Category: gestures...

professional actors and dancers have known since antiquity that body gestures may also generate a vocabulary of communication more or less unique to each culture
some scholars have tried to develop a vocabulary of body language, called kinesics
Francois Delsarte, a 19th century teacher of pantomime and gymnastics, described the ingenious and complex language of face and body positions for theatrical purposes
When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. (Alain)
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. (H. Matisse)
To the sound itself...the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe. (C. Andreae)
gestures of peace and nonviolence
the namaste mudra, a gesture of peace and respect and honor to the light within you