Embodied Movement Practices

      Free flow is sometimes described as an uncontrollable movement. It's fluid and allows the inner emotions to come out.    Question 1    What exercise done in class focused on the development of free flow in movement? ------------------------- Activity 1   A  Bound movement  is a controlled  movement  performed with the extremities close to the body. After watching the video, try bound movement in your own body. Question 2 Reflect on the experience by writing your reaction to it. ------------------------- Bound flow allows for movement in a more controlled way. Bound flow is described as more firm and with boundaries. It's about keeping emotions in and contained Activity 2 Playing with sticks.  We will use sticks to develop a sense of bound are movement that will inform (once sticks are not used), how arm movement can be bound flow. Activity 3 Create an 8 moves phrase in which you move in bound flow. --------...

 I REVIEW  ===============================   Rudolff Laban   Space (level, directions, focus, pathways), breath, kinesphere, cube, 6 components of human movement with their respective elements.   Question 1 How did the exploration of these elements of movement  affect your expressive capacities? *   Extra-Daily Techniques (Eugene Barba)  Balance and Off Balance  Question 2 Why is it important for the performer to engage in the practice of extra-daily techniques? *   Isadora Duncan Inspired Arms   Arm movement with scarfs (Laban's Free Flow)   Solar Plexus   Question 3   Based on your own experience, how would you make sense of the connection between your solar plexus and your arm movement?   ------------------------------    Maria Callas   About the music : Find the justification (depth) of music, (when you want find a gesture, listen to the music with your soul and ears, also the mind, the ...

      CHORAL CORNER   The Frost community participates in its yearly collaborative performance event, Choralcopia !  This year, the groups participating in Choralcopia are Bella Voce, Symphonic Choir, Frost Opera Theater, JV1, BisCaydence, Music Theater Ensemble, as well as the Dance Department.  The directors of these ensembles are Amanda Quist, Corin Overland, Alan Johnson, Kate Reid, Raina Murnak, Carol Kaminsky and Jorge Morejon.   Choralcopia will feature excerpts from El Niño, an opera oratorio by Pulitzer Prize-winner, John Adams.  The Frost Opera Theater will present selections of this work, which are Adams’ interpretation of Christ’s birth, drawing upon a variety of texts by Hispanic women writers dating back to pre-Christian prophets.  The program will be also feature traditional to modern choral repertoire, as well as vocal jazz, opera and dance.     The concert will take...