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Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

Maiorani, Arianna

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

DanceGeneral ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 0367272474
ISBN13: 9780367272470
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2020
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 communication, specifically dance, which underpin kinesemiotics as an area of study. It reaffirms previous work which established dance as a form of embodied communication in that it encompasses a wide range of semiotic styles and forms shared by communities of speakers. In collaboration with the English National Ballet, Maiorani employs the genre of ballet as a means through which to understand and analyse some of the key concepts of kinesemiotics, mainly that of space as a semiotic dimension and motivated movement, or movement with meaning. Supported by automated movement recognition tools from the fields of bio-robotics engineering and computer science, Maiorani argues for ballet's capacity, when movements are projected into meaningful space, to extend beyond sequences of physical movements to become a meaning making practice.

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