Monday, May 19, 2014

Wine Makes Drunk the Mind and Body

The effects of wine create a whole new mental state that in turn creates new effects in movement, and artists before have analysed the movings of a drunken person and stylised it into choreography. Lloyd Newson's dance video about two drunken men brawling in a bar employed such choreography, to make the dance look both everyday and artful.

          The effects of the mental state upon the dancing of the body are numerous and in the same way that artists before have experimented with the drunken state, I may like to try with other burdens of our mind.

          The mentality of a free person is different to that of a freed one, or an enslaved one, and their movement also.
The mentality and movements of a shy person differ to those of an outgoing person.
The mentality and therefore movements are different in a drunk person compared to a sober person.
The mentality of someone with a mental disorder would be different from someone without, and would their movement patterns differ also, if the mind governs the body?
The mentality of someone suffering from depression is certainly different from someone whose mind is not burdened; how does the movement of someone suffering from depression differ from somebody not?

          Within these varied mental states, some are attributed to physical imbalances or influences and some are purely emotional.

          They say that pain is in the mind, and while it affects the body, it is felt by the mind, and therefore defined by the mind; its absence would be attributed to a fault in the brain, and yet the presence of pain would be significantly marked and apparent in the movement patterns of the affected person; shaking or limping, and constrained by pain felt when the mover pushed the boundaries of their capabilities.

          Then again, physical sensations, that are only physical due to their manifestation in the mind, affect the mind and consequently affect the body's movement. Itches are such an example (http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/courses/mind/notes/mentalstates.html; URL:  http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu 
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... how would the presence of an itch dictate the movement in the body? How much control does the mind have over the way we move?

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