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• Kinetic Awareness®
fundamentals of your movement
explore and develop the full depth of your unique ablities
sense, understand and move from your individual body-mind
prevent and heal injuries, for life-long dancing
more information (external website)
• available
tension :
bridging technique / hyper.ballet
a comprehensive dance technique
for the contemporary dancer
when applied to bridging towards European Classical Ballet and its derivates,
it becomes hyper.ballet ...
a 2017 reflection after 20 years of development (.pdf)
level I - fundamentals:
body sense,
articulation, dynamics
exploring awareness of the moving body
low to medium tension levels, exploring and developing higher levels ...
functional anatomy
organic, bodymind-centric use of space
approaches:
- Kinetic
Awareness®
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Developmental Movement patterns
- Release
- vocal sounding
- contact improvisation
optional additional, encoding systems:
further preparation
& inspiration towards level II
- Masunaga
Meridian/Zen-Shiatsu stretches
- Bartenieff
Fundamentals
- Fundamentals Series developed by Jacques van Eijden, based on Developmental Movement
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elements from European Classical Ballet, Limňn technique, Graham technique
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Laban movement analysis and notation
recommended
complements:
- Axis Syllabus
- UZAZU
- Capoeira **
- Chi Kung and Tai Chi Chuan **
- Chakra work **
level II - applications:
space, time, character -
/ hyper.ballet
sensitive energy
application of level I to
- high tension levels
- geometric shapes / spatial patterns
- performance
approaches:
- Cunningham technique and vocabulary
- Eshkol-Wachmann spatial
system and notation
- character work in dance
performance
recommended
complements:
- Viewpoints (Overlie, Black)
- body-friendly acrobatics
- acting techniques
- Hula Kahiko (Traditional Hawaiian) **
- Danse Sabár (Sénégal) **
- Kathakali (India) **
- Jíng Jíu ("Chinese opera") **
ADDITIONAL STUDY:
• improvisation / composition
available tension
& con·sens·us
principles for
(group) improvisation and live-process (group)
composition
indoors and outdoors
Open
Form Composition strategies
intentionally using "open" and "closed" elements and directives in a dance composition
"open" - the movements can change in the moment of performance
"closed" - pre-specified ways of movement must be performed in a certain way
approaches:
- instant composition: memorizing
techniques
- chance-based composition
- dance scores
elements from other disciplines:
music, drama, set design
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analysis
introduction to movement
analysis and notation
approaches:
- simplified Laban Movement Analysis
- Eshkol-Wachmann notation
- Six Viewpoints
simplified Semiotic analysis applied to
dance/performance
from the example of visual
arts to the performing arts:
- what makes a style, a piece, a
performance?
- how does it work?
- in which
context
- for who?
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DISCLAIMER
THIS SYLLABUS IS DERIVED FROM LONGTIME EXPERIENCE AND STUDY OF EUROPEAN-
DERIVED DANCE TRADITIONS. IT IS A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THESE
TRADITIONS AND OPEN TO ANYONE WHO TAKES INTEREST IN THE STUDY
THE AIM IS TO PROVIDE A SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY, LONGLIVED FUNDAMENT FOR A
LIFETIME OF DANCING. MANY OTHER APPLICATIONS, ALSO TO OTHER KINDS OF DANCE,
ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS BASIC-FRAME, IF DESIRED.
AS A FORMATION FOR A PROFESSIONAL DANCER OF THE 21ST CENTURY,
THE ABOVE SYLLABUS IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT SERIOUS AND COMMITTED STUDY OF
NON-EUROPEAN DANCE TRADITIONS
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