• Title Making Meaning with Machines: Somatic Strategies, Choreographic Technologies, and Notational Abstractions through a Laban/Bartenieff Lens
• Author(s) Amy LaViers and Catherine Maguire
• Publisher: The MIT Press (October 10, 2023); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Hardcover/Paperback 418 pages
• eBook PDF and PDF Files
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262546124
• ISBN-13: 978-026254612
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Book Description

A rigorous primer in movement studies for designers, engineers, and scientists that draws on the fields of dance and robotics.

This book is a much-needed primer for observing, describing, and creating a wide array of movement patterns, which ultimately can help facilitate broader and better design choices for roboticists, technologists, and designers.

• Amy LaViers works at the intersection of robotics and dance.
• Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator and dance artist. She has been teaching in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System for over 40 years and works as a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of movement analysts working together to promote movement studies globally.

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