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Marking Time: The British Danseur and the Second World War
Authors: Eliot Karen 
Published: February 2017

Few Britons could resist the powerful rhetoric of Winston Churchill, whose words to the House of Commons in June 1940 (Churchill 1989) called upon all men, women, and children to do their utmost to serve the war effort. During the worst of the bombings, from 1940 to 1941, in what came to be known as “the blitz,” London and its populace were transformed. J. B. Priestly noted that “for once, [we] felt free, companionable, even—except while waiting for the explosions—lighthearted.” Fear, anxiety, the sense of struggle, or so the story goes, pulled Londoners together and united them in a sense of camaraderie that broke down centuries-old class barriers (Ziegler 1995, 165–166).Among the commonly accepted myths of the British participation in the Second World War was this one—perpetuated by British authorities and some later historians—that all classes and all people were united in common cause against the enemy. While true on some levels, the picture of an island nation joined in communal sacrifice during the “People's War” masks the underlying societal anxieties that muffled differences of opinion and threatened those who did not adopt accepted notions of patriotism. Vera Brittain, writing at a key point during the world conflict, noted that the Nazi invasions of Europe “produced a rising clamour against unpopular minorities throughout England,” and that “both government and people are temporarily seized by a panic of suspicion” (Brittain 1941, 33). In his examination of the twentieth-century manifestations of British nationalism, Patrick Wright, for one, noted that exclusionary impulses, emerging under the threat of foreign invasion, were linked to subtle but prevalent patterns of anti-Semitism prior to and during the war years (Wright 1985).
Limón's La Malinche: Negotiating the In-Between
Authors: Berg Shelley C. 
Published: February 2017

The artist; disciple, abundant, multiple, restless.The true artist, capable, practicing, skillful,Maintains dialogue with his heart, meets things with his mind.The true artist draws out all from his heartNáhuatl text quoted in Keen (1971, 23)Dancer and choreographer José Limón was an artist of epic proportions, both in terms of the scope of his creative energy and the depth of his passionate humanism. Many of his dances speak to his search for the nobility in the human spirit, while others explore darker themes of betrayal, conflict, and despair. Whatever the subject or theme, Limón's dances reveal a consummate craftsman, a devout formalist who sought to reconcile, through his dances, the drama of emotion with the exigencies of choreographic composition and design. As a choreographer, Limón was often most eloquent in creating compact dance-dramas with archetypal, mythic, or literary characters: The Moor's Pavane, The Exiles, The Emperor Jones, and La Malinche.Limón belongs to the second generation of American modern dancers; in his memoirs, the choreographer metaphorically casts Isadora Duncan and Harald Kreutzberg as his “parents,” Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman as his “foster parents,” and Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn as his “grandparents.” His true origins, while more prosaic, were central to his life as a creative artist. Limón was born in the city of Culiacán, in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. His father, Florencio Limón, was a musician, “a pedagogue, conductor and director of the State Academy of Music” (Garafola 1999, 1). His mother, Francisca, came from a good bourgeois family.
Performing One's Age: Cultural Constructions of Aging and Embodiment in Western Theatrical Dancers
Authors: Schwaiger Liz 
Published: February 2017

These two comments highlight contrasting approaches to aging for Western theatrical dancers. The first, a quote from movement practitioner Elizabeth Cameron-Dalman, reflects the expectation in Western cultures that professional dancers fortunate enough to have escaped major injury will not stay in their careers beyond their early to middle thirties. Consequently, despite some notable exceptions, there are few mature dancers regularly performing in classical and contemporary dance companies throughout these cultures. This expectation is based on a tacit, naturalized belief that beyond this age dancers' bodies become increasingly unable to cope with the physical demands of performing and that therefore they must retire. Furthermore, this is assumed to be a universal effect, rather than one that is relative to the individual dancer's physical capacities. By contrast, the second comment suggests that dancers can negotiate cultural constraints and continue their dance practice and performance in midlife and beyond.While some social pressures that influence retirement from dancing might have a direct (although not necessarily causal) relationship with chronological age, there are many reasons why dancers might retire from performing in their perceived prime. Comments from the interviews in my study suggest that these reasons can include financial and job instability, difficulty competing with younger dancers for scarce contracts, and increasing problems in maintaining peak physical condition as dancers age (Leach 1997, 47–49). These are complex issues and at present not clearly understood, but they suggest that age as a stand-alone category or as a means of defining a cohort has little meaning and limited utility in accounting for the cessation of dancing.
Moving Bodily Fantasies: Medical Performances and Modes of Communication
Authors: Kuppers Petra 
Published: February 2017

