Aesthetic Expression
By Genevieve Mount

People can aesthetically express themselves in many different ways.  Most of these links will  gave an idea of how people express themselves through physical movement.  There are many other ways of expression, art being one major avenue, and another through discussion – philosophy and communication.  The following links will be from offering ideas for teaching the aesthetics (questions, worksheets), to more specific links on the aesthetics as a whole, to the role of aesthetics and expression in physical movement.

http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/aoi/html/motif5.html
How African dance and physical movement expresses and transports the power of life into rhythm and patterns of human movement.

Dance Art   (http://www.salc.wsu.edu/classes/DomainOfTheArts/students/mbrown/dance)
How dance is an aesthetic event and how to understand movement so one can qualify feelings, thoughts and emotions.

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~peter/aikido/training
Modern Japanese martial art as a way of personal growth with movement being a harmonious inner power connecting one with other people and nature.

http://www.jahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Philosophy/Aesthetics/
Articles about aesthetics, information about aesthetic events worldwide, links to other aesthetics – related resources on the Internet, and an aesthetic L-email discussion list.

 http://www.edu.gov.nt.ca/curriculum/wellness/drafts/Fitness2.htm
This is a listing of aesthetic philosophical and fine arts resources.

 http://www.edu.gov.nt.ca/curriculum/wellness/drafts/Fitness2.htm
This link offers sources to answer questions about using different forms of movement as a means of aesthetic expression, as well as understanding the spiritual, technological, problem solving, personal development and communication in aesthetic expression.

Course Materials in Philosophy  (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~phlos-ad/pedagogy.html#aesthetics)
This is information for teachers teaching about aesthetics – philosophy syllabi on the Web and handouts, assignments, and other course material.

NORTH TEXAS INSTITUTE for EDUCATORS on the VISUAL ARTS: Aesthetics  (http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/aes/aes2.htm)
This contains exercises for students about aesthetic activities.

Yucky Gross & Cool Body  (http://www.yucky.com/yucky/body)
These are questions and answers about non-aesthetic and non-expressive elements of humans.
 

Return to class readings page:  Kinesiology 493: Philosophy of Kinesiology