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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: January 26, 2012

By Brenton On January 26, 2012 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Lisa Wymore, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: What is it possible to detect using motion capture technology? What limits are imposed by the technology? What limits are imposed by the LMA system itself? As noted before, it is difficult to capture Weight Effort and Space [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: December 1, 2011

By Brenton On December 1, 2011 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: There is a desire among motion capture researchers to validate the Laban Efforts using their technology. However, this has proved difficult. Even among human observers, the only way to get inter-observer reliability with Efforts is for the observers to have [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: November 17, 2011

By Brenton On November 17, 2011 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Lisa Wymore, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: In his 2011 ICKL paper, Raphaƫl Cottin proposes changing the Shape Action Stroke from two parallel diagonal lines to a single diagonal line with a filled-in dot at its lower end. By doing so, he attempts to address [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: October 13, 2011

By Brenton On October 13, 2011 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: Laban’s “Dynamosphere” is a visual representation of the various flavors of Action Drive and their relationships. It maps each variation to a location in space, based on its component Efforts. Collectively, they form the vertices of a cube. It has [...]
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Berkeley Cafe Colloq: September 29, 2011

By Brenton On September 29, 2011 · Add Comment · In Laban
(An informal monthly-ish gathering focused on Laban Movement Analysis. Attending: Peggy Hackney, Brenton Cheng.) Highlights: For non-stretchable symbols, how should one indicate that the action continues for some length of time? In Charlotte Wile’s “Moving About”, a wavy line indicates “continue freely in the previously stated manner”, but this is then clarified as being a [...]
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