Hip shimmy, hand waves (breakdown and slow drilling of 3 point push), hand figure 8’s (breakdown and slow drilling), undulations up with prep (using C curve), undulations up (including open and close focus, as well as connecting pelvis tilt to leg to start with either weight shifting back with pelvic drop or forward with pelvic tilt, then adding. undulation up).
Working with direct and indirect - experimentation with each separately before alternating, using our belly dance technique, integrating direct and indirect with last week’s reach (affecting the space in our room).
Reach, grab, push, pull exploration. Selecting 2-3 gestures, movements or concepts. Expanding and shrinking them.
Spinner play, ending with open play.
The notion of kinesphere was created by Rudolf Laban to define: “the sphere around the body whose periphery can be reached by easily extended limbs without stepping away from that place which is the point of support when standing on one foot.”
Effort is the fluctuation and change in the dynamics energy and can be classified through Space, Weight, Time and Flow.
Posture/Gesture warm up, working with sequential and simultaneous.
8 fast phrases to Rhye’s Phoenix
Dynamics = How
Action = What
Space = Where
Movement quality: the identifying attributes created by the release, follow-through, and termination of energy, WHICH ARE KEY TO MAKING MOVEMENT BECOME DANCE.
Using gesture, posture and posture-gesture merger from Laban.
Circle warm up, hip accents (stationary and traveling), chest tilts (stationary, traveling, paired with hands), undulations down (including articulated version or using isolations only, stationary, traveling, “C” curve, undulation play), adding hand waves to undulations down kinda old school tribal fusion.
Volume (as in music) as dynamics defined as varying levels of force, and energy.
Working with Soft or Loud, Crescendo and Decrescendo, dividing the room, the sides of the body, free play.
Summation and ideas for practice from The Holistic Dancer’s October focus on Dynamics.
