Dance Training Journal 14: 2/25/15

Dance Training Journal 14: 2/25/15

*Breath: Torso, Fluidity, oxygen, motor skills, efficiency

*Sensing: Kinthesthesia, body and space, slowdown, relax, less effort

* Connectivity: Feel relationship, Aimiing part of body, Parts create whole, don't try hard, Nothing to achieve, Pay attention to internal connectivity

*Initiation: where begin motion, where you start, affects what you do.

*Somatics: Greek, mind, body spirit Wholeness

Focus individual's Proprioceptive experience

Somatics, are the opposite of audience focused performances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatics

This was a really important session for me. The warm-up meditative exercises, of course, were right up my alley with my martial arts-yoga background. What was new, was doing those with the partner touching me. My partner tristian was touching my shoulder blades, and when he started to give me "energy" my usually tense shoulders just dropped, and relaxed. Was wonderful. Another thing i noticed, was that my ability to shift weight, and sense my own inner workings, was very heightened. ALl in all, very helpful, very useful.