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Ab Audire: Gifts of the Heart
Authors: Theatre Vancouver Moving , Walling Savannah , Hunter Terry , Hunter Terry , Shantz Valerie
Published: June 2023

Ab Audire: Gifts of the Heart opens in an explosion of colour and sound. The character of Drum Mother rides on to the stage, drumming the audience into anticipation of the upcoming event. Performer Terry Hunter and director Savannah Walling have created a solo piece in which organic sound and movement are the core. Ab Audire is one of a series of works in Vancouver Moving Theatre’s “The Samarambi Cycle”, a collection of nonverbal, audience-interactive productions featuring a family of masked and costumed characters created by the company. The work of VMT, founded in 1983 by Walling as Artistic Director and Hunter as Managing Director, showcases stylized movement, virtuoso drum dancing, percussion, clowning, and performer-produced musical scores, costumes, and masks
Handmade, Sleeptracks, and Happy Hour
Authors: Farfan Penny
Published: June 2023

Jest in TImeis a Halifax-based company of four performers Sherry Lee Hunter, Mary Ellen MacLean, Christian Murray, and Shelley Wallace-whose roots are in mime but whose work has increasingly come to involve speech and text. The three pieces that the company presented on May I, 1996 at the "Survivors of the Ice" Age Festival in Winnipeg reflected this evolution. "Handmade" is an early movement piece accompanied by a mechanical and inorganic soundscape composed by Sandy Moore; "Sleeptracks" is a later work still grounded in mime but incorporating recorded human sounds such as Sighs, groans, and fragments of speech; and "Happy Hour" is a text-based excerpt from Jest in Time’s most recent work Accidental Blood and was developed in collaboration with Cape Breton playwright Bryden MacDonald. Essentially a one-act play with a linear narrative throughline, conventional dramatic characters, and scripted dialogue spoken live, "Happy Hour" was less inventive and compelling than the other two works.
“Great lines are a dime a dozen”
Authors: Knowles Richard Paul
Published: June 2023

Judith Thompson cuts great lines, and even great scenes, with alarming alacrity. She also revises and rewrites with an enviable disregard for past success, critical acclaim, or anything, it seems, except the dynamics of the moment. Those who attended Tarragon Theatre’s 1990 revival of The Crackwalker, or their tenth-anniversary production of White Biting Dog in 1994, or even the Tarragon opening of Lion in the Streets only a few months after the play’s du Maurier World Stage première in the spring of 1990, will have found themselves destabilized by evocative alterations to scenes that have become famous (such as that of the death of the baby, Danny, in The Crackwalker); confronted with new clarities (such as the appearance of the title character in the revised White Biting Dog); surprised by wholly reconceived scenes (such as the replacement of Sherry’s anti-feminist diatribe in Lion in the Streets with an equally disturbing, fully-developed scene between Sherry and her brutal boyfriend, Edward); or even the complete absence of favourite scenes (such as the powerful encounter of the murderer, Ben, with his stepmother, Joan, cut at the last minute from the Tarragon and Great Canadian Theatre Company productions of Lion in the Streets).
Strangers to Ourselves
Authors: Nunn Robert
Published: June 2023

Judith Thompson’s gift is to enter into the mind, soul and bod y of her characters: she has said th at she ge ts “into their blood” (Knowles 7). Her cha racters are at the extreme edges of wha t most peop le can comprehend:Theresa the retard ed dou ghnut junkie; Mercy, whose lonelin ess is infinite; Joanne, face to face with her own death; Scarl ett , wh o breathes life int o that deadly phrase, ’di fferently abled’, Carl, the racist skinhead. Terence said “No thing human is alien to me”, and so might Judith Thompson. But she does not make the stranger familia r; she does not expla in or account for her cha rac ters. They are. She does not allow us to assimilate them, translate their ex-eentricity into terms we understand. Nor does she allow us to set them apart from us, hold them at a safe distance, treat them as Other-than-us.
Judith Thompson: A Bibliography
Authors: Hong Ahnes , Thompson Judith
Published: June 2023

I Am Yours. In Modern Canadian Plays. Ed. Jerry Wasserman. Vol. 2. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1994. 223-255

Vol. 2. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1994. 223-255.

Lionin the Streets. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992.

"Mouthful of Pearls". The Monkey King and Other Stories. Ed. Griffin Ondaatje. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995. 209-217.
American Mug, Canadian Wump
Authors: Filewod Alan , Denison Merrill , Hay Marsh
Published: June 2023

Mugwump was Merrill Denison’s word for himself, from the American colloquialism that describes a politician who sits on a fence and faces two directions at once. In this image Denison saw a reflection of his own cultural duality. He was born with both Canadian and American citizenship, and throughout his life, in the personal and professional spheres, he sought to erase the border.
In Memoriam
Authors: DiCenzo Maria
Published: June 2023

