khtervola
2009-07-29 07:19:15 UTC
I am not fond of the idea of one needing enormous amounts of exercise
in order to be able to do what one wants. It is my opinion that
without the robot likedness and boredness bought by the repetition one
could achieve higher, have the soul of things right and both sensitive
and well balanced reactive meaningful structure. A human being is not
a robot. The idea in dance is not to repeat and but to make always new
variations with the spirit alive and motivated. So I wonder if one
ought to start some other way than learning steps and exact movements.
One should build one's ability to move in dance like ways, to dance
freely in a way that varies meaningfully according to the situation.
Not that I myself would know it but I have the feeling that I never
could learn it by repeating mechanical forms, that way I would lose my
motivation first because I would learn that those things are not what
I mean by dance. Instead I would need to learn about things that feel
like dance, even if they are not called dance.
So rather than practice for years, I would like to start at the very
beginning with my students if I were a teacher. I would start by some
free running, remark about the good sides of reactivity and
sensitivity to atmospheres and about dropping away the memorized robot
like movements. Then continue by free running in the nature in an
uneven terrain: learning the reactivity, balance of the whole, the
sensitive variating role of the hands and the feet, of the whole body,
the joy of moving, emotional motivation for each movement, listening
to one's own rhythm in harmony with the demands of the terrain, etc. -
all the things natural to human movement! Free motion according to the
situation ought to be variable to dance expression: free movement, not
dictated by social custom but by your aim to express some emotional
state of mind. The playful ever varying motion in the terrain ought to
give sensitive balance of one's whole being: kind of listening to
one's inner instructions of usage, which is a very good ground to
build upon and something to boast on gesture language to others so as
to serve as an example. So instead of what you do, in the central
place ought to be how to do it: even if you typically do something
less than the norm, with a good way to do you can reach easily higher
than the norm...
in order to be able to do what one wants. It is my opinion that
without the robot likedness and boredness bought by the repetition one
could achieve higher, have the soul of things right and both sensitive
and well balanced reactive meaningful structure. A human being is not
a robot. The idea in dance is not to repeat and but to make always new
variations with the spirit alive and motivated. So I wonder if one
ought to start some other way than learning steps and exact movements.
One should build one's ability to move in dance like ways, to dance
freely in a way that varies meaningfully according to the situation.
Not that I myself would know it but I have the feeling that I never
could learn it by repeating mechanical forms, that way I would lose my
motivation first because I would learn that those things are not what
I mean by dance. Instead I would need to learn about things that feel
like dance, even if they are not called dance.
So rather than practice for years, I would like to start at the very
beginning with my students if I were a teacher. I would start by some
free running, remark about the good sides of reactivity and
sensitivity to atmospheres and about dropping away the memorized robot
like movements. Then continue by free running in the nature in an
uneven terrain: learning the reactivity, balance of the whole, the
sensitive variating role of the hands and the feet, of the whole body,
the joy of moving, emotional motivation for each movement, listening
to one's own rhythm in harmony with the demands of the terrain, etc. -
all the things natural to human movement! Free motion according to the
situation ought to be variable to dance expression: free movement, not
dictated by social custom but by your aim to express some emotional
state of mind. The playful ever varying motion in the terrain ought to
give sensitive balance of one's whole being: kind of listening to
one's inner instructions of usage, which is a very good ground to
build upon and something to boast on gesture language to others so as
to serve as an example. So instead of what you do, in the central
place ought to be how to do it: even if you typically do something
less than the norm, with a good way to do you can reach easily higher
than the norm...