Group Movement Observation

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Movement serves as a way for people to express themselves nonverbally. Much can be said based on how people move, especially how they move in a group. In this video, we observe student dance/movement therapists, and how they moved with one another in a group setting. Movement Data/Sequence of Session At the start of the group session, the students are in a circle and are engaging in a movement that involves reaching and starting to mobilize. There is also movement in the horizontal plane represented. Their movements use a lot of indulging effort qualities. As they reach up with arms, there is Sustainment and Indirectness to their movements; the upper-lower split is seen as they are reaching and stretching with their upper bodies while their …show more content…

Many of the students are stretching out their arms and exploring their kinesphere around them using arc-like movements. Then, through this process, the group members start to reach out to the center of the circle. Their circle formation starts to become smaller, closer to one another. They continue with the reaching out motion which is seen as reaching out to one another to something that is there in the middle of their circle. This is when their movement switches from being Indirect to Direct. As the reaching out continues, there is a moment of group synchrony as most members of the group reach out into the circle and continue to raise their arms above their heads, which demonstrates movement in the vertical plane. They do this a few times before transitioning to making connections with one another. Now, instead of reaching into the circle and up above their heads, they are reaching across the circle and making connections with the other students on the opposite side. As they continue to reach out to the people across the circle for them, people use these connections to switch their place of where they stand in a circle. A few people transition to a new spot in a circle, and with this new placement the circle opens up and people are not so close to one another anymore. Soon, the

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