ABSTRACT
Motion is the “going,” the departure, the sudden desire to leave and go somewhere. Destination is the arrival. Driving north is the motion, the process of going; arriving in Toronto, for example, is the destination. Depending on the culture, destinational placement of the limbs will gradually come as the child learns to sit cross-legged or to kneel in prayer, palms together, or to assume any of a number of other taught body positions. Familiar everyday destinations also occur in dance. In dance, a destination may be a situation on stage, or a destination for a gesture. Starting positions are mainly destinational because they aim to produce a position. Whatever the speed of a movement to a destination, there is always at least a brief pause once the destination is reached, this pause having the visual effect of informing the observer that this is the intended point of arrival. Destinational movement embodies enjoyment of arrival.
