Non-movement

Etymology

“Non”, as a prefix, marks the disagreement of the associated noun. From the Latin movimentum (“movement”), derived from the Latin verb movere (“moves”).

As what the black hole in astronomy is, the non-movement in dance is an essential point to its practice.
Marked by negation, it is devalued and underestimated. His nomination is characterized by its contradiction with the movement. It polarizes something essential that is perceived as a use by default and not by will. By reacting in contradiction, it cannot exist without its opposite. This consequence effect makes it a dependent module. But categorize the non-movement like this, would not give to itself the legitimacy it deserves. Naming it, is a beginning to enhance it and shed light on a concept that deserves to be studied and thought about.





We can make the parallel with silence. It is defined by a state of being silent (as when no one is speaking), an absence of sound, a refusal to speak. His nomination is also defi ned by a contradiction, a lack, an absence. It fi ts perfectly with the use of the word non-movement in its design.
Silence is an essential element in music. It has a musical symbol. The rest is a musical notation sign that indicates the absence of a sound. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value for length, indicating how long the silence should last. It has as many functions as sound—and can be just as expressive. Tiny silences can strengthen or clarify individual notes by setting them in relief (staccato notes, for example). We can separate phrases from each other with silence, so that they make more sense.
Some define silence as power. Being silent allows us to channel our energies. It gives us the clarity we need to calmly face challenges and uncertainty. In the spiritual realm, it is not the literal absence of all noise, but the absence of all human-created stimuli. “Human-created” because most would consider a walk in the woods, in which the sounds of nature are present, to still be a time of “silence.”


As another example of equivalence, the Ma (間, gap, space, pause ) is a Japanese reading of a Sino-Japanese character, which is often used to refer to what is claimed to be a specific Japanese concept of negative space.
In modern interpretations of Japanese arts and culture, ma is taken to refer to an artistic interpretation
of an empty space, often holding as much importance as the rest of an artwork and focusing the viewer on the intention of negative space in an art piece. Though commonly used to refer to literal, visible negative space, ma may also refer to the perception of a space, gap or interval, without necessarily requiring a physical compositional element.
The existence of Ma in an artwork has been interpreted as “an emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled”, and has been described as “the silence between the notes which make the music”.

I used the experience of Wertheimer to visually communicate the performance. It has the function to create a language for the physical movements. The cercles define the level of fullness and emptyness based on the sound.
Non-movement makes his difference in the fact that it is a non-visual movement. It is kineticly translated by slowness, blockages and segmental immobilizations, postures, tensions. It can also be named by non-dance. Non-dance is a choreographic movement within contemporary dance. It began in the 1990, principally in France. Its practitioners see it as a transdisciplinary movement, dispensing with the movement vocabulary of traditional dance to integrate or substitute that of other performing arts (theater, video, music, and plastic arts).
Non-movement allows, like the other concepts discussed, a sublimation of what is. It exists by contradiction and is essential to its opposite. It is a break, a transition or even a lack that breathes new life, that redirects and leads to other ideas. It can be illustrated as a bridge or an escape from a fullness that only asks to be digested, transited. Its value is measured by the power of the movement, its rhythm.