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...