MOTION – E/MOTION (this is never absent) – QUALITY OF ANIMATION (go together)
SPACE – TOPOLOGIES (unimpeded – impeded)
- corners
- open places / enclosures (receptacles)
- ascending / descending
- gaps and openings in barriers (glass transparencies and empty)
- barriers and walls, obstacles
- indicators and signs (function enhancers / assists)
- passages and pathways
- compression points
- contact points
ground (feet, lower extremities)
hand operated
proximity triggers
furniture (posture altering)
- textures (smooth, frictional, soft, hard) & colours (dark, highlighted, muted, attractive, distinctive) (also signitive & triggers)
- movement regulators (control flow, speed & density)
- segregating elements (road & pedestrian walkway)
- sound – distance & proximity, direction & orientation, discourse/discursive, sound is a form of touch and an emotion accompaniment (e/motion) signalling (controlling, allowing & disallowing movement)
How much of these are in a choreography?
Kinetic snapshots can dissect an environment mechanically in respect to all of the above – but nothing is arbitrary, everything is driven by intentionality, purpose, and collective/personal narrative(s)
- how do I connect the arbitrary/independent fragments ‘snapshots’ to narrative?
- AND (considering narratives are generated unconsciously in dream and reverie – i.e. they’re a natural psychological/somatic function) connect narrative to inner landscapes as either its biological/psychic outcome/imperative or the reverse – i.e. inner narratives mirror life narratives
- ultimately, this research is all about me getting to know something my way that other people already know about in other ways
so one thing that is emerging from watching the footage of everyday movement is a language that describes the action and the attitudes/intentions that surround or underpin it – there are presently 5 clear factors that I am observing:
- avoidance
- detours
- making space
- violation & approval of touch (touch is sanctified)
- equilibrium
there is an equilibrium state in the body – and in street movement – in the street, the direct route is the equilibrium state – the detour/deviation is a departure from the equilibrium state – in the body, posture has an equilibrium state – movement that takes the body away from its postural equilibrium is a detour or deviation
o a lot of the business of moving is space-making – avoiding is making space – rather than denying and claiming space, it is about relinquishing space to others – deferring – what makes one person defer to another?
o creating space is self-removal
o proximity to structural supports is a blending with that support – an increase in mass, volume, and security to create greater personal security and stability – there is a blending and an adopting of the qualities and strengths of the support
o built environments are designed to calculate and provide as much (meaning as little) space as is needed for the purposes and function of the location
WHAT MAKES A GROUP RECOGNISABLE AS A GROUP?
o it’s to do with a connection that’s visually set up between the members or people in the group
o so this is a connection that merges their mutual spaces
o holding hands is a physical linking device
o but when there is no physical contact, proximity and a matching of physical momentum – matching feet and a maintained closeness – aided of course by talking to each other, or turning towards each other
o do groups have to detour less because they force single bodies to go round them?
o holding hands is quite frequent in partnerships – is this just an affection connection? Or is pragmatic in busy places because they don’t have to detour as much? People that are connected are impossible to walk between so, as a couple, they don’t have to give up as much space as they may as individuals – but couples and groups don’t have as much momentum in more crowded areas as individuals, so they sacrifice space for speed in some circumstances
o you are aware when you go between people who are in groups that you are breaking or passing through connected space – like they own it – the space between them becomes territorial
o connected space is a definite spatial state
socialised groups are about connected spaces – and connecting the space between people
in a mass activity, like a lot of people going through a small doorway, people blend their individual spaces to make or form a large collectively-connected space in which individuals adjust their momentum to that of the people around them
SPACE – TOPOLOGIES (unimpeded – impeded)
- corners
- open places / enclosures (receptacles)
- ascending / descending
- gaps and openings in barriers (glass transparencies and empty)
- barriers and walls, obstacles
- indicators and signs (function enhancers / assists)
- passages and pathways
- compression points
- contact points
ground (feet, lower extremities)
hand operated
proximity triggers
furniture (posture altering)
- textures (smooth, frictional, soft, hard) & colours (dark, highlighted, muted, attractive, distinctive) (also signitive & triggers)
- movement regulators (control flow, speed & density)
- segregating elements (road & pedestrian walkway)
- sound – distance & proximity, direction & orientation, discourse/discursive, sound is a form of touch and an emotion accompaniment (e/motion) signalling (controlling, allowing & disallowing movement)
How much of these are in a choreography?
Kinetic snapshots can dissect an environment mechanically in respect to all of the above – but nothing is arbitrary, everything is driven by intentionality, purpose, and collective/personal narrative(s)
- how do I connect the arbitrary/independent fragments ‘snapshots’ to narrative?
- AND (considering narratives are generated unconsciously in dream and reverie – i.e. they’re a natural psychological/somatic function) connect narrative to inner landscapes as either its biological/psychic outcome/imperative or the reverse – i.e. inner narratives mirror life narratives
- ultimately, this research is all about me getting to know something my way that other people already know about in other ways
so one thing that is emerging from watching the footage of everyday movement is a language that describes the action and the attitudes/intentions that surround or underpin it – there are presently 5 clear factors that I am observing:
- avoidance
- detours
- making space
- violation & approval of touch (touch is sanctified)
- equilibrium
there is an equilibrium state in the body – and in street movement – in the street, the direct route is the equilibrium state – the detour/deviation is a departure from the equilibrium state – in the body, posture has an equilibrium state – movement that takes the body away from its postural equilibrium is a detour or deviation
o a lot of the business of moving is space-making – avoiding is making space – rather than denying and claiming space, it is about relinquishing space to others – deferring – what makes one person defer to another?
o creating space is self-removal
o proximity to structural supports is a blending with that support – an increase in mass, volume, and security to create greater personal security and stability – there is a blending and an adopting of the qualities and strengths of the support
o built environments are designed to calculate and provide as much (meaning as little) space as is needed for the purposes and function of the location
WHAT MAKES A GROUP RECOGNISABLE AS A GROUP?
o it’s to do with a connection that’s visually set up between the members or people in the group
o so this is a connection that merges their mutual spaces
o holding hands is a physical linking device
o but when there is no physical contact, proximity and a matching of physical momentum – matching feet and a maintained closeness – aided of course by talking to each other, or turning towards each other
o do groups have to detour less because they force single bodies to go round them?
o holding hands is quite frequent in partnerships – is this just an affection connection? Or is pragmatic in busy places because they don’t have to detour as much? People that are connected are impossible to walk between so, as a couple, they don’t have to give up as much space as they may as individuals – but couples and groups don’t have as much momentum in more crowded areas as individuals, so they sacrifice space for speed in some circumstances
o you are aware when you go between people who are in groups that you are breaking or passing through connected space – like they own it – the space between them becomes territorial
o connected space is a definite spatial state
socialised groups are about connected spaces – and connecting the space between people
in a mass activity, like a lot of people going through a small doorway, people blend their individual spaces to make or form a large collectively-connected space in which individuals adjust their momentum to that of the people around them
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