This article investigates the relationship between movement, communication, and medical presentation in three contemporary dance performances. In particular, I wish to present three instances of collaborative work: of work where boundaries between specialists and “lay people,” between different kinds of expertise, and different kinds of knowledges become questioned, dismantled, and (re)erected through performance. My argument hinges on the ongoing creative work involved in the translations between embodiment, phenomenological experience, narratives of self, medical stories, and cultural context. Living as a body in the world means a constant readjustment of these frames, a productive and often painful emergence of life through tensions. What it means to be a (gendered) specialist or a lay person, a patient, or a spectator, emerges in the call-and-response of everyday life, as roles are taken on, re-created, changed, and discarded.A celebrated U.K. dance performance (winner of the Critic's Circle National Dance Award 2004), a U.K. exploratory sci-art experiment by medical experts, writers, and performers, and an Australian music theater piece are at the heart of this analysis: the article explores alignments between semiotic and phenomenological knowledges in these performances. In all of these performances, women are center stage, sometimes as informers, sometimes as playwrights and visual artists, sometimes as main performers.
The Borders of Contemporary Israeli Dance: “Invisible Unless in Final Pain”
Authors: Aldor Gaby 
Published: February 2017

When Vertigo, an Israeli dance company, performed in collaboration with the English Ricochet dancers, there was one dance on the stage—one choreography—but the audience saw two different modes of movement. The English dancers were learned, elegant, arms and feet drawing long lines in space, the feet articulate. The Israelis danced with a powerful thrust, extremities loose, with total commitment and daring, their movements leaving in space traces of explosions too fast to recollect rather than spirals of continuity. How did this mode of movement develop? What is “Israeli” about Israeli dance?In this essay I offer a brief history of concert dance in Israel, then a largely descriptive account of choreographic and motional themes that distinguish contemporary Israeli dance. My descriptions of works by contemporary Israeli choreographers Jasmine Goder, Ronit Ziv, Anat Danielli, Shlomi Bitton, and Noa Dar are drawn mostly from observation of performances held during yearly Curtain Up festivals at the Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater in Tel Aviv. I also discuss works by Inbal Pinto, Rami Be'er, Nir Ben-Gal and Liât Dror, and finally, Ohad Naharin, artistic director and choreographer of the Batsheva Dance Company.
Juana de Laban: A Brief Biography
Authors: Flatt Robyn Baker 
Published: February 2017

I knew Juana de Laban for about twenty-three years. She was my mentor and distinctly affected the course of my life. Throughout those years I was thrilled but perplexed as to why this very strong woman with so many prominent associations would choose to befriend me, and why our friendship kept recurring after periods of being apart. When at the end of her life she handed her personal collection to me for deposit in the Dallas Theater Center, I became the link between this dynamic individual and her final effort to remain part of the fabric of life. In retrospect, as her personal and professional history unfolds a clearer picture emerges.I have constructed this biography from her materials and from correspondence with her family, students, and colleagues. I must stress that Juana was an extremely private person. She almost never spoke of personal things. Many persons still living also wish to respect her privacy. Furthermore, her own notes are often in conflict as to dates and figures. This brief account, therefore, stands to be verified, expanded and perhaps corrected in time.
Juana de Laban Collection
Authors: Shelton Suzanne 
Published: February 2017

