Musicians dancers and athletes spend a tremendous amount of time and effort preparing for
performance in the hope of success aiming for certainty flexibility and expressiveness. Their
use of visualization verbal labels muscle energy and emotion is often based upon intuition
instead of knowledge. Art in Motion intends to fill this vacuum. Effective training and
teaching hinge on motivation self-regulation useful feedback and an understanding of
perception cognition timing motor skill learning and automation. Information about
empirical research concerning mental representations of movement and musical goals can drive
the creative process facilitating the artist at work. Innovative and intentional - purposeful
and meaningful - techniques of practice are developed.
