(notebook notes only - finalized post to come later ....)
Class 1: the skull and the feet have both exactly 26 bones!
I was amazed to know that both the skull and feet are made of the same exact number of bones - both are constituted by 26 different bones in total.
As I am skeptic about coincidences ( especially regarding human body/nature - nothing in us seems to be a accident) - I immediate drawn a line of relation between these two: the skull and the feet - the mind and the body, the leader and the follower...
In reality, both allows us to explore the world in many different ways: the brain explores both inner and outside landscapes - the feet explore ground, soil, water - the many material qualities of what exists outside us. They are both receptors.
Improvisation exercise: a partner exercise - improvisation and response on exploring the inner and outside landscape of feet. Start point is the floor.
My dance partner for this exercise was Gaby (Skinner teacher - she is great - very powerful energy - ^^^!)
She starts by sketching her own personal exploration of the ground - them I answer to her sketch with my own improvisation - and finally we speak about what we saw in each other performance.
.Gabys feedback on my impro. first lay in one word: Precision, she felt her attention focusing on the precise quality of my movement - and the image the received was: feet moving gracefully like a horse.
She saied this created a very clear and precise response in her to my movement - she knew exactly how to respond to my impro.
My dance partner for this exercise was Gaby (Skinner teacher - she is great - very powerful energy - ^^^!)
She starts by sketching her own personal exploration of the ground - them I answer to her sketch with my own improvisation - and finally we speak about what we saw in each other performance.
.Gabys feedback on my impro. first lay in one word: Precision, she felt her attention focusing on the precise quality of my movement - and the image the received was: feet moving gracefully like a horse.
She saied this created a very clear and precise response in her to my movement - she knew exactly how to respond to my impro.
Class 2 - the movement of breath - breathing and taking in and outside us
Omg - breathing - such a common, unnoticed organic, vital routine we all perform several thousands times each day - and yet such a powerful, vital, relevant transport of getting information in and out of us.
The concept and mechanics of breading must be really one of the most fascinating and poetic performances of the human body. When we breath, we perform a dual movement, we build a bridge that transport in an out of us all that is outside us ( the energy, the smell, the space...)
Breathing is a truth reflection of ourselves and how we work as human beings - we are always changing, like a river current always on the move - both organically ( all of our cells rejuvenate each 3 days), mentally and emotionally - we are in nature this incredible wheel always spinning, always entering the new - we never touch, experience, or see things the same way twice - each precious moment of existence is in fact UNIQUE.
By breading you feed ( literally - is is proven oxygen is food to our body cells), you comunicate, you travel, you explore - it is a powerful self empowering tool - start to use it!
We breath not only with our lungs, but with all of our body - just pay attention - take in a deep lomg breath and FEEL the air traveling inside your body - moving up to your skull (brain) and down to your lungs...
The feeling of BREATHING with your SKULL is a powerful, intoxicating experience and can make you feel like you are a little bit drunk ... but it is a wonderful, relaxing feeling that often opens a door into yourself.
By experience BREATHING at this deeper level you can also feel and start to explore the empty space inside your body - this is REALLY a EXCITING, wonderful feeling - suddenly you discover this empty, really big spaces inside yourself ( inside your skull, inside your legs, inside your arms, between your bones...) - I have discovered several, different landscapes inside myself - and know I can start to dance/move inside this spaces - SUPER EXCITING!
Class notes + feedback:
1) dual movement of breathing - being drunk with breath - breathing with your skull - exploring the spaces inside your head/body
2) riding the partner breath - my partner cryed
3) my impro.: I was somewhere else - my mind was a peacefull, white energy place- only one tought in my mind, only one feeling in all my body, bones, muscles: my BREATH- dancing my ow breath
4) feedback from Miranda (teacher) exquisite personal impro. + trio contact : your dance was very beautiful, honest and exquisite
Class 3 - the heart
I was fascinated to learn that the heart is the first the first organ to be formed in us humans (when we are fetus) - it is fully functioning and beating from the age of 3 weeks already!!!
I was also amazed by the size of the heart in the early stages of our existence ( while at the mother womb-developing) it is huge - almost 40% of the fetus body!!!
This information came to enforce my own personal belief and admiration for the heart - this mysterious pumping organ symbolically connected with the idea of love, emotion, the ability to experience and ouch life, existence trough emotions. The Mind of course is of great importance - because it allow us to process all the incredible rich, precious ray of emotional experience - into knowledge into wisdom ...
But ultimately I believe that there would not be a Mind without a Heart ...
No love, no life ....