It is a modest space, an angular, cramped room with exposed pipes overhead, a concrete floor. On all sides sprout wooden shelves laden with three thousand books and journals, photographs, slides, programs, and memorabilia – the Juana de Laban Collection, now housed at the Dallas Theater Center. To find the collection, one must climb narrow stairs and burrow through the Theater's wardrobe area to the tiny room beyond that houses the material lovingly collected by that bright and fiercely proud dance historian and critic who was also, overwhelmingly, the daughter of Rudolf Laban.Any scholar's library reflects his heart and mind, his interests and aspirations, his education. Juana de Laban's collection reveals an intellect remarkably catholic in its taste, astonishing in its breadth. It is the sort of library that skips across disciplines to include volumes on anthropology, psychology, history, aesthetics and criticism, all related to the study of human movement.
Remembering “Dr. Laban”
Authors: Schneider Gretchen 
Published: February 2017

While gathering the articles for this issue of Dance Research Journal with Dianne Woodruff, I often smiled as I recognized “the essential Juana” in the written perceptions of my colleagues. It has been hard to resist adding my own reminiscences, for “Dr. Laban” was a powerful figure in my introduction to dance after I transferred to UCLA's Dance Department in 1963. In fact, it was Dr. Laban who taught me dance history.I particularly remember laboring for months on my first dance history term paper. The topic consumed me then and amuses me no end today: Dancing had been born of animals and evolved to great humanistic expressions. How such a daringly broad yet hopelessly unlimited hypothesis got accepted, I will never understand. Part of the explanation may lie in the fact that Curt Sachs's World History of Dance was the uncritically-used text for the class, and part of the explanation may lie with my valiant effort to rationalize two earlier undergraduate years as an analytical biology major. Dr. Laban grasped the opportunity for interdisciplinary education and had me reading many things in science, including Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees and Darwin's Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals. I was fascinated by the worlds of thought opening, but completely at sea in the necessity of bringing ideas together for a term paper.
Twinning Rate in the Muslim Population of West Bengal
Authors: Das Chaudhuri A.B. , Basu S. , Chakraborty S. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractTotal birth records for the Bengalee Muslim population (BMP) and the Bengalee Hindu caste population (BHCP) for the period 1980-1988 were 17,720 and 119,107 respectively. Of these, the number of twin pairs were 363 BMP and 1,229 BHCP. These data were obtained from the registers of the following hospitals: Islamia Hospital, NRS Medical College and Hospitals and RG Kar Medical College and Hospitals, Calcutta and Medinipore Sadar Hospital, West Bengal, India. The twinning rates found were 20.48 and 10.57 per thousand deliveries in the BMP and BHCP respectively. The proportion of twins, 0.02048, in the BMP was significantly higher (Z = 12.38, p ≤ 0.01) than that in the BHCP, 0.01057. This finding of a higher twinning rate in the BMP is corroborated by the fact that available data on the Muslim population of Srinagar in Kammu and Kashmir, and Lucknow and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh show higher twinning rates than the other populations of India. This increased twinning rate may be due to the greater amount of inbreeding in the BMP.
Granite erratics in Beacon Valley, Antarctica
Authors: Dickinson Warren W. , Williams Grechen , Hill Matt , Cox Simon C. , Baker Joel A. 
Published: February 2017

