Mariana Maduell is a linguist and a Spanish dance professional currently away from her base in Honolulu, Hawaii, collaborating on research concerned with coordination and synchronisation of rhythm at the Sensory Motor Neuroscience group at the University of Birmingham (UK). She has recently completed an MBA at University College Northampton (UK).

Dr. Maduell's linguistic work is centered on language use in the performing arts (especially flamenco) and computational lexicography. Her MBA dissertation work dealt with Operations Research and large ballet companies, with emphasis on Senior Management and modelling considerations. Her Spanish dance work is focused on flamenco ensemble work at the general level and more specifically on flamenco technique, styling, and choreography. She also choreographs contemporary Spanish classical dance and works with musicians who wish to adapt solo material to accompaniment.

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Linguistics background

Flamenco and other dance background

Doctoral dissertation abstract: On-stage calls: An ethnolinguistic analysis of spoken language in professional flamenco performance

MBA dissertation summary: Operations Research goes to the ballet: Senior Management and modelling considerations in a performing arts industry

Online copy of Working Paper: 'Cues' in flamenco performance: Exposing a hidden speech genre

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E-mail to Mariana Maduell

Contact information:
E-mail: maduell@hawaii.edu, m.maduell@bham.ac.uk

Dr. M. Maduell
Behavioural Brain Sciences Centre
School of Psychology
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT
U.K.
(07940)53-2002 (phone)
(dial prefix is (0-11-44-7940) from the U.S.)

Last update: 6/2002