’Readings’ saw some import ant changes under the edi torship of Jill Tomasson Goodwin who not so lon g ago welcomed CTR read ers to a revamped and expa nded review section. As the new review editor, I have the pleasure of introducing some furth er developments. The shift from ’Readings’ to ’In Review’ signa ls a break from an exclusive focus on published books and playtexts and a move towards more inclu sive coverage of events and debates relevant to Canad ian theatre.
Sisters/Strangers
Authors: Guevara Lina De
Published: June 2023

I first heard about the community play concept in 1989 when I attended at a workshop at the Bread and Butter Popular Theatre Festival. The workshop was led by Dale Hamilton who told us about her experiences as a community play student in the Colway Theatre Trust in England, showed slides and a video, and talked about The Spirit of Shivaree, the project she was starting to produce in Eramosa County in Ontario. I found her accounts of the community play process fascinating, particularly the concern of these plays with history and the fact that often people got the chance to play their own ancestors, their great grandfathers, their grandmothers... What an appealing idea!
Home at Last: Nova Scotia, 1996
Authors: Mendel Tessa
Published: June 2023

The Women’s Theatre and Creativity Centre was founded in 1995 to re-connect art and community with a women-centred focus. We do developmental workshop programs, projects in partnership with community organizations, and performance projects which demonstrate our belief that theatre and other art expressions need to be based in community in order to be an integral part of our lives.
The Artificial Tree
Authors: Starr Floyd Favel
Published: June 2023

The concept, Native Performance Culture, could be described as developing practices of our ancestors. It came about not as a clearly formulated plan based on a clear vision, but as a feeling and intuition born out of personal, cultural and universal needs.
Design, Computers, and Teaching
Authors: Watis Allan
Published: June 2023

It has only been in the past ten years or so that computers have been used to any extent in the theatre. During this time computers have become commonplace tools in theatrical administration (word processing, production schedules, budgets, contracts, publicity, inventories, etc.) and in lighting control, but other areas of theatre have been slower to computerize. Recently, some innovative technologies are beginning to be experimented with. It seems timely, therefore, to examine to what extent computers and available software are useful to the theatrical designer. Further, it may be useful to ask why some designers are reluctant to use computers, while others are consumed with a passion for this newest of technologies.
The Curricular Catherine Wheel
Authors: Mccullough Douglast
Published: June 2023

Is it just me or did most of us get our really important learning outside of the classroom? I have been at the front of the classroom now for some time and I find that much of the best of my teaching is still in side comments to individual students: “try this”; “you should read ”are you familiar with the work of this artist?“ That is the way the arts have always been taught, but sometimes now, toward the end of the academic year, with too many courses taught as a result of the universal downsizing of the Canadian University, I realize that the time available to teach between classes is rapidly evaporating. Even if we had the time, our students no longer do, having to earn ever increasing sums of money to finance an education that has one of the highest inflation rates in the country.
one word
Authors: Garnhum Ken
Published: June 2023

“When the bond between heaven and earth is broken even a prayer is not enough: only a story will mend it.”
A Setting for FRIDA K.
Authors: Garnhum Ken
Published: June 2023

This is what I know. It is a small and mottled room – Stucco and smoke and tiny explosions Of gold leaf. There are eyes in the walls and a pair Of incomplete hearts tied together With a bloody ribbon. Death is a traitor on top of the bed. A cock crows and sunlight brushes painted relics – Unanswered prayers stolen from god. It is a painting. The room is a painting and the woman is a detail – Eyebrows frozen in flight. Red flags and wooden floors. A letter written on a wall. A dress. A cry. The colour blue.
Bodies in Sight: Shawna Dempsey (Re)Configures Desire
Authors: Hall Lynda
Published: June 2023

Solo performance artist Shawna Dempsey (together with her collaborator, Lorri Millan) uses performance in an innovative way - one that exposes, bare(s) witness, and intervenes in the social “performance” of gender roles and also stages lesbian presence. Revealing how misogynist, heterosexist culture is re-produced, and therefore how it can be altered, she states, “in the self-created world of the performance space, our personas have the freedom to make their own self-definitions” (Bennett 9). Dempsey has collaborated with Lorri Millan on the creation of feminist, costume-based performance art since 1989. Her worldwide performances and Dempsey and Millan’s film and video productions critique cultural scripts for “femininity” and the appropriately performed, properly gendered body. Exemplifying Judith Butler’s claim that gender is “real only to the extent that it is performed” (278), Dempsey invites awareness of the performative aspects that produce gender in an ongoing process of cultural construction, including dress, stance, gestures, looks, and voice. Significantly, whether on the stage or in the street, her body and looks are very feminine, her body has the shape that culture tells women to strive for, and her age is within the range where women are provoked to show their bodies.
Object/Subject of Desire
Authors: Dempsey Shawna , Millan Lorri
Published: June 2023

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have been creating performance-based work in a variety of media since 1989. They articulate their feminist and lesbian concerns largely through the use of metaphoric costumes, animated by text and minimal gesture. Humour is a prominent feature of their work, consciously used to destabilize the viewer and create multiple/simultaneous meanings. Dempsey and Millan make their home in Winnipeg.
Festival de Théâtre des Amériques
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: June 2023

