Methodologies In the Study of Dance Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...“acts and system,” structural linguistics and Chomskyan transformational and generative linguistics. These methods and the ideas on which they are based are quite distinct from Ray Birdwhistell 's kinesics, which studies “body motion as related to the nonverbal aspects of interpersonal communication,” and Edward T. Hall's proxemics, which deals with spatial relationships between people. To understand the usefulness of employing linguistic analogies in the study of dance, one should have familiarity with the linguistic methodologies from which the analogies...
Social Dance Reference library
The International Encyclopedia of Dance
...assert their visibility and power against the threat of machines and factories, clock time and workday schedules, and bureaucratic power structures and loss of autonomy. Associated with this tumultuous period were changes in cultural values that affected expressive forms of interpersonal communication and social rituals reflecting deep social and family relationships. Among the changes in expressive forms were those in dancing. Dance theorists like Jean-Georges Noverre ( 1727–1807 ) and later Carlo Blasis ( 1803–1878 ) had already drawn attention to the...
