Susan L. Wiesner

This study builds upon the ARTeFACT Project and combines KWIC methods used in corpus linguistics with the use of motion capture technologies. That is, that the statistical analysis of words, collocations, and concordances equate to body parts (=words) used in movements (=collocations) and dances (=concordances). The subsequent analysis of those statistics generated by movements captured in a 3-D motion capture studio elucidate choreographic preferences in relation to theories of conceptual metaphor argued by Lakoff and Johnson, specifically focusing on CONFLICT.