Early Studies on Gravity
Natural Movement Training Ground transitions | How to get up from the floor without using the hands
Movement Research: Archers
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Exercise
Students were introduced to the study of gravity in relation to the human body in motion.
Students experimented with their own weight, gravity and how to get themselves down to the floor and off without help from their hands.
Students explored momentum and how to manipulate their body weight in order to get off the floor.
Students explored pulls and stresses, balance, fall, recovery, shapes, suspension and rebound
Floor, norm and air, what we called levels, were explored as students fell down and got up.
A new group phrase came out of this exercise.
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Exercise
Students were introduced to the study of gravity in relation to the human body in motion.
Students experimented with their own weight, gravity and how to get themselves down to the floor and off without help from their hands.
Students explored momentum and how to manipulate their body weight in order to get off the floor.
Students explored pulls and stresses, balance, fall, recovery, shapes, suspension and rebound
Floor, norm and air, what we called levels, were explored as students fell down and got up.
A new group phrase came out of this exercise.
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1. What is pedestrian movement? Why do we use pedestrian movement in class?
2. Why are levels important in dance?
3. How does using directions make your dance richer?
4. What is the difference between kinesphere and general space?
5. What does focus do for the dancer?
6. What is flow?
7. What is the difference between free flow and bound flow?
8. How did Laban's cube enhance your movement in space?
9. Isadora Duncan believed in "emotion before motion".
Explain.
10. What is the solar-plexus?
Why is important for dancers to know where the solar-plexus is located?
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GRAVITY
Gravity is an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. The closer objects are to each other, the stronger their gravitational pull is. Earth's gravity comes from all its mass. All its mass makes a combined gravitational pull on all the mass in your body. Thus,
Source:
What is gravity?
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Gravity in Dance:
The forces acting on an individual dancer create a push-pull relationship between the dancer and the surrounding space. The force you exert on the floor is affected by the direction and magnitude of the force. ... This results in a zero sum force acting on the body placing you in your center of gravity.
Source:
Physics of Dance Movements
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