The meaning of the body’s movements is elusive in its nature – often only to be understood in relation to its action on or within an environment. Yet, what does an arbitrary bend of the knee have to do with elated joy? What does the torque of the waist mean in relation to anger? More than one could ever imagine … especially in the context of dance. The body’s movements and its emotion-expressing affordances, enable the investigation of nonverbal aspects of the triadic message exchange between the choreographer, the dancer and the audience. To explore the particular intersection of these phenomena: emotion, movement (dance), and communication, this experiment utilized a non-verbal communicative choreographic process to investigate the efficacy of the communication of one’s emotion experience though movement.
This study concluded in a performance called DEIXIS. Please visit the page in under research in the project section.
