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"Duality@br"

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                                                                                                                         "Dualidade@br"  Concept of Hybridity  Definition of the word in the dictionary is explained as if in Genetics The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species, or races. Something of mixed origin or composition, something, such as a computer or power plant, having two kinds of components that produce the same or similar results, or a word whose elements are derived from different languages . The term “hybridity” is used in a diverse and often contradict...
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Citadel

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                                      Citadel "Citadel” is a, in choreographic terms, a contemporary dance piece inspired by the previously mentioned two enforced Armenian Diasporas, firstly the sixteenth century emigration and later the forced diaspora resulting from the genocide of April 1915. Through the choreography, I reshape and remodel a particular popular Armenian dance called the “one line dance” and more intricately the flowing movements, of a very delicate lyrical feminine dance, called the “spring water dance”. Fragmenting the movement into many repetitive pared down, simple sections, de-constructing them in order to create choreographic phrases that are accurate, gesticulated and at times aggressive movements, and catalyzing these actions by using contemporary and occasionally, classically based dance movement techniques. The piece “Citadel”, as I will go on to demonstrate in thi...
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