Charles A. Washington is a choreographer, performer and musician based in Dresden, Germany. He is the Artistic Director of his project-based dance company called Pinkmetalpetal Productions. At present his primary artistic focus is to try and create spaces and expressions that explore the impossible, the uncertain and the eerie. In 2018 Charles graduated with a MA in choreography, and in 2021 he completed his Miesterklasse research called “We are all a subculture?” at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden


The muscular system is a curving three-dimensional grid of about 700 named muscles, which establish a tensile attachment to the bones of the <a href="https://theframe.pinkbeton.com/g/skeletal-system">skeletal system</a>. The muscles system elastically adapts the tension of the muscles to support and maintain balance and movement of the skeletal structure as it moves through space. Each muscle is a discrete organ constructed of skeletal muscles tissue, blood vessels, tendons and nerves. Muscle tissue also is found inside the heart, digestives organs and blood vessels. The muscle tissue in these organs, move substances throughout the body.&nbsp;

There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body: Visceral, cardiac and skeletal.

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The muscles system is a curving three-dimensional grid of about 700 named muscles that establish a tensile attachment to the bones of the skeletal system. 

 Muscular System 

The visceral muscles are controlled by the unconscious part of the brain and are known as involuntary muscles. Found inside of organs such as the kidneys, intestine and blood vessels, they are the weakest of the three muscle tissue types. The visceral tissue makes the organs contract so that the organs can move substances through the organ. Visceral muscles are known sometimes as smooth muscles because of the smooth appearance they have under a microscope compared to the banded appearance of the cardiac and skeletal muscles.

<a href="https://www.innerbody.com/image_musc01/musc02.html#:~:text=Visceral%20muscle%20tissue%2C%20or%20smooth,skeletal%2C%20smooth%2C%20and%20cardiac.">Visceral muscles</a>

Even though the muscles are involuntary does not mean they can not be felt or be aware of on a cellular level&nbsp;

The visceral muscle are controlled by the unconscious part of the brain and are know as the involuntary muscles.

Visceral Muscle 

Skeletal muscle is the only muscle tissue that is voluntary in the human body. Therefore, it is controlled consciously. Most skeletal muscles are attached to two bones across a joint through tendons. The role of the skeletal tissue is to contract and bring the bones closer together. In contracting either flexor or extender skeletal muscles, the bones of the body move, which allows a person to consciously perform (i.g speaking, walking, swimming or dancing).

To achieve movement in the body, skeletal muscle more often than not work in groups. The muscle that produces any movement in the body is called the agonist or prime mover. An agonist muscle is always paired with an antagonist muscle that produces the opposite movement on the same bone.&nbsp;

In support of the agonist/antagonist&nbsp;pairing, other muscles work to balance the movement of the agonist:

- Synergists are supportive muscles that help to stabilise a movement and reduce any extraneous movement. Synergists muscles are often found in areas near the agonist/antagonist&nbsp;pairing and often connect to the same bones.&nbsp;

Fixator muscles assist in holding the origin stable because skeletal muscles move the insertion closer or further away from the immobile origin.

- Tendons are very tough bands of dense regular connective tissue of strong collagen fibres that firmly attach muscles to bones. In a contraction of skeletal muscles, tendons come under extreme stress. To support this tension, the tendons attach to the periosteum&nbsp;of the bone by collagenous fibres (Sharpey fibres), which continues into the matrix of the bone. Going away from the bone, the tendons weave into a sheath that surrounds each skeletal muscle, the epimysium fascia.

- Skeletal muscle cells (fibres), like other body cells, are soft and fragile. The connective tissue that binds together creates a covering sheath called the epimysium fascia, which supports and protects the cells against contraction forces. The protective sheath also houses pathways for blood vessels and nerves.

Each skeletal muscle fibre is a single cylindrical muscle cell. Within each skeletal muscle, hundreds or even thousands of muscles fibres; bundled together and wrapped in a sheath of connective tissue, the epimysium fascia. Parts of the epimysium project inward to divide the skeletal muscle fibres into compartments. Each of the muscle fibre compartments is called a fasciculus that is surrounded by a layer of connective tissue called the perimysium. Each muscle fibre in each fasciculus is surrounded by a sheath of connective tissue called the endomysium.

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/epimysium">Skeletal muscles</a>

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Varying in size shape and arrangement of fibres, each whole Skeletal muscle is considered an organ of the muscular system. Each organ or muscles consists of skeletal tissue, connective tissue, nerve tissue and blood or vascular tissue.

Skeletal Muscle 

Only found in the heart, the cardiac muscles are responsible for pumping blood through the body. The cardiac muscle tissue is an involuntary muscle, so the unconscious part of the brain controls it. The muscles contract rate is adjusted through hormones and signals from the brain that stimulate the cardiac muscle tissue to contract itself. The cells of the cardiac muscles stimulate each other to contract, and due to this, self-stimulation is considered to be auto-rhythmic or intrinsically controlled.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/cardiac-muscle">Cardiac Muscles</a>

Only found in the heart the, the cardiac muscles are responsible for the pumping of the blood though the body.

Cardiac Muscle 

The muscles system is a curving three-dimensional grid of about 700 named muscles that establish a tensile attachment to the bones of the skeletal system.

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