From Musical Experience to Personality Transformation: The Practice of Musical Movement

This article explores the mechanisms of musical experience and how they are revealed in the practice of plastic improvisation in response to music. Musical movement creates conditions that activate and organize the processes of the emotional perception and experiencing of music in an outwardly expressed motoric form. Musical motor activity not only reflects but also transforms a person’s life experience and, thereby, initiates the complex work of becoming aware of, and reinterpreting, one’s values and motives and relating them to one’s capabilities and to the restructuring of one’s self-image on a mental and corporal level.