In a press conference at the end of the seventh edition of Montreal’s biannual Theatre Festival of the Americas (fta), its Director, Marie-Hélène Falcon, indicated that the Festival would not compromise its artistic plan in the interests of increasing attendance. Although attendance at most of the twenty shows performed to a total audience of 21 000 over eighteen days was excellent, “uncompromising” is perhaps the most accurate way of characterizing the Festival as a whole. While presenting outstanding theatre from Argentina, Australia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and the United States, as well as francophone and anglophone Quebec, francophone Ontario, and (anglophone) Alberta in an astonishing variety of styles and formats, most of the shows were singularly uncompromising in their form, subject matter, and style, as they were remarkably uncompromising in their treatment of actors and audiences.
Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre: A Changing of the Guards or Just Soldiering On?
Authors: Falkenstein Len
Published: June 2023

I am in the third floor offices of Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, flipping through an album of photos from last season’s productions as I await the arrival of Joe Shoctor, the Citadel’s founder and executive producer. When Shoctor - a man whose energy and flamboyance belie his seventy years - enters the room, I have reached the section in the album devoted to last year’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Part Two: Perestroika. A pained expression crosses his face as he notices this. “What do you want pictures of that play for?” he asks. “That play cost us subscribers.”
Noises Off-Right: Theatre in the Toronto Region
Authors: Breon Robin
Published: June 2023

In their two-volume chronicle of the history and evolution of the theatre in Ontario from the early 1800s to the early 1970s, aptly titled Early Stages (volume 1) and Later Stages (volume 2), editors Ann Saddlemyer and Richard Plant have constructed a rich collection of essays that traces the development of theatre in the province, beginning with the early, mainly imported touring troupes which led to the advent of early indigenous theatricals produced by numerous amateur companies. These travelling companies explored the theatrical landscape of the period and led the way for the development of plays, playwrights and the birth of a professional Canadian theatre in Ontario. This history ends with the burgeoning of cultural nationalism in the mid-1960s and early ’70s. These two volumes are indispensable guide-posts for anyone attempting a reading of the state of our theatre in 1998. If Early Stages and Later Stages tell us anything about the present stage, it is that Toronto seems to have been destined to become a major centre for theatrical production.
Speaking as Part of Canada: An Interview with Gordon McCall about Centaur Theatre
Authors: Graham Catherine
Published: June 2023

Gordon McCall, the first new artistic and executive director of Montreal’s Centaur Theatre since Maurice Podbrey founded the theatre in 1969, refers to his new position as “the opportunity of a lifetime.” His explanations of why he wanted that position and what he intends to do with it tell us a lot about the unique position of Centaur theatre among Canada’s regionals. They also demonstrate how a new generation of artistic directors is taking on both the dreams and the problems underlying a system of regionals that is now a generation old.
NONE IS TOO MANY
Authors: Sherman Jaso , Abella Irving , Troper Harold
Published: June 2023

Jason Sherman was born in Montreal in 1962, the seventh of eight sons . He graduated from York University’s Creative Writing Program in 1985 and, that same year, founded What Publishing which produced what, a literary magazine which he edited from 1985-1990. While Sherman is probably best known for his rapid achievement of acclaim as a dramatist, his venture with what marks his alternate career as a journalist whose reviews, essays and interviews which have appeared not only in the journal he edited, but in The Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatrum, among others . In addition, Sherman edited two anthologies for Coach House Press: Canadian Brash (1991) and Solo (1993.) A prolific writer, Sherman’ s League of Nathans was produced by Orange Dog/Theatre Passe Muraille in 1992; Three in the Back, Two ill the Head, a 1994 co-production of Necessary Angel, Tarragon Theatre and the National Art s Centre, was honoured with a Governor General’s Award in 1995. The Retreat was mounted by Tarragon Theatre in 1996. Reading Hebron was produced by Factory Theatre in 1996, and None is Too Many was produced by Winnipeg’s Jewish Theatre and the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1997. He writes the dramatic series PMO heard monthly on CBC’S Morning side and This Morning. He has been a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre since 1992.
Drumming Towards a Better Future
Authors: Parameswaran Uma
Published: June 2023

When Maria DiCenzo phoned me to ask if I would guest edit an issue on South Asian Canadian Drama, I was delighted as it is a great opportunity to record the contribution to Canadian Drama that is being made by Canadians of South Asian descent.
Mermaid Theatre and its Place in Canadian Puppetry
Authors: Morrow Jim
Published: June 2023

Mermaid Theatre’s evolution as one of Canada’s foremost theatres for children and their families owes much of its success to its uncomplicated philosophy: tell a good story, tell it simply, tell it well and tell it often. Since its inception in 1972, Mermaid has been touring its unique brand of storytelling throughout Nova Scotia, Canada and beyond to more than two million children and their parents. The company has travelled from the coast of Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, from Alaska to Florida, from Mexico to Japan, from Australia to Northern Ireland. In an average year, Mermaid Theatre performances are seen by 100, 000 spectators, in venues from remote community centres and schools to some of the largest theatres in the world.
The Heroic Success of Opera Atelier
Authors: Clark Caryl
Published: June 2023

