The Point-Move System was created to provide structure and efficiency to the RhythmSpeak Lexicon (RSL). A “Point“ is equal to one second. Each Point has a beginning and an end. Between beginning and end there is a certain number of major movements that can be done. This is done to prevent moves that are too complicated. It is also done to provide an indication of what kind of phrase or term one may be dealing with. For example, terms like ‘the’, ‘is’, ‘a’, etc., are designated as 0-Point Moves.
Here is a breakdown of the Point values and their corresponding time durations:
- 0-Point: Less than 1 second.
- 1-Point: 1 second.
- 2-Point: 2 seconds.
- 3-Point: 3 seconds.
- 4-Point: 4 seconds.
- 5-Point: 5 seconds.
- 6-Point: 6 seconds.
- 7-Point: 7 seconds.
More Point-Moves will be added when they become necessary.
Additional Point-Move Categories
Beyond these basic Point-Moves, the system incorporates additional categories to express more nuanced or complex concepts:
- Emote -Point : These moves represent emotive expressions and can stand as emotive “punctuation”.
- Transition-Point : These moves join the end of one move with the beginning of another. This is so the transition of one move to another is more efficient.
- Step-Point : These moves represent a more choreographed dance routine or set. The Electric Slide would be represented here as a step-point.
- Stance-Point : These moves represent a short, unique motion concluded by a particular way of standing.
- Power-Point : These moves are short and exude, embody, and represent power of a defined type.
- Indicator-Point : This move is an indicative gesture to reveal a change to a particular subset of moves.
- Common Dance-Point : Represents widely recognized dance moves or sequences.
- W3 Expression : These moves are specifically produced for the world wide web, or web 3.0. For Example, dot com, upload, and download are W3 expressions.
Compound Sequences
Compound Sequences are Point-Moves made up of a combination of two or more Point-Moves already established in the official lexicon.
Point-Move Index
The Point-Move Index consist of the point-move’s time value, plus its level of complexity in decimal form. The left side is the (point-move) Time Value, and the right side of the decimal represents the move’s level of complexity. The complexity levels are 1 through 5 with 5 being the highest complexity.
Example:
Time . Level of Complexity
1 . 3
1 point-move, Difficulty 3 out of 5.