🩰 The Kinesemiotic Body! 🩰

The Kinesemiotic Body project is a study funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), in partnership with the English National Ballet (ENB). With Arianna, Chun, Dayana, John and Russell we want to understand how dance communicates through movement and choreographed sequences in space. To do this, we're using a theory called "segmented discourse representation theory" and the "Functional Grammar of Dance Movement" created by Arianna. 

The ultimate - and ambitious! - goal is to create a new area of study that focuses on how movement can be used to communicate, not just in dance but in other performance arts as well, and to bring together researchers and organizations that are interested in this field. We call it "Kinesemiotics", from the Greek κινεῖν (kinein, "to move") and σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikos, "observant of signs").

Junour Souza and Rebecca Blenkinsop

We are now organising a symposium to showcase our activities and our recent findings.

If you are in London this Thursday/Friday, come and see for yourself. This is the amazing programme.  

Thursday, 2^nd February 2023

12:00-13:00	Registration and Lunch
13:00-13:15	Welcome speech/event opening
13:15-13:50	Arianna Maiorani (Loughborough University) John Bateman (University of Bremen) Project presentation 1: Project Introduction, Theoretical Framework, and Goals
13:50-14:25	Pritty Patel-Grosz (University of Oslo) Invited talk: Reference Tracking in Narrative Dance (remotely via Teams)
14:25-15:00	Arianna Maiorani, Chun Liu (Loughborough University) Project presentation 2: The Functional Grammar of Dance applied to ELAN annotation: meaning beyond the naked eye
15:00-15:35	Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds) Invited talk: To the verbal and beyond. Film multimodality meets creative subtitling
15:35-16:05	Coffee/tea break
16:05-16:40	Massimiliano Zecca, Russell Lock (Loughborough University) Project presentation 3: Motion capture and related technology
16:40-17:10	Rebekah Wegener (University of Salzburg) Invited talk: Prominence and salience in multimodal interaction

Friday, 3^rd February 2023

09:30-10:35	John Bateman, Dayana Markhabayeva (University of Bremen) Project presentation 4: The perception of the structural organisation of ballet: first experimental results
10:35-11:10	Guido Orgs (Goldsmiths, University of London) Invited talk: The neurocognition of liveness
11:10-11:35	Arianna Maiorani, Massimiliano Zecca, Russell Lock (Loughborough University) Project presentation 5: Testing the Kinesemiotic Body: our experiments
11:35-12:00	Coffee/tea break
12:00-12:35	Bettina Bläsing (TU Dortmund University) Invited talk: Concepts of body and movement in dancers with different bodily conditions - effects of inclusive dance experiences
12:35-13:10	Optional: Forward looking sessions on 1) suggesting further steps for our own experiments, and 2) inviting attendees to think how we could combine our work
13:10-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:35	Fleur Derbyshire-Fox, Patrick Harrison (English National Ballet) Invited talk on research partnerships
14:35-16:50	Optional: Brain storming sessions on possible collaborative research and grant applications
16:50-17:00	Symposium closing