I have an admission to make at the outset: I am an avid fan of Opera Atelier and have been for many years. I missed their sporadic early performances at the Royal Ontario Museum, only learning about the company and its daring performances of Baroque opera when it began performing in the Walker Court at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Since those early, heady days, the company has grown from an upstart grassroots organization – known as much for the pluck and pique of its directorial team as for the esoteric nature of its repertory – into a leading opera-ballet company of international stature. Now in its fourteenth year, Opera Atelier remains a company whose mandate is not to stage standards of the nineteenth-century operatic repertory (the mainstays of most opera companies), but rather to resurrect less popular seventeenth- and eighteenth-century operas. Despite fiscal restraints, government cutbacks and the threat of financial insolvency early in the 1990s, Opera Atelier’s co-founders, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Zingg, have united practical business acumen with a firmly controlled artistic vision to place their company on a sure financial footing. Their innovative partnerships and clever programming, coupled with the adaptability and resiliency necessary to all growing companies, suggest that the company’s future might be analogous to the baroque plots it represents, plots with multiple complications but affirmative conclusions.
In Review: Stanislavski on Opera
Authors: Dicenzo Maria , Fischlin Daniel
Published: June 2023

Stanislavski on Opera details the experience of Pavel Rumyantsev, an actor-singer/director who participated in most of the operatic productions to emerge from Stanislavski’s Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre. The studio was founded in 1918 through the influence of E.K. Malinovskaya, manager of the State Theatres in Moscow, then later converted in 1924 into the Stanislavski Opera Studio and in 1926 into the Opera Studio-Theatre, ending up in 1928 as the Stanislavski Opera Theatre (the many names perhaps accounting, at least partially, for the students’ nickname for the studio: “School on the Move”). Rumyantsev took detailed notes of the productions mounted by the variously named studios, and the result is a lengthy exposition of Stanislavski’s musical theatre methodologies, his directorial principles, his blocking instructions and his scenographic innovations. Writing in the style of a memoir, with all the attendant difficulties of speaking authoritatively in another’s voice or of transcribing another’s voice with any degree of historical accuracy, Rumyantsev devotes his attentions to chronicling Stanislavski’s attempt to transform operatic production via the notion of theatre as “an expression of collective art” (374).
Voice and Process: Instinct versus Skill
Authors: Bulmer Alex
Published: June 2023

This discussion about voice and process is in two parts: first, an overview of my approach to voice teaching, the history behind it, and its application to the theatre; and second, a related conversation with actor, writer and voice coach Kate Lynch.
Making The Wines of Tuscany
Authors: Alexandrowicz Conrad
Published: June 2023

Like any other journey, the creation of a performance work unfolds over a series of steps that arrives at a destination – or the first of many destinations, if the work has a long and varied life. Each step reflects a single choice made out of a sea of possibilities. But whereas one can easily see how one got from Toronto to Siena, it may be much harder to retrace the path that has led to something which seems to have a life of its own. One stands back, perhaps rather astonished, and asks, “How did this come to be?” Though difficult and probably doomed to failure, the reflective exercise of retracing one’s steps may teach one a great deal about one’s taste as an artist.
Inexpressible Island
Authors: Young David , McKinnie Michael
Published: June 2023

David Young’s Inexpressible Island is a fictional historiography of a scientific expedition stranded in Antarctica in 1912. A detachment of Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated mission to the South Pole, the Eastern expedition was surveying another region of the continent when it became trapped without sufficient shelter or supplies as winter set in. The group dug caves in the snow, killed seals and penguins for food and oil and managed to survive seven months of cold, hurricanes, hunger, filth and sickness.
Troubled Bodies: Women Playwrights in a New Millennium Going It Alone, Spring Planting, Prerogatives: Plays by Women, Tiger’s Heart
Authors: Dicenzo Maria , Brennan Kit
Published: June 2023

How do we read women’s writing in 1999? From the vantagepoint of a closing century and a new millennium, there is something almost nostalgic about the question. The very phrase women’s writing recalls theory wars of the seventies and eighties whose urgency has become a rather distant memory. It evokes past struggles for stakes that included both writing the (feminine) body and righting its ideological wrongs. These were necessary battles, hard-fought and hard-won, battles that permanently altered the practice, institutions and discourses of cultural criticism. Clearly, there is no going back. Yet how precisely to go forward?
Theatre Design
Authors: Izenour George C.
Published: June 2023

Film analysis has learned to register presence of the camera, but performance analysis rarely considers the theatre space among the interactive elements. Dramaturgy, scenography or the mise en scene absorb commentary which tends to ignore the effects of the architecture on seeing, hearing and sharing, unless the production is in a new venue or in a strikingly unconventional space. Perhaps the concentration on lit space is a result of many theatre buildings being adapted for performance rather than having been designed specifically for it; moreover, in our enthusiasm for artists we have become habituated to considering performance in isolation from architecture, concentrating on “aesthetic expression.” However, the range of adapted spaces in Canada, such as Young People’s Theatre in Toronto, or Usine-C in Montreal invites study of the spaces of performance. And as the Livent empire reassesses its fortunes, as municipalities reconsider their commitments to housing the arts and as heritage societies raise funds for restoring/renovating old theatres, we might well pause to consider what architectural features of theatre might be most valuable, always bearing in mind how multimedia performances are to fit into our buildings.
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
Authors: Russell Bill
Published: June 2023

