H Activation A dance with palladium: Exploration of Propargylguanidines in Tandem Cyclization / C-H Activation Processes for the Synthesis of Kealiinine Analogues and Related Me KU Leuven
Kala (black) for Kalbeliya, Saphed (white) for Sapera: Intercultural dialogues between Indian and Euro-American practitioners of Kalbeliya dance Ghent University
Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or become professionals in these dance styles. This project will study the relationship (the ‘intercultural dialogues’) between Indian and non-Indian performers, who
practice Kalbeliya dance from Rajasthan (India): it will compare what ...
The Thinking Body in Dance. Somatic R.E.A.C.H. (research in electronic and algorithmic choreography). University of Antwerp
Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693), the Antwerp à la Mode Painter: Fashion and Dance in Southern Netherlandish Genre Painting, 1645-1685'. KU Leuven
Summary
This dissertation focuses on the genre paintings by the Antwerp artist Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Janssens is by far the only painter from the second half of the seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands who specialised in the depiction of dance, corporality, music and leisure of high society. In contrast to his fellow Northern Netherlandish genre painters, there has barely been any scholarly attention paid ...
Choreografies of precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin Ghent University
CoP will investigate contemporary dancers’ socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes in Brussels and Berlin. The project will discuss to what extent one may speak of precariousness in the contemporary dance scenes of these two cities, which can be seen as creative capitals of Mid- and Western Europe.