Diversifying locomotive choices when using the performance space


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 Space and Relationship

 The kinesphere is also the container of a cube (containing all diagonal directions and dimensions) and of an icosahedron made by three bi-dimensional planes: it contains angular geometry inside a round geometry.

 Question 1

Explain in your own words the meaning of the kinesphere within the Laban's cube?

 

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Diversifying locomotive choices when using the performance space (The Kinesphere and Laban's Cube)

Activity 1

Based on their exploration of movement within the cube, students work on adding one more phrase of 8 movements to their previous 8 movements using emotions as reference. 

To their now 2 phrases, students add more specific exploration of Laban's 4 components of human movement listed bellow.

 



Laban’s Four Components of Human Movement with their Respective Elements:
•Direction – direct/indirect
•Weight – heavy/light
•Speed – quick/sustained
•Flow – bound / free


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Closing 

Review your phrases.

Students share their work with the class after adding to their choreographic structure (of two movement phrases) their learned song, poem, prose or onomatopoeic sounds.

Comments

  1. Caroline M.October 4, 2021 at 9:43 AM

    Today’s lesson was hard but very funny. I just discovery that my body can conduct my voice too, as the professor said: I have to trust in the process. At the beginning I didn’t understand, I thought that my voice is the one that has to conduct my movements, but it wasn’t the idea. The voice can not be the most important, it is very important the movements too. Give each 8 movements created the same importance as the voice and lyrics. It was hard to have coordination between the movements and the lyrics, because sometimes I forgot the movements or the lyrics. It’ was a little bit easier when we had to choose just a few works, those words engached me with the movements becase they came from the bottom of my heart and they were words of deep value for me. About the soft and heavy movements, maybe because I’m woman it was very difficult for me try to do heavy movements, I felt that my body couldn’t handle them very well. Maybe stereotype? Being a woman means to be delicate, soft, not too strong physically speaking? Well, those are things that I have to work on and develop to become a better performance.

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