Movement Analysis.
In: TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), Jg. 32 (1988-12-01), Heft 4, S. 40-52
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This article discusses the applicability of movement analysis in performance arts. Movement analysis is by no means new. It goes back at least to Charles Darwin and Francois Delsarte. Both men were fascinated by the relationship between movement and meaning, the former in the realm of natural history and the latter in the world of oratory. Later, in the 1940s, psychologist Wilhelm Reich and anthropologist David Efron took up the issue in their respective disciplines. However, not until the 1960s and 1970s did the field accumulate the force of a movement movement. Nonverbal communication research was not an unlikely compatriate to the other movements of the era: social activism, encounter groups, the drug culture, and avant-garde performance. The emphasis was on process, and movement was process par excellence. Thus, the study of movement flourished during the late 1960s and 1970s because of a decisive shift in paradigms from text to performance, from speech to gesture, from passive reception to active perception and participation. Yet, the 1980s have not sustained the momentum of the movement movement. Performance studies theory and methodology in the era is dominated by poststructuralist literary theory.
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Movement Analysis.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Daly, Ann |
Zeitschrift: | TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), Jg. 32 (1988-12-01), Heft 4, S. 40-52 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1988 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1054-2043 (print) |
DOI: | 10.2307/1145888 |
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