Reader-built field atlas
Kunqu restraint becomes legible when one sung phrase remains connected to the gaze, hand, sleeve or step that prepares, meets or completes it.
Frame 1
A full-body view that preserves performer spacing and the beginning of the phrase
Frame 2
The gaze, hand, sleeve or step at the phrase's decisive change
What the note must add
Record the work, scene, performer and timestamp when known. Describe only visible movement and audible timing; do not assign a named gesture, role or emotion from a silent still.
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Two open-license performance photographs preserve a close hand-and-gaze relation and a wider contemporary stage arrangement, making scale, spacing and body direction inspectable.
Approved records will connect one phrase to a complete bodily change and, ideally, a second interpretation. A beautiful pose without sound or timing cannot complete the Atlas.