1st Edition
Kinesemiotics Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space
By Arianna Maiorani
Copyright 2021
102 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
102 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
102 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users.
It begins with a theoretical overview and review of existing literature on the main approaches to movement-based... Read more
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is Kinesemiotics?
Chapter I – How to capture dance discourse?
- Dance notation systems: what they do and do not do.
- Dance as a language: the approach of dance studies, kinesthetics and cognitive sciences to movement-based communication.
- A socio-semiotic approach to dance: the theoretical background of Kinesemiotics.
CHAPTER 2 - Basic concepts in Kinesemiotics
- Kinesemiotics and the human body in space.
- Space as a Semiotic Dimension
- Motivated Movement as Projection and the Idea of Dance Discourse
- The Functional Grammar of Dance model
- Dance as a Mode
- Dance language: system, instantiation and realization
- Dance Discourse and Music
Chapter 3 – An introduction to manual analysis with the FGD.
- Introduction to the analysis
- Body parts movement possibilities in the FGD system
- Comparative examples of manual analysis of moves and sequences.
- Dance discourse and the music score.
Chapter 4 - The path to automated analysis: a series experiments with the English National Ballet
- Why automated analysis? Reasons and prospects for developing digital recognition of dance discourse.
- The experiment protocol
Open-ended conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Arianna Maiorani is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.