Le Théâtre Cyroy produced the Canadian premiere of Bill Russell’s Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens and their own French translation, Élégies pour les anges, les anarchistes, et les folles enragées, in one-off performances last November to coincide with World AIDS Day. All proceeds from ticket sales for both shows were donated to The Farha Foundation, which distributes funds to over fifty Quebec AIDS organizations. While Russell’s sentimental script leaves much to be desired as a look at the disease in the late 1990s, Cyroy’s production deserves attention as a benefit event drawing from a wide variety of talent in both the English and the French theatre communities in Montreal.
Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Authors: Bouzek Don
Published: June 2023

Rag, Tag and Bobtail was first presented by Ground Zero Productions on March 1, 1996 in the Nathan Cohen Studio at Young People’s Theatre.

It was a special presentation for the Labour Council Of Metropolitan Toronto and York Region, President Linda Torney. The play was developed in honour of the 125th Anniversary of the Labour Council.
Ways of forming a healthy lifestyle in higher education students
Authors: Horodetska O.O. , Dmytrenko S.M. , Khurtenko O.V. , Romanenko O.I. , Herasymyshyn V.P.
Published: June 2023

An analysis of literary sources regarding the ways of forming a healthy lifestyle among students of higher education institutions was carried out.

The most important task is the formation of the acquirer's conscious attitude to his health, the formation of physical health, the awareness of the need for physical improvement and the habit of independent physical education and sports, the acquisition of knowledge and skills of a healthy lifestyle. It was determined that the condition for the implementation of health-improving methods in institutions of higher education is the formation of students' valuable attitude to health.

The modern system of physical education in higher education institutions of Ukraine and health technologies that affect the level of motivation for physical exercises are characterized. The main problems of forming a healthy lifestyle and ways to solve them have been identified. It has been proven that the use of modern methods, various options of health programs, cyclic speed-strength or complex exercises contribute to the involvement of student youth in motor activity.
Physical preparedness of female cadets in the process of sectional work in judo wrestling in the institutions of higher education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Authors: Kotov S. M.
Published: June 2023

Significant number of women want to study in the higher education institutions and work in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The training of female cadets with a high level of development of motor skills is an important task in higher education institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The authors of scientific and methodological works note that the sectional training in various sports (in particular, judo wrestling) is one of the effective ways to optimize the process of the training of the cadets in the higher education institutions with the specific learning conditions. We conducted a study of the indicators of the preparedness of the cadets-women who during the year of study were engaged in the program "Special Physical Training" without attending sectional classes. We compared their results with the results of the cadets who trained in the judo wrestling section. The results show that the traditional curriculum of the discipline "Special Physical Training" effectively contributes to the improvement of the physical preparedness (strength and speed qualities, coordination, endurance, flexibility). Judo wrestling classes are an effective mean of the extracurricular activities of the cadets-women. They help to increase their physical fitness characteristics. They also help to learn self-defense tactics of law enforcement officers.
Physical education in institutions of higher education in the context of the vision of movement technologies for the formation of a culture of personal health
Authors: Matviіenko Mykhailo , Kachalov Oleksandr , Novytskyi Yurii
Published: June 2023

The purpose of the study was to clarify the views of the authors on the substantive features of the selection of educational materials in the context of prioritizing their presentation in lecture presentations, to highlight key topics for discussion at seminar classes, and to outline practical tasks for creating pedagogical conditions for the formation of students' competent abilities to use the acquired knowledge in their own life and professional activity.

The paper provides a theoretical analysis of the meaningful characteristics of the terms and concepts of the discipline, presents a vision of logical connections between them and the relevance of students' awareness of such dependencies. The results of empirical studies of students' conscious understanding of the essence of concepts are considered, and the authors' vision of the cause- and-effect relationships of false awareness and motivational attitudes to motor activity is illuminated.

The novelty of the study should be considered the forms and methods proposed by the authors of introducing educational elements of theoretical familiarization into methodically grounded practical studies of one's own indicators of physical development and the dynamics of functional states in the conditions of extremity of the military state and distance learning.

The conclusions point to the understanding of the contents defined by the topic, emphasize the views on the main directions of the selection of educational materials, the development of tools and methods of systematic training of students of the pedagogical profession for the assimilation of knowledge from the educational discipline "Culture of personal health" (in the part of the "Motion Technologies" Program).