AbstractWe present the first quantitative attempt at reconciling the source and emplacement of granite erratics in Beacon Valley. The erratics are enigmatic because granite does not crop out in the valley and its nearest subaerial exposure is at least 10 km downstream to the east of the valley. Detailed mapping of the valley shows three types of granite erratics, which are not present in equal amounts and do not show spatial patterns. Pb isotopic and elemental compositions of the erratics eliminate the Metschel Tillite as a source and indicate they derive from the Dry Valley plutons. Our limited study tentatively ties the erratics to suites of plutons, but it does not allow a direct tie of the erratics to specific plutons because of i) the geochemical variability of the plutons and ii) the limited number of erratics that were analysed. Published data suggest the erratics provide evidence of wet-based glaciation, which covered the Dry Valleys and much of Antarctica during the mid-Miocene. Our paper also explains the problems associated with the emplacement of these erratics and the age of the massive ice in Beacon Valley.
Differential Associations Between Problem and Pathological Gambling and Psychiatric Disorders in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Abuse or Dependence
Authors: Brewer Judson A. , Potenza Marc N. , Desai Rani A. 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACTBackground: Alcohol abuse and/or dependence, alcohol use disorders (AUDs), and problem and/or pathological gambling (PPG) frequently co-occur with each other and other psychiatric disorders. However, prior studies have not investigated the relative influence of AUDs on the associations between PPG and other psychiatric disorders.Methods: Nationally representative data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (n=43,093; United States residents ≥18 years of age) was used to examine the influence of AUDs on the associations between gambling and other psychiatric disorders and behaviors. The main outcome measures were co-occurrence of past-year AUD and Axis I and II disorders and severity of gambling based on the 10 inclusionary diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling.Results: Among non-AUD respondents, increasing gambl ing severity was associated with increasingly elevated odds for the majority of Axis I and II disorders. Among AUD respondents, this pattern was typically not observed. Alcohol-by-gambling-group interactions for PPG were also found and the odds of these disorders was significantly increased in non-AUD respondents with PPG, but either unchanged or significantly lower in AUD respondents with PPG.Conclusions: Gambling-related associations exist with multiple psychiatric disorders, but particularly in those without AUD. These associations have important implications with respect to conceptualization, prevention, and treatment of psychiatric disorders in individuals with gambling and/or AUDs.
Relationship Between Residual Symptoms of Depression and Self-reported Cognitive Impairment
Authors: Pedrelli Paola , Baer Lee , Iosifescu Dan V. , Fava Maurizio 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACTObjective: The present study aimed to investigate the associations between residual symptoms of depression and specific self-reported symptoms in several cognitive domains.Methods: The study investigated 117 patients with partially or fully remitted major depressive disorder (MDD) after treatment with antidepressant medications.Results: Fatigue was significantly associated with inability to focus, alertness, and feeling “blue”; low interest and difficulty with concentration were associated with apathy. No associations were found between deficits in the cognitive domains considered and residual symptoms such as self-blaming, feeling worthless, feeling hopeless, having suicidal thoughts, difficulty with sleep, and lack of appetite.Conclusion: Among MDD remitted patients endorsing residual symptoms such as fatigue and feeling “blue”, deficits in a range of cognitive domains should be carefully assessed and treated.
Are There Between-Country Differences in Motor Behavior of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Patients?
Authors: Zor Rama , Fineberg Naomi , Hermesh Haggai , Asigo Gbenga , Nelson Sanjay , Agha Hena , Eilam David 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACTBackground: Cross-cultural factors attributed to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that are widely investigated around the world are mostly epidemiological, with no respect to the impact of culture on the structure of OCD behavior itself.Methods: Nine Israeli and nine British OCD patients with respective non-OCD individuals were compared. To determine whether OCD symptoms are consistent across cultures, similarities in behavior were analyzed, as well as differences due to a country effect. In each country, nine OCD patients and nine non-OCD individuals were videotaped while performing the task that the patients attributed to their behavior.Results: Except for a significantly higher rate of repetition and higher performance of idiosyncratic acts, patients from both Israel and the United Kingdom showed high levels of similarities in 22 out of 24 parameters. Compared with Israeli subjects, British OCD patients had significantly longer chains of idiosyncratic acts, and a twice-higher prevalence of brief (1–2 second) idiosyncratic acts. Between-country differences were mild, possibly overridden by the conspicuous impact of OCD pathology, resulting in a similar OCD phenotype.Conclusion: These results qualitatively and quantitatively emphasize the universal appearance of the compulsions in OCD symptoms.
Enhancing Outcomes from Major Depression: Using Antidepressant Combination Therapies with Multifunctional Pharmacologic Mechanisms from the Initiation of Treatment
Authors: Stahl Stephen M. 
Published: February 2017

