what???????????

http://www.sevensistersgroup.com/video/

'mockumentary' to ballroom dancing...
no cooment!

SRT Marina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_BUBu1VH7g&list=UU8aaCcpIDdScTef7x1wjWTg&index=1&feature=plcp

again suspending the torso into the space and sending the skull into the air and allowing the spine  to curl naturally.  also a bit of help from my partner was vmore than welcome: brushing down the legs, up the arms and fingers, floating the head and torso, walking the spine, etc... I felt it as a reminder of my extremities going sideways and extending, but I also felt more grounded and rooted, supported and wider.
The idea of body mind unity arrived to me today...exploratin, curiosity, what is there/, feelings, sensitivity, beath through, giving a purpose, responses...

SRT Polly [23rd Feb 2012] -reflection

[gossima thread]

Just before the class I have noticed that I was arrivinh into my body...slowly and I felt like a special mood or a mist was covering me every second...
We went straight into the watchful state, in which I arrived very quicly because of last week practice and then we found ourselves a partner to soflen some body parts...leading into the whole body and the coming back. This happened as a dialogue between Jen and myself and I enjoyed a lot using different body parts ( neck, head, knees, elbows, spine) to send the softness into her body rather than my palm. It feels like a coin, as sending the softness into Jen also offered me a spongy feeling and a floating state. The torso raising fit extremly well after this duet as my whole body got 'pressed' as a sponge...and then floating up the tosro offered back my spine lenght and opened me up to the space again.
The focus drops into the open spaces of our body specially teh pelvic floor, torso and spine area. I felt like I had a huge ball inbetween my arms that shaped my body as a round one , offering me a lot of volume, weight and fluidity, as a image score for my movement....and then gossima thread appears and connects to the base of the middle fingers of each arm and sometimes dissolve into the space and reappear...my instinct leaded me through the curiosity and natural path...allowing the movement to find myself and to arrive. Balancing and suspending the torso inti the space almost feels liek flying a few seconds and then gliding on the floor again looking after the moment when it suspends again and it expands easily into the air...

[journal reflection]

phrasing class- sarah wately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZUQ6_C9CPg&feature=BFa&list=UU8aaCcpIDdScTef7x1wjWTg&lf=plcp

This is another phrase that I enjoy dancing not because of the beauty of the movement but because of the way it travels through my body and because of the connections that I am aware of while moving.

• skull floating upwards into the ceiling
• lenghten into the spine
• balance
• skull leading
• spaces and air between the bones and vertebrae
• suspending

As feedback from sarah : wider lounge-having the sense of a grounded dancer and before going up side down feel the spine straight, having the sense of suspendfin the skull in the air.
Very useful feedback as it helps me to dance through images, to visualise myself in motion and wakakes my body awareness in relation to the space around. Also this phrase was designed for a line.

I also thins that all this principles are actuallu related to the SRT classes, as they encourrage the suppleness, the economy of the movenet, the multi directional alignement. I do believe that they are somewhere in my mind when I perform these set phrases and they do have a stong impact over my dancing.

Phrase Class- Sarah Wately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpteBt4Fyg&feature=BFa&list=UU8aaCcpIDdScTef7x1wjWTg&lf=plcp


A very valuable and rich class, full of enegry and again my whole body sais YES to movement...
While teaching us this class Sarah dropped the attention over the music and she chose very well the song and together we found some characteristics of this song:

• determination
• driving
• power
• insisting

A few words that can describe the movement of this phrase and associating words/characteristics to a movement is very helpful to really embody the movement/the style/the path...
This phrase also reminds me about Pina Bausch...and a lot of 'body connections' that we have learned during the first year: skull floating, skull to tailbone connection, lenghten into the spine, etc...

ceramic installation art IPP2

I have found an impressive artist working with ceramic ...

http://heppypots.blogspot.com/

IPP2 hanging

I have found a very interesting website about art, installation art

http://introductiontoartsandculture.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/m5-web-based-art/

hanging upwards IPP2

Walking around Kenilworth with my senses opened made me think about all the materials around us, whare they are, their shapes, colors, position...and everything is actually hanging upwards...

What si that force that makes us hanging upwards? why is everything evolving uprads?

IPP2 - research

Installation art in the new millenium

• works by artists who crtitically engaged with the experience of human perception, who tested limits and expanded its possibilities ----> modernization of European thought
• awareness of a double-sideness of perceptual experience: external techniques and practices and capabilities of the observer's own body and nervous system
• the use of machines, media and technologies---->creating unanticipated spaces and environments where our visual and intellectual habits are challenged or disrupted.
• if art is about technology, this means that my brother is witnessing every day art form by making the RMI of thousands of people who come into the clinique with serious distorsions, transformations, mutilations...
• investigating the relationship between artist and audience
• public-private spaces