Meaning in Motion
Author | : Jane Desmond |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780822319429 |
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Author | : Jane Desmond |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780822319429 |
On dance and culture
Author | : Nino M. Zchomelidse |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9780691151939 |
The nine essays collected in this volume are based on the papers presented at the Forty-second International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2007.
Author | : Barbara Tversky |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-05-21 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0465093078 |
An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the foundation of thought When we try to think about how we think, we can't help but think of words. Indeed, some have called language the stuff of thought. But pictures are remembered far better than words, and describing faces, scenes, and events defies words. Anytime you take a shortcut or play chess or basketball or rearrange your furniture in your mind, you've done something remarkable: abstract thinking without words. In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas. Spatial thinking even underlies the structure and meaning of language: why we say we push ideas forward or tear them apart, why we're feeling up or have grown far apart. Like Thinking, Fast and Slow before it, Mind in Motion gives us a new way to think about how--and where--thinking takes place.
Author | : Carol-Lynne Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-12 |
Genre | : Choreographers |
ISBN | : 9780990968009 |
Author | : Nicolas Salazar Sutil |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-05-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262028883 |
An examination of the ways human movement can be represented as a formal language and how this language can be mediated technologically. In Motion and Representation, Nicolás Salazar Sutil considers the representation of human motion through languages of movement and technological mediation. He argues that technology transforms the representation of movement and that representation in turn transforms the way we move and what we understand to be movement. Humans communicate through movement, physically and mentally. To record and capture integrated movement (both bodily and mental), by means of formal language and technological media, produces a material record and cultural expression of our evolving kinetic minds and identities. Salazar Sutil considers three forms of movement inscription: a written record (notation), a visual record (animation), and a computational record (motion capture). He focuses on what he calls kinetic formalism—formalized movement in such pursuits as dance, sports, live animation, and kinetic art, as well as abstract definitions of movement in mathematics and computer science. He explores the representation of kinetic space and spatiotemporality; the representation of mental plans of movement; movement notation, including stave notation (Labanotation) and such contemporary forms of notation as Choreographic Language Agent; and the impact of digital technology on contemporary representations of movement—in particular motion capture technology and Internet transfer protocols. Motion and Representation offers a unique cultural theory of movement and of the ever-changing ways of representing movement.
Author | : Susan Leigh Foster |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995-05-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780253116505 |
"... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." -- Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." -- Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." -- Dance Chronicle "... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.
Author | : Carol-Lynne Moore |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis US |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9782881242502 |
Combines text, videotaped exercises and photographs to provide readers with the means to improve their perceptual ability and powers of observation of human life through the medium of movement.
Author | : Erin Stutland |
Publisher | : Hay House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1401955282 |
Mind-body wellness and fitness expert combines mantra, self-reflection, and movement into an accessible 14-day routine for manifesting your best self. Holistic wellness and fitness expert Erin Stutland harnesses all the body's mental, physical, and spiritual energy in her tri-fold approach to creating change. When you move your body while repeating mantras--speaking your desires aloud--manifesting is no longer a purely intellectual exercise or an occasional craft project. Instead, you are expressing your passion through your voice and your body, putting every ounce of your energy in service of what you want. Each chapter breaks down one mantra to use to focus on a key step to achieving your best self, including unearthing your desires, releasing resistance, and taking inspired action. Alongside each mantra, Stutland provides stories from her own life and those of her clients, a meditation or visualization, a journaling exercise, and an easy movement to accompany the mantra to help enhance its resonant power. And to put it all together, you are provided with a 14-day plan so you can design the life you want, infusing the power of movement, mantra, and self-reflection.
Author | : Steve Larson |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0253005493 |
Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence—as well as his skill as a jazz pianist—to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarifying the roles of analogy, metaphor, grouping, pattern, hierarchy, and emergence in the explanation of musical meaning, Larson explained how listeners hear tonal music through the analogues of physical gravity, magnetism, and inertia. His theory of melodic expectation goes beyond prior theories in predicting complete melodic patterns. Larson elegantly demonstrated how rhythm and meter arise from, and are given meaning by, these same musical forces.
Author | : Misty Copeland |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-03-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476737983 |
Profiles the life and career of the professional ballerina, covering from when she began dance classes at age thirteen in an after-school community center through becoming the only African American soloist dancing with the American Ballet Theatre.