Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space
- Author: Maiorani, Arianna
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Contents
- 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