o LANCE! 4 A Quick Guide to Motif Notation Description The Method of Recording Movement Concepts oon seh yy The Language of Dance Centre’ ay London Director, Dr Ann Hutchinson Guest THE MOVEMENT ALPHABET BASIC ACTIONS, STAFF, TIMING FLEXION, EXTENSION, ROTATION DIRECTION; DESTINATION, MOTION TRAVELING, PATHS, PATHS FOR GESTURES SPRINGING, SUPPORTING, EQUILIBRIUM PARTS OF THE BODY, RELATIONSHIPSTHE MOVEMENT ALPHABET THE PRIME ACTIONS AND CONCEPTS OF WHICH MOVEMENT IS COMPRISED Presence or Absence of Movement 1 Any action Movement of some kind, a change 2. O © Stiliness Suspension of motion, sustoinment of on = arrested activity An_action may be concerned with or may focus on: Anatomical Possibilities 3 Flexion Contracting, folding, closing in, making smaller, narrowing 4. D4 Extension Lengthening, reaching out, enlarging, opening out, elongating, unfolding 5. Rotation Any revolution, rotation of the body as a whole, or of parts of the body Movement Ideas or Concentrations Traveling Any path (straight, circular, meandering or curving) moving frem one place to another ° I 7. it Direction Movement into different directions such as up, down, to the right, left, forward, backward10. e 44: e Motion 12. 13, Destination 14) 15. Support A Spring Balance Falling Motion Toward Motion Away Destination Arrive at o shape ‘An action ending in a new support, a transference of weight Any aerial step; leaving the ground and returning to it Equilibrium, center of weight vertically over a moving or static support Not in balance; center of weight moves beyond point of support; loss of belance results Approaching a person, abject, direction, or state; o gesture toward oneself Leaving, withdrawing from a person, object, direction, or state; a gesture away from oneself Statement of an ending situation, position or state to be reached 16. ~~) Achieve o relationship