The authors classified the thematic areas into three groups: General theoretical (definition of terms and concepts and clarification of historical stages of development of the field of Physical Culture); Mastering knowledge about the peculiarities of health training and the basics of self-control; Mastering knowledge of methodological features of the organization of motor activity of schoolchildren.
Аccuracy of different methods of assessing competitive results in air gun shooting in olympic disciplines
Authors: Mykhailov V.V. , Korostylova Y. S. , Mykhailov V.V. , Yarmak O.M.
Published: June 2023

The article deals with the problem of improving shooting evaluating system of air gun results in Olympic disciplines. A total of 45 competition finals were analysed, in which 164 shooters from 35 countries took part. The shooting results in Olympic air guns disciplines at international competitions such as World, European and Asian Championships, World Cups and ISSF Grand Prix among men and women in individual, mixed pairs and team events were analysed. Based on the results of 45 competitions, it was established that in many cases the shooters took worse places with a larger score results. According to the results of our research, it was found that the scales for evaluating the results in air gun shooting competitions in Olympic disciplines could have different accuracy and quality. The rating scale for whole points, drawn up according to the linear regression equation with the characteristics D = 99.03% and Ā = 7.25%, does not meet the requirements of high accuracy and gives errors in the selection of the best shooters to participate in competition finals. The scale evaluating the results by points received the worst quality indicators (D = 76.36% and Ā = 41.64%), which is beyond the minimum acceptable values (D ˂ 80% and Ā > 15%). The use of the highest accuracy scales can improve the objectivity of determining the medallists in air gun competitions in Olympic disciplines.
The Peculiarities of Physical Fitness Test System of the British Armed Forces
Authors: Petrachkov Oleksandr , Zhembrovskyi Serhii
Published: June 2023

The article examines the optimization of Physical Fitness Test System of the British Armed Forces based on the experience of conducting combat operations in military conflicts of the 21st century. Scientific researches, justifications and experience of implementing of modern approaches of the implementation of Physical Fitness Test System of commissioned officers were analysed. This Test System takes into account phased testing of physical fitness levels, suitability and preparedness in different periods of training and combat activity, taking into account the specifics of professional activity, but without an emphasis on gender and age differences.

The effective methods of physical fitness testing are used in the British Armed Forces. They are: the verification of educational process and indicators of the effectiveness of the developed programs, the perception and the awareness of training process in order to determine the physical condition of commissioned officers, and make changes in the training process; conducting a medical examination of servicemen with a health problems or limited functional capabilities, with subsequent allocation to medical rehabilitation groups. The purpose of the study was to analyse changes in Physical Fitness Test System of the British Armed Force and to introduce new fitness tests. Conclusions. The analysis of changes in Physical Fitness Test System of the British Armed Forces determined the idea of introducing a list of new standards that are used in the conditions of combat activity. The developed Physical Fitness system in the British Armed Forces is characterized by formation of physical readiness of commissioned officers to acquire capabilities to perform combat tasks as assigned by introducing military-applied tests into the physical training system, which are performed in the conditions of combat and training-combat activities. Also, the Physical Fitness system is characterized by step-by-step implementation of specialized tests at different stages of training, which reveals a comprehensive approach in physical fitness system; the same approaches to the regulatory framework in the test system regardless of gender and age characteristics; increasing the list of physical exercises of explosive strength and power endurance with a simultaneous decrease of aerobic endurance exercises.
Tailoring the Spray Conditions for Suspension Plasma Spraying
Authors: Joulia A. , Duarte W. , Goutier S. , Vardelle M. , Vardelle A. , Rossignol S.
Published: June 2023

In this study, a wide range of suspension plasma spraying conditions are used to produce YSZ coatings for intended use in liquid gas engines. To meet specifications, the coatings must exhibit a homogeneous microstructure with no vertical cracks or columns, low surface roughness, and low thermal conductivity. The properties of the plasma jet (velocity, enthalpy, stability), droplets (trajectory, number, size), and particles (velocity) were measured during spray trials and are correlated with coating microstructure. Suspension plasma spraying conditions necessary for depositing disk-shaped splats and achieving finely structured coatings with no stacking defects are described along with substrate cooling requirements.
Influence of Spray Angle on Cold Spray with Al for the Repair of Aircraft Components
Authors: Blochet Q. , Delloro F. , N’Guyen F. , Borit F. , Jeandin M. , Roche K. , Surdon G.
Published: June 2023

This study deals with the influence of spray angle on the deposition of cold-sprayed Al particles. Spray trails were conducted in parallel with finite element simulations of particle deformation and coating build-up as a function of spray angle, powder size, substrate roughness, and surface configuration. Coating cross-sections and splats were examined by SEM; bonding strength and particle adhesion were determined via laser shock adhesion testing. Experimental as well as modeling results show that splats deposited at spray angles less than 60° are highly deformed and poorly adhered. Based on the findings, several conclusions are drawn with regard to the potential use of cold spraying for the repair of aircraft components.
State-of-the-Art Control and Measurement Techniques for High Performance Arc Sprayed Cylinder Bore Coating in Automotive Engine Production
Authors: Wagener W. , Woisetschläger P. , Bauer A.
Published: June 2023

