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  Re: Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

  Thanks for responding, Jane.

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Wednesday, December 12, 2007 — 7:47 am

  Thanks for responding, Jane. Yes, this game is extremely popular and even advertised on television. I put some examples in the play list linked to my blurb. These are in fact motion-captured movements. I am not sure who choreographed and who showed up to ...
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  Re: You Can’t Stop the Beat – Dance: The Gen X Addiction

  So emotional! I remembered

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Wednesday, December 5, 2007 — 5:50 am

  So emotional! I remembered and loved this ensemble piece for the opportunity it gave us to see the collaborative aspect of dance, but it showed also the weakness of the dancer trained to competition. Immersive media really does help along the choreography ...
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  Re: National Dance Styles and Global Television Formats

  This is a particularly hard

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Tuesday, December 4, 2007 — 12:47 am

  This is a particularly hard way into a difficult topic: I could not see the dancing because of the banner and had to force myself to ignore it. This resulted in my straining not to turn it off because of how I was taught where dance is located and how it ...
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  Re: Slick Moves: Queer Fight Choreography in The Transporter

  Wow! No more camp

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Thursday, December 6, 2007 — 9:29 am

  Wow! No more camp trace--full out queered eye and choreography. Thanks for this. At Riverside we do consider fight scenes choreography and had a veritable love fest with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. This particular clip, shows a clumsy piece of choreogr ...
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  Re: Unexpected Virtuosity and the Dancing Cockatiel

  I have to say that my

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Thursday, December 6, 2007 — 10:15 pm

  I have to say that my favorite move is not one that could be recognized as human, but the spreading of his comb on his head. I also found him not at all synched rhythmically with the music unti it got to the dance break. Now that was interesting. It seems ...
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  Re: British Petroleum ad “Getting Better,” our environment getting worse

  I spent a quarter with

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  Tuesday, October 16, 2007 — 7:50 am

  I spent a quarter with students working to make them aware of their brand identity/ies. It took until week 8 out of ten for someone to realize that gas was a branded "commodity." I think this add will be highly successful because it is obviously ...