Traditional guidelines call for treatment of major depression with a sequence of single antidepressants. Augmentation with a second agent generally only occurs when the first agent is well tolerated and when it also provides at least some symptomatic improvement on its own. Since this standard approach leads to low rates of attaining and sustaining remission by the first agent, with diminishing returns for each subsequent agent, there is growing dissatisfaction with this approach to the treatment of major depression. One new trend is to attempt to enhance the rates of sustained remission from a major depressive episode by combining two therapeutic agents from the very initiation of treatment of a major depressive episode.Traditional treatment of major depression begins with a single “first line” antidepressant, and if it does not work or is not tolerated, trying another and then another. Unfortunately, this strategy results in disappointing remission rates for the first antidepressant (Figure 1), and disappointing rates of maintaining any improvement that is attained by this first agent because of high relapse rates over the next year despite continuing treatment with the first antidepressant (Figure 2A). And that is the good news. The bad news is that with each subsequent antidepressant treatment administered remission rates are progressively reduced (Figure 1). For those patients who do improve, they are progressively less likely to sustain their therapeutic gains despite continuing to take the drug that led to their initial improvement (Figure 2).
Mood Stabilizers in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Authors: Maremmani Icro , Pacini Matteo , Lamanna Francesco , Pani Pier Paolo , Perugi Giulio , Deltito Joseph , Salloum Ihsan M. , Akiskal Hagop 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACTIndividuals suffering from drug addiction may also manifest features of bipolar spectrum disorders. Hyperthymic and cyclothymic temperaments may render individuals vulnerable to later development of substance abuse. Bipolar disorders themselves may be altered or precipitated by substance use, most notably by stimulants (amphetamines), alcohol, and cannabinoids.The clinical usefulness of mood stabilizers, particularly antiepileptics, has been established as safe and effective in substance abusers with and without comorbid mood disorders. Most studies on this issue have been of short duration and focused on the resolution of a currently manifest period of illness. Few studies have been conducted on the usefulness of these drugs on the long-term longitudinal course of these diseases, such as frequently encountered recurrent relapses into states of agitation, impulsivity, and/or dissatisfaction. As opposed to the clinical experience with traditional antidepressants and neuroleptics, antiepileptics do not induce counter-polar states (depressed patients abruptly turning manic or hypomanic; nor patients currently hypomanic or manic turning abruptly depressed). Many clinicians consider antiepileptic mood stabilizers to be the preferred category of medications for the treatment of such patients. Valproate appears to be a potentially fruitful medication to study in these dual diagnosis patients due to preliminary evidence demonstrating its anticraving efficacy.
Methylphenidate Effect in Children With ADHD Can Be Measured by an Ecologically Valid Continuous Performance Test Embedded in Virtual Reality
Authors: Pollak Yehuda , Shomaly Hanan Barhoum , Weiss Patrice L. , Rizzo Albert A. , Gross-Tsur Varda 
Published: February 2017

ABSTRACTBackground: Continuous performance tasks (CPTs) embedded in a virtual reality (VR) classroom environment have been shown to be a sensitive and user-friendly assessment tool to detect cognitive deficits related to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The aim of the current study was to compare the performance of children with ADHD on a VR-CPT while on and off treatment with methylphenidate (MPH) and to compare the VR-CPT to a cgrrently used CPT, Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA).Methods:Twenty-seven children with ADHD underwent the VR-CPT, the same CPT without VR (no VR-CPT), and theTOVA, 1 hour after the. ingestion of either placebo or 0.3 mg/kg MPH, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover design. Immediately following CPT, subjects described their subjective experiences on the Short Feedback Questionnaire.Results: MPH reduced omission errors to a greater extent on the VR-CPT compared to the no VR-CPT and the TOVA, and decreased other CPT measures on all types of CPT to a similar degree. Children rated the VR-CPT as more enjoyable compared to the other types of CPT.Conclusions: It is concluded that the VR-CPT is a sensitive and user-friendly assessment tool in measuring the response to MPH in children with ADHD.