This paper presents an overview of the engineering and innovation behind BMW’s use of thermal spraying in the production of automotive engines at its light metal foundry in Landshut, Germany. It discusses the factors that drive engine development at BMW, the different approaches in play for improving the performance of cast aluminum crankcases, and the opportunities made possible by thermal spray technology. It describes the aluminum crankcase production process, from die casting to honing, with emphasis on BMW’s state-of-the-art implementation of twin wire arc spraying. It explains how the spraying process is controlled and how key process steps and parameters are monitored and optimized in real time along with coating properties and microstructures. If a coating defect is detected, it is documented on the fly and, in many cases, corrected in a subsequent process step. A few examples of defect detection at work are presented.
Study on PTWA Process and Application to Car Engine Cylinder Bores
Authors: Darut G. , Liao H. , Coddet C. , Bordes J. M.
Published: June 2023

In this investigation, high carbon steel wire is deposited on aluminum cylinder bores with different surface profiles by plasma transferred wire arc (PTWA) spraying. The first part of the study deals with feedstock materials, process parameters, droplet formation, and splat morphology. The second part deals with bead profiles, build rates, and the influence of substrate composition, temperature, and surface profile on coating characteristics including microstructure, morphology, composition, and bond strength.
Cold Spray Deposition of a WC-25Co Cermet onto Al7075-T6 and Carbon Steel Substrates
Authors: Couto M. , Dosta S. , Guilemany J. M.
Published: June 2023

The main objective of this study is to determine the optimum conditions for cold spraying a WC-Co nanopowder on aluminum alloy and carbon steel substrates. XRD tests were run on the powder and coatings to determine if phase changes occurred during spraying. Coating samples were evaluated via adhesion, corrosion, and wear testing. Cold spraying proved to be very competitive with conventional thermal spray techniques, producing thick, dense, hard WC-Co coatings on steel as well as aluminum with excellent tribological and electrochemical properties.
Modelling of Impact and Bonding of Inhomogeneous Particles in Cold Spraying
Authors: Assadi H. , Klassen T. , Gärtner F. , Nanbu T. , Kawashita Y. , Uehara Y.
Published: June 2023

In this study, Eulerian finite element analysis is used to explore the deformation and bonding behavior of composite particles deposited by cold spraying. The objective is to account for shear instability and bonding as well as the geometry of the deforming material. An accurate description of the geometry is essential when the amount of deforming material is limited as in composite particles. Another goal is to provide a framework for modeling the impact of agglomerates. In this case, deposition is influenced by bonding and fragmentation or detachment due to plastic rebound. To account for the latter effect, thin layers of nonbonding material are added to particle and substrate surfaces in the model. Simulations of metal-clad ceramic particles show that there is a critical shell thickness beyond which maximum stress in the hard phase abruptly increases.
A Preliminary Microstructure Investigation of YSZ Coatings Deposited by Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition using a Shrouded Plasma Torch
Authors: Chen Q.-Y. , Li C.-J. , Li C.-X. , Yang G.-J. , Zhao J.-Z.
Published: June 2023

In this study, YSZ coatings are deposited by plasma spray-physical vapor deposition using a shroud to limit expansion of the plasma jet and increase its heating ability. Optical emission spectroscopy shows that the shroud significantly increases the evaporation of YSZ particles in the jet, resulting in coatings with a hybrid columnar structure. SEM examination of coating surfaces and cross-sections reveal micro and nanoscale features and, in each case, the mechanisms of formation are discussed.
Intermediate PVD Layers as Diffusion Barriers in Turbine Coating Systems
Authors: Ali I. E. , Wett D. , Grund T. , Nestler D. , Wielage B. , Lampke T.
Published: June 2023

Thermal barrier coatings typically incorporate a YSZ topcoat and a metallic bond coat. During service, a reaction zone consisting of different thermally grown oxides forms at the interface. Although most such oxides are detrimental, one (α-Al2O3) improves service life due to its barrier effect on oxygen diffusion. In this study, Al and AlOx films are deposited on metallic bond coats by dc magnetron sputtering prior to topcoat deposition. The resulting TBCs were thermally cycled to determine the effect of the interlayer films on service life and TGO formation. It is shown that the Al films transform in situ into dense Al2O3 layers that act as oxygen diffusion barriers. TBCs with interlayer alumina, whether deposited directly or formed in situ, showed less cracking and were more mechanically stable during thermal cycle tests.
Thermal Spray Coatings for High Temperature Corrosion Protection in Biomass Co-Fired Boilers
Authors: Oksa M. , Metsäjoki J. , Kärki J.
Published: June 2023

In this study, several thermal spray coatings and reference materials were evaluated for potential use in biomass co-fired boilers. The coatings were applied to T92, A263, and X10Cr13 substrates by HVOF and wire-arc spraying using powder (IN625, FeCr, NiCr) and wire (NiCrTi) feedstocks. Coating samples were examined then tested for 5900 h in the superheater area of a fluidized bed boiler burning a mixture of wood, peat, and coal. The corrosion behavior of the coating and reference materials is reported in the paper and the underlying corrosion mechanisms are discussed.
Deposition of Dense Ceramic Coatings by Detonation Spraying
Authors: Ulianitsky V. , Shtertser A. , Batraev I. , Smurov I.
Published: June 2023

