Embodied Movement Practices

 I     Question 1   Where is movement performed ? Why?     II   Elements of Space   Place:   self - space/general space (also called personal / shared)   Size:   big/small, near/ far   Level:    high , middle, low   Direction:   forward, backward, right, left, up, down, diagonal   Pathway:   curved, straight, zig zag   Focus:   single focus or multi focus     Link:  The Elements of Dance: Dance Concepts     Question 2 How would used the elements of space described above to describe your solo piece?       III Activity 1 After learning all the elements of space, create an 8 movements phrase in which you use all the elements. Record it and post it on Discussion Board.      I V   System of Wants      What is it that I want when I say .....  Actors neve...

  I   CONCEPTS  Context, Text, and Subtext Constructure, Structure, Substructure   Context Often when we think of context, we think of things like the date a work was published, who it was written by, or the climate of the time. But context is very important within your fictive universe as well. Context in this sense is all the grounding and guiding information that the audience needs, such as who the characters are, where they are, what time of day it is, etc. Context can also be any other additional information the audience needs to interpret and accurately understand what is happening in the story.   Question 1 How can the artist create context at a personal level when working on a character?   Text Text is the easiest one of the three to understand, because it is what we often focus on the most. The text is the written part of the story, what happens and what is stated on the page. It is everything you see that is not implied. The stor...

  I Demonstration of the ending part of the structuring process. Performance Piece: The Power of Expression Jorge L. Morejon The Healing Power of Expression: A Journey through Trauma, Pain, and Transformation , is a piece commissioned by The Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders  in collaboration with Susan Kleinman, BC-DMT. The piece was produced by Adrienne Ressler, LMSW-CEDS at the Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders, Florida. The piece was specially choreographed for the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Conference (iaedp) on  February 28, 2014 in St. Petersburg, Florida. It has been performed multiple times nationally and internationally. The last performance of the piece took place during the Opening of the  the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) 54th Annual Conference in Miami, Florida, October 17-20, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency Miami. II Continuation of the process of structuring solo pieces.  III St...

      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...

--------------------------------   Space and Relationship  T he 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?   ---------------   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 – bo...