{"id":1556,"date":"2016-04-30T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2016-04-30T05:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T05:10:38","slug":"interpretive-dance-vs-non-verbal-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/04\/30\/interpretive-dance-vs-non-verbal-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpretive Dance vs. Non-Verbal Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch today, we were talking, and the question came up as to exactly where the boundary was between interpretive dance and non-verbal communication.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interpretive_dance\" target=\"_blank\">Interpretive Dance<\/a> is described as seeking to &#8220;to translate human emotions, conditions, situations or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonverbal_communication\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Verbal Communication<\/a> is seeking &#8220;communication through sending and receiving wordless clues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is the difference?  Is Interpretive dance more intentional?  Is it more specific?  When an actor or performer is acting at their best, is their non-verbal communication any less intentional?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps these are just two sides of the same coin, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TXeOJMMwUqo\" target=\"_blank\">Rap and Spoken Word<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch today, we were talking, and the question came up as to exactly where the boundary was between interpretive dance and non-verbal communication. Interpretive Dance is described as seeking to &#8220;to translate human emotions, conditions, situations or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression&#8221;. Whereas Non-Verbal Communication is seeking &#8220;communication through sending and receiving wordless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/04\/30\/interpretive-dance-vs-non-verbal-communication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interpretive Dance vs. Non-Verbal Communication<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,13,4,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}