Alumina and chromia coatings were deposited on steel substrates by detonation spraying in order to determine the effect of spray parameters on adhesion, hardness, porosity, and dielectric strength. Test results show that both coatings have low porosity, high hardness, and good adhesion strength and that both can be effective as wear-resistant electrically insulating layers on metal parts.
New Composites for Electrical High Thermal Applications
Authors: Vidal D. R. , Cano I. G. , Guilemany J. M.
Published: June 2023

This study assesses the viability of producing electrically conductive carbon nanofiber (CNF) reinforced mullite coatings by thermal spraying. Mullite-CNF agglomerated powder was prepared by spray drying and was deposited on steel by atmospheric plasma spraying. The coatings obtained are characterized based on composition, structure, shape, thickness, and electrical conductivity and are compared with coatings produced from commercial mullite powder.
Effect of Pore Size on the Plasma Sprayed Coating’s Stress Distribution
Authors: Wang W. , Wang L. , Yu Z. , Xuan F.
Published: June 2023

In this work, finite element analysis is used to investigate the effect of pore size on the stress intensity factor (SIF) of plasma sprayed coatings. Test samples with different pore sizes were obtained by spraying wollastonite powders with particle sizes of 60-75 μm, 75-95 μm, and 95-150 μm onto Ti6Al4V coupons. The results show that coating stress varies in proportion to the length of 2D pores and to a lesser extent the diameter of 3D pores. This implies that reducing the length of 2D pores may be considered as a way to increase the fracture resistance of plasma sprayed coatings.
Investigations of Technological Developments in Nozzle Design for Twin Wire Arc Spraying by Means of Spray Plume Characteristics
Authors: Tillmann W. , Hagen L. , Abdulgader M. , Rademacher H. G. , Schmidt A. , Müller H. , Wiederkehr T.
Published: June 2023

The aim of this study is to determine how various factors, including process parameters and nozzle configurations, affect the shape and size of the spray jet in twin wire arc spraying. In the experiments, steel specimens were sprayed using an iron-based cored wire with a fused tungsten carbide filling. In-flight particle temperature and velocity and fluctuations in voltage and current were measured during spraying. The shape of the thermal spray spot and the 3D footprint of the plume were determined by means of image analysis and tactile surface profiling methods. The results obtained show that spray plume characteristics, and thus particle distribution, are heavily influenced by secondary gas flow, particularly the number, location, and angle of atomization outlet holes in the secondary gas nozzle.
Corrosion Protection for Wind Power Plants – The Influence of the Application Conditions by Thermally Spraying on the Corrosion Behaviour of ZnAl Coatings
Authors: Maghet T. , Maehrlein J. , Feser R. , Wilhelm T. , Klahold K.
Published: June 2023

The aim of this study is to compare the quality of corrosion-resistant thermal spray coatings depending on where and how they are applied. ZnAl15 coatings were applied to S235 steel substrates by wire arc spraying in keeping with standard (EN ISO 2063) practice. The coatings were sprayed under factory conditions and in a simulated onsite environment using manual and automated methods. As-sprayed and sprayed-and-sealed coating samples were subjected to climate-cycle and corrosion testing. Coatings applied onsite varied in quality to a much greater extent than those sprayed under workshop conditions. Poor quality, and implicitly a lower corrosion resistance, was widely detected in coatings where ZnAl was manually sprayed under simulated onsite conditions. The implications of the study are particularly relevant to the sustainability of coastal and offshore wind power generators due to maintenance challenges.
Microstructure and Fundamental Properties of Low Temperature HVOF Sprayed WC-10Co4Cr Coatings
Authors: Zhang J.-F. , Deng C.-M. , Liu M. , Zhou K.-S. , Huang J. , Han T.
Published: June 2023

Low-temperature HVOF spraying finds its potential applications in the preparation of high-performance metallic coatings with low oxygen content and porosity. In this study, the spraying method is used to deposit fine WC-10Co4Cr powders on stainless steel substrates at different spraying distances and the effects on microstructure, microhardness, fracture toughness, splat morphology, and surface roughness are investigated and discussed.
Mechanical Study of Novel VPS-Titanium Coating on Polyethylene Substrates
Authors: Wolinne G. , Jeandin M. , Corté L. , Ruch S. , Salito A.
Published: June 2023

This study assesses the strength and adherence of VPS titanium coatings on ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) substrates. Four-point bend tests show the existence of a critical tensile strain of 1% corresponding to the onset of cracking. For strains up to 6%, crack density increases with no observed debonding. Fatigue tests over 106 cycles reveal that the coating remains uncracked at a strain of 1% and stays in a stable cracked state without debonding as strain is increased to approximately 6%. A laser shock test developed specifically for titanium-polymer interfaces revealed the existence of a debonding threshold corresponding to the adhesion strength. The results serve as a guide for the design of orthopedic implants on which VPS titanium coatings are used and, more generally, open the way for systematic measurement of adhesion between metallic coatings and polymer substrates.