The Kinesemiotic Body: a pragmatic account of the local discourse organisation of dance

运动符号身体项目汇集了一个跨学科的研究小组，目的是评估通过多通道话语分析获得信息并通过丰富的视频可视化的对舞蹈话语的描述是否可以捕捉到舞蹈通过空间中编排的序列流进行交流的方式，以及这种描述是否可以支持非专家观众的解释过程。我们的理论框架将基于一种名为分段话语表征理论(SDRT)的扩展动态理论和Pi Maiorani创建的舞蹈运动的功能语法，从而利用由拉夫堡大学CALIBRE优先研究领域资助的先前项目所开展的工作，该项目还包括Co-I Zecca和Lock的合作以及与英国国家芭蕾舞团的合作。该项目还将利用不来梅·皮·贝特曼和他的团队以前开展的工作，开发一个基于SDRT的框架，用于分析基于移动的通信。该项目将首先开发一个描述性框架，分析舞蹈如何通过与周围空间的互动而有组织的运动来创造意义；然后将利用该框架来丰富视频材料，捕捉一名英国国家芭蕾舞者表演的舞蹈序列，并使用一套特殊的随笔标签；然后将在非专家观众的样本观众中测试这些视频注释的有效性，以了解这些标签是否支持观众对舞蹈序列的解释，以及如何支持观众对舞蹈序列的解释。开发工作和测试将由拉夫堡和不来梅团队根据一系列具体的工作包在24个月内进行，利用团队成员在不同领域的学科实力以及那些在跨学科合作研究方面的丰富经验。将通过一个网站和在一系列不同学科的国际会议上发表论文，以及在拉夫堡大学伦敦校区举办的有国际特邀演讲者参加的最后讲习班，以及未来的非学术合作伙伴参与，探讨进一步的研究发展和合作，以保持国际传播和外联。我们的长期目标是开发一个跨学科的研究领域，侧重于以动作为基础的交流，可以从舞蹈研究延伸到其他以动作为基础的交流和表演形式，并促进学术界与主办和促进这类学科的机构之间建立伙伴关系。

The Kinesemiotic Body project brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers with the aim of evaluating whether a description of dance discourse informed by multimodal discourse analysis and visualised through enriched videos can capture the way dance communicates through a flow of choreographed sequences in space, and whether this description can support the interpretative process of nonexpert audiences. Our theoretical framework will be based on an extended dynamic theory called segmented discourse representation theory (SDRT) and on the Functional Grammar of Dance Movement created by PI Maiorani, thus leveraging the work carried out on a previous project funded by Loughborough University Calibre programme for priority research areas, which also included the collaboration of Co-I Zecca and Lock and collaboration with the English National Ballet. The project will also leverage on previous work carried out by Bremen PI Bateman and his team on developing a SDRT-based framework for analysing movement-based communication. The project will first develop a descriptive framework for analysing how dance creates meaning through structured movement in interaction with the space that surrounds it; the framework will then be used to enrich video materials capturing dance sequences performed by an English National Ballet dancer with a special set of discursive labels; the effectiveness of these video annotations will then be tested on sample audiences of non-experts to understand whether and how the labels support the audiences' interpretation of the dance sequences. The development work and the testing will be carried out over 24 months by the Loughborough and Bremen teams according to a series of specific workpackages leveraging off the diverse areas of disciplinary strength of the team members as well as those members strong experience in interdisciplinary cooperative research. International dissemination and outreach will be maintained via a website and the publication of papers at a disciplinarily-diverse range of international conferences, together with a final workshop at the London campus of Loughborough University involving international invited speakers and the involvement of prospective non-academic partners to explore further research developments and collaborations. Our long-term goal is to develop an interdisciplinary area of research focusing on movement-based communication that can extend beyond the study of dance to other movement-based forms of communication and performance and inform foster the creation of partnerships between the academia and the institutions that host and promote such disciplines.