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movement
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A Theoretical and Practical Approach to “Seeing The Ground of a Movement”
Armin Kappacher sheds some light and shares ideas on what might be meant by "Quality of movement”
From conscious movement to unconscious movement
By Jean Dorff
There is a constant process of motions in our bodies such as breathing, bloodstream, lymph system etcetera. The majority of motions in our body are beyond most people's ability to control. Although we can bring these movements to a level of consciousness, most of us can only control them to some extent, if at all.
Rhythmic quality in dance is more objective than it seems
By Xavier Mora
This article is part of a project that aims at changing this state of affairs. It is a sequel to a more technical paper that makes use of some mathematics.
Natural and Artistic Bodies in Dance
Expressivity in dance art is not primarily of a natural kind. Expressiveness is the communicative act of an artist, and in dance this means that a choreographer articulates her or his dance ideas knitting the strands of the dance medium into the work of art.
Embodiment: The flesh and bones of my body
First of all I want to discuss the concepts of embodiment and disembodiment. More specific, I am interested in the possibilities of the transfer between the real (perceived) body and the virtual body.
The Three Orders of Movement
Delsarte in 1871 moved beyond the static systems of gestural actor training and paid closer attention to the dynamics of motion. Particularly interesting are the three types of motion that he identified
Technique
Alan Shingler talks about how the use of gravity forces for example have to become part of your studies for a better technique