Kinematics : the elements of dance

• Main Author: Chew, Dion Tzi Ern
• Other Authors: Ng Ee Ching Candice
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Visual arts
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149424
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Kinematics is an experimental guide to alternative ways of looking at the elements of dance, reimagining how dancers can further develop and explore their personal styles and attitudes towards the practice. Traditionally, dances across cultures often require mimicking bodies of movements to learn; in this book, however, the technicalities and conceptual ways of moving the body are presented through various forms of visual communication, rethinking the ways in which dance can be presented without an actual body, or real-time movement. Due to the lack of an actual moving body, the elements of dance are left ambiguous, leaving dancers to their own interpretations and outcomes instead of copying another person’s style of movement, in hopes of encouraging spontaneity and imagination in one’s explorations with movement. At the same time, dancers are encouraged to find their own ways of exploring the elements of dance, whether it is through the forms of visual art, or by other means.