http://purplemotes.net/2006/10/09/mirrors-and-making-sense-of-another-like-oneself/ a journal of whimsy and hope Mon, 07 May 2012 22:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://purplemotes.net/2006/10/09/mirrors-and-making-sense-of-another-like-oneself/#comment-880 purple motes » fullness of movement Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:06:30 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2006/10/09/mirrors-and-making-sense-of-another-like-oneself/#comment-880 [...] The ten-dancer cast moved in front of three large video screens onto which water-scapes were projected through the dance space.  The video thus played both on the dancers' bodies and on the screens.   The video images of swirling water, crashing waves, and white foam, although having fractal complexity, were astonishingly plain compared to the dancers' movements.  The dancers mixed completely fluid, buoyant movement with percussive pulses, now jarring their stiff forms, now propagating outward through their bodies.   They made linear gestures that ended in taut muscles, and ornate, endlessly curving gestures.  A particularly beautiful quality was energy projected outward, then dissipated in relaxing fingers and wrists.  Video of moving water was much less intricately engaging than this human choreography.    The human body can make a richer sense of human movement than movement of non-human nature.  The advantage of the human body for a human audience is  simply a matter of common medium. [...] [...] The ten-dancer cast moved in front of three large video screens onto which water-scapes were projected through the dance space.  The video thus played both on the dancers’ bodies and on the screens.   The video images of swirling water, crashing waves, and white foam, although having fractal complexity, were astonishingly plain compared to the dancers’ movements.  The dancers mixed completely fluid, buoyant movement with percussive pulses, now jarring their stiff forms, now propagating outward through their bodies.   They made linear gestures that ended in taut muscles, and ornate, endlessly curving gestures.  A particularly beautiful quality was energy projected outward, then dissipated in relaxing fingers and wrists.  Video of moving water was much less intricately engaging than this human choreography.    The human body can make a richer sense of human movement than movement of non-human nature.  The advantage of the human body for a human audience is  simply a matter of common medium. [...]

]]> http://purplemotes.net/2006/10/09/mirrors-and-making-sense-of-another-like-oneself/#comment-879 purple motes » familiarity is a resource for making sense of presence Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:08:04 +0000 http://purplemotes.net/2006/10/09/mirrors-and-making-sense-of-another-like-oneself/#comment-879 [...] of another person. Premotor neurons that perform such sub-conscious processing have been called mirror neurons. Mu activity, and by implication mirror neuron activity, depends on familiarity with the other [...] [...] of another person. Premotor neurons that perform such sub-conscious processing have been called mirror neurons. Mu activity, and by implication mirror neuron activity, depends on familiarity with the other [...]

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