Resumen de Takedinorum language: a collection of videos
Takedinorum is a gesture-syllable language that can be used as a tool for learning body percussion. It is based on the use of voice to guide movement and body percussion gestures. It is a kind of rhythm solmization system in which syllables are associated with body percussion gestures. This language grows from its simplest elements: gesture-syllables. Words, phrases and choreographies can be built with them. Starting with the most basic motion and using voice as a guide, these increasingly complex constructions evolve towards dance: • Each gesture-syllable is built using one of the five Spanish vowels and some consonants. • Each one represents a part of the body or a kind of gesture. • A Takedinorum word is a simple combination of syllables which involves a combination of body percussion gestures and body movements. The more words you memorize with your body, the greater the size of your Takedinorum vocabulary. • A phrase is a combination of words with a musical sense. • A choreography, the most complex structure in Takedinorum language, consist of a combination of phrases. In order to disseminate Takedinorum through the educational community and as a result of the systematic and progressive implementation of these concepts, a collection of 21 tutorial videos with supporting material has been developed. Here the author presents this didactic material for use in the classroom. This work has been supported by the Consellería de Educación of the Xunta de Galicia, during a training leave. It is freely available under Creative Commons AttributionShare Alike 3.0 Licence (CC BY-SA 3.0)
