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).
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.
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.
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.
