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"Vandekeybus brought into focus a whole new genre of modern dance... Combat rolls, breakneck sprints and savagely wrestled duets became the defining vocabulary of a new generation." The Guardian In 2016, Wim Vandekeybus'' company Ultima Vez celebrates its 30th birthday. Never before has his oeuvre been recorded in a book. Until now. This extraordinary book is a visual trip through the most powerful images from his repertoire, a quest for the ideas and themes that inspire him. It also contains unpublished texts, notes and scripts from his shows and films. A number of compagnons de route, such as David Byrne, Mauro Pawlowski, and Peter Verhelst, offer a personal textual contribution. Choreographer, filmmaker and photographer Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez are at the top of the dance industry in Belgium - and around the world. After a cooperation with Jan Fabre, Vandekeybus founded his very own company Ultima Vez in 1986. His first performance, What the Body Does Not Remember (1987), was an international success and was awarded a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award), a prize awarded for pioneering work. SELLING POINTS: * First book ever on this international choreographer and his company Ultima Vez

This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer''s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates'' social and economic structures, and its tenants'' living conditions and experiences before, during and after the Famine. It explores the relationship Lord Palmer, an absentee landlord, had with his tenants and the influence and control he had on the locality, its politics and the lives of the community on his estates.

La 4ème couverture indique :"Qu''est-ce que la musique ? Elle était autrefois un évènement social dans la continnuum de nos vies : on allait l''écouter ou on la pratiquait collectivement. Avec l''enregistrement, elle est aussi devenue un produit-un objet qui peut être vendu, acheté, privatisé et rejoué indéfiniment dans n''importe quel contexte. Les communautés humaines ne cessent, partout dans le monde, d''adapter leurs manières de créer, conserver, distribuer et recevoir la musique. Retracer ces métamorphoses, c''est comprendre ce qu''elle est pour nous aujourd''hui et , peut-être, pourquoi nous l''aimons autant. Dans ce livre-somme, l''auteur dévoile la fabrique de la musique, tout ce qui la fait vivre et nous fait vibrer : le processus de création, l''architecture des lieux d''écoute, ses effets sur nos émotions, l''influence des technolohies et jusqu''aux logiques économiques qui régissent l''industrie musicale. En filigrane de cette exploration se dessinent et la figure et le parcours du compositeur et musicien David Byrne, depuis mes premiers concerts de Talkin Heads au milieu des années 1970. Témoin et acteur d''une scène expérimentale naissante, l''artiste revisite son apprentissage en amateur, ses pratiques collaboratives et la découverte d''autres univers musicaux à Bali, au Japon, en Afrique de l''Ouest ou au Brésil".

For more than a year, David Byrne has been employing the ubiquitous sales and presentation program PowerPoint as an art medium. E.E.E.I (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information) is a book of images and essays, plus a DVD which plays 5 of his PowerPoint presentations accompanied by original music. The book component contains a dozen new exploratory texts and a whole lot of bold, graphic images created with the help of PowerPoint''s built-in tools and visuals--not to mention the fun of plastic overlays and nifty foldout pages. And you may ask yourself, what is the meaning of this? And you may ask yourself, what is this about? It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audiovisual form--using a medium in a way that is different, and possibly better, than what was intended. It is about appropriating a contemporary, corporate staple and making something critical, beautiful and humorous with it.

Amid urgent debates around the function of welfare in the post-industrial 21st Century, and how we pay for it, David Byrne and Sally Ruane deploy the concepts and analytical tools of Marxist political economy to better understand recent developments, and the possibilities they present for social change

From November 2012, for eleven months I was employed as the CEO by a new company called Euro Forex Investment Ltd (EFIL). It was the UK subsidiary of a private Asian business whose official name was Euro Fx. Being quite a mouthful to say, the name, "Euro Forex Investments Limited" was often shortened to "Euro Fx" by the Asian executives, both verbally and on literature. It was this seemingly innocuous, but deliberate, abbreviation that was to have dire consequences later. After leaving the company it was revealed that the whole set up had been a scam, fleecing billions of dollars from unsuspecting victims, and I had been set up as the "fall guy". Whilst visiting Shanghai in 2016, I was arrested; accused of being one of the orchestrators, and placed under arrest. Facing a possible death penalty or many years in jail, a mission of discovery to prove my innocence began.

Discussions of time are central to many questions in the social sciences and to official announcements of policy. Despite the growing popularity of applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to social science research questions, before now there have been few attempts to measure expressions of time. This paper provides a methodology to measure the "third T of Text": the Time dimension. We also survey the techniques used to measure the other Ts, namely Topic and Tone. We document key stylised facts relating to temporal information in a corpus of policymaker speeches.