In message <p05100304b8d7d9c860e2@[192.168.2.30]>, Armando Menicacci <armando@noos.fr> writes No please don't apologise, I was merely offering the basic definition of what dancers and choreographers would call a gesture. Maybe my comment at the end of the post gave a different energy to my intention. although I have replied to imageimage in a reciprocal manner. Kema >>Something that any intermediate dance student would know. >I'm really sorry Kema, I must apologize: my English must be really >awful if you understood this from my proposal. English is not my first >language (it isn't even my second), so I might have expressed in an >ambiguous way As a matter of fact, I didn't say at all what you >mention. Maybe I can take some more time to go deeper into >biomechanics, but, to be short, I haven't said that a movement has no >"transference of weight" simply because there is a displacement of the >center of gravity in almost every human movement even if there is no >"weight transference". A human being is always making gestures since >all the segments translations are related to intentions and intentions >are modulating the gamma nervous system. What I wanted to say is that >in every gesture there is a movement (segment displacement) PLUS >something else that is related to what we call "tonic function" or that >physiology calls A.P.A or Anticipatory Postural Adaptation (My >translation of "Adaptation Posturale Anticipatoire must be very bad, >but I only know some physiology in Italian and French. My medical >english is pretty poor. > >I apologize again. Please feel free to mail again if something is not >clear in my proposal > >Best regards > >>to keep it simple and straightforward : >> >>In terms of dance, not a dictionary definition, >> >> a gesture is a movement that has no transference of weight i.e. a >>hand raised, a nod of the head basically a movement that does not >>travel. >>Something that any intermediate dance student would know. >> >>Kema >> >>> >>>First of all let me repeat that for me there is a difference between movement >>>and gesture that is essential. To b really short a movement is the change of >>>spatial position of a joint in relation to a reference system (e.g. 3D >>>coordinates). On the other side all the definitions of gesture are >>>leading to the >>>question of meaning. A gesture, for most of the dictionaries I've seen is a >>>movement that has a particular meaning for an ethnic group. >>>For example there are movements in a mechanical watch or in a locomotive, >>>but there is no gesture. >> >>-- >>Kema T. Ekpei Esq. >> >>kema@kema.org.uk >>www.kema.org.uk > > -- Kema T. Ekpei Esq. kema@kema.org.uk www.kema.org.uk The information contained in this e-mail message is usually intended only for the person it is sent to. This message may be an extraordinarily detailed and serious document or it could just be me having a laugh. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient think yourself honoured to have received correspondence from me in error. After you have read the details of this email you may delete it at your whim, if you like.
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