The Gottman Institute indicates that when partners do small,
everyday gestures of kindness for each other and engage with positive intention and presence, they «grow their emotional bank account,» which acts as a source of stability and resiliency that protects them from the negative effects of conflict and stress (Lisitsa, 2013).
Obviously, we do not go saluted as SS guards, but you'd be surprised at
how everyday gestures Palm may have almost the same negative consequences.
The choreography draws
from everyday gestures, slapstick physical humor, sports culture, Jaeger's sculptures, and the architecture of Jack Hanley Gallery to compose seven distinct movement sequences; each, through repetition, duration, and the inevitable breakdown of physical stamina, plays with contemporary notions of attention, the spectacle, and anticipation.
Sullivan's anxiety - inducing films and live performances reveal the degree to
which everyday gestures and emotional states are scripted and performed, probing the border between innate and learned behavior.
With reference to the cult cultural theorist Aby Warburg, Millar explores
how everyday gesture is historicised and what that might mean for cultural and social identity over time.
In a highly metaphorical action, Paci encounters more than 700 people, turning
an everyday gesture into a symbolic ritual.
Already at the beginning of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer surprised the New York art and dance scene with choreographies in which she succeeded impressively in developing a completely new fascinating language characterized not least of all by the introduction of
everyday gestures and actions into modern dance.
Blondell Cummings» video installation depicts the dancer and activist miming, transforming her body through
the everyday gestures associated with the pink collar economy in which many Black women are economically compelled to work.
People and dogs were held and seized in
their everyday gestures, a whole city snuffed out as it went about its business.»
A missed birthday, anniversary, or a hasty, thoughtless gift would be disastrous — so would the absence of
everyday gestures.
At the end of the day, it's
the everyday gestures of love that count.