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Gesture patterns

Another fascinating aspect of Motionary performances is the fact that although I recorded all performances in separate shoots, some performers used exactly the same gestures and moves to express certain words. For example, three different groups of people, from different cultural backgrounds and different schools used the same context of a person marching and an "imitator" following him. I was surprised because I would think of a dozen of other ways to represent the "imitator" before I would think about walking, but maybe it is just me. I think it could be revealing to research this matter further and see why people use identical gestures to interpret the same word. (Example above shows gesture patterns in improvisation of "abulia")