Today involved an individual exploration of improvisation. In this class we had to lean against a wall and give weight to the wall, and then explore ways of moving around our 'space' to express some sort of emotion. We had to do about 5 or 6 movements in this space and come up with a sort of movement 'score' in which we could do these movements. I experimented with speed/tempo and sound. Sound and tempo are very expressive of a certain mood, atmosphere or energy, so it was extremely useful to experiment with this to explore the different emotions that are communicated with movement and how these can be manipulated by using different techniques. We then had to watch these individual performances but you were also performing with two other people. It was really nice to see the juxtaposition in some of the pieces when performed side by side, the contrast for me gave extra emphasis on the extremes and intricacies of human emotion and how movement expresses our deepest feelings that the lexical language can only hint at. This lesson really opened up my eyes into the reasons behind doing this module and I feel that my understanding of movement grows with every lesson.
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
What I did today: Week 4
During today's lesson we began with Pegggy Hackney's patterns of total body connectivity and the Makka-ho stretches which warms us up to be prepared and ready for our workshop. Here is some examples of the type of Makka-ho stretches we do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6w
Today involved an individual exploration of improvisation. In this class we had to lean against a wall and give weight to the wall, and then explore ways of moving around our 'space' to express some sort of emotion. We had to do about 5 or 6 movements in this space and come up with a sort of movement 'score' in which we could do these movements. I experimented with speed/tempo and sound. Sound and tempo are very expressive of a certain mood, atmosphere or energy, so it was extremely useful to experiment with this to explore the different emotions that are communicated with movement and how these can be manipulated by using different techniques. We then had to watch these individual performances but you were also performing with two other people. It was really nice to see the juxtaposition in some of the pieces when performed side by side, the contrast for me gave extra emphasis on the extremes and intricacies of human emotion and how movement expresses our deepest feelings that the lexical language can only hint at. This lesson really opened up my eyes into the reasons behind doing this module and I feel that my understanding of movement grows with every lesson.
Today involved an individual exploration of improvisation. In this class we had to lean against a wall and give weight to the wall, and then explore ways of moving around our 'space' to express some sort of emotion. We had to do about 5 or 6 movements in this space and come up with a sort of movement 'score' in which we could do these movements. I experimented with speed/tempo and sound. Sound and tempo are very expressive of a certain mood, atmosphere or energy, so it was extremely useful to experiment with this to explore the different emotions that are communicated with movement and how these can be manipulated by using different techniques. We then had to watch these individual performances but you were also performing with two other people. It was really nice to see the juxtaposition in some of the pieces when performed side by side, the contrast for me gave extra emphasis on the extremes and intricacies of human emotion and how movement expresses our deepest feelings that the lexical language can only hint at. This lesson really opened up my eyes into the reasons behind doing this module and I feel that my understanding of movement grows with every lesson.
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