Body Movement and Expression in Space: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted on Sep 1, 2024 in Physical Education

Antagonism in Body-Space

Area offers resistance to the moving body. This antagonism, through its various gradations, is the basis for all body work, both from the standpoint of expressive movement and muscle training. The two-pronged approach to the relationship between space and body are:

  1. Space as a moldable material that shapes the body.
  2. The variable volume of the body being transformed by an active space of different textures, consistencies, flexibility, etc.

Tone and Mental Attitude in Positions

The body’s posture is almost always the determinant of a mental attitude. The body is constantly transmitting messages.

First, feel the body from within, from the physical search for the links with the underlying emotional attitude.

Relationship Between Muscle Tension and Mental Attitudes

The most important aspect of movement, in order for it to become expressive gesture, is its charge, its intentionality, its transmission of sensations. This is when movement becomes significant gesture. A sequence of movements organized with a specific intent is a phrase of movement. It is a sequence of gestures that seek internal coherence to express something.

Components of the Act

  • Intensity: Depends on the antagonistic muscle and the dynamic continuity of the pulse.
  • Space: Use of space, direction, shape, and range of motion.
  • Duration: The time element.
  • Intention: Emotional liability arising from the interaction of the elements.

A composition consisting of several kinds of motion can be a:

  • “Monologue”: If you use the phrases of movement within a single person.
  • “Dialogue”: If you use the phrases of movement between two people.
  • “Conversation”: If you use the phrases of movement between several people, with different voices.

Conceptual Field of Expression

Expression is the act of squeezing, expressing, and externalizing something hidden within. Expression is a characteristic of human potential whose effect is reflected in outward expression, allowing oneself to be known.

Expression as a Symbol of Humanity

Expression is the act of being. In the merely animal world, the whole body becomes a sign of what the animal is experiencing. For Lain Entralgo (1989), human expression differs from animal expression in three essential ways:

  1. Humans can speak voluntarily and modulate the appearance of their expression.
  2. Humanity is not only free to express itself, but can use any part of the body to do so.
  3. In addition to expressing through signs, humans can express themselves through symbols.

Qualities of Movement

The four factors that act on motion are:

Gravity

Gravity can be used as an expressive element. There are two basic possibilities of working with gravity:

  1. In favor of the gravitational force: This is activated when our efforts work with gravity, and passive when we relax and allow gravity to act on our bodies.
  2. Contrary to gravity: This is activated when our efforts work against the force of gravity.

Four Types of Qualities of Movement Related to Gravity

  • Heavy and soft: In favor of gravity, without antagonism.
  • Heavy and strong: In favor of gravity, with antagonism.
  • Lightweight and strong: Against gravity.
  • Lightweight and soft: Against gravity.

Space

  • Direct: Movement that has a single address in space.
  • Indirect: Movement that is constantly changing direction.

The Degree of Extension in Movement

  • Strait: Movement that is taking place in a more intimate space, closer to our center, our skin.
  • Huge: Movement that comes out, using large spatial trajectories.

Time

  • Sustained movement: Long, slow, continuous.
  • Sudden or impulsive movement: Short, fast.

Flow of Movement

. We know that the movements have a tour inside the body, this flow can be driven movement can be interrupted at any when they used or free can not be stopped at any point in the appeal.
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