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 Last night we had very profound and radiant online session framed by relationship between theory and practice. I must admit that last 10 days I am making connections more than ever between these two things. I have learnt how is reciprocal and inevitably intertwined relationship between theory and practice. After  getting the feedback on my overview and analysis and after last night's session I have recognised that I put an accent, thinking, observation too much on my research project and little about observation on literature, so these days I am working on balance between overview research project, literature and reflective diary and what is going around when I look for validation between these three things. I just did not realize that I went to much into reflection about my research (which was ok for the Module 1) around embodied fluidity. Practice means actual operation or experience, and this empirical approach seeks understanding about what is going on in the research and...

OK...this is how looks start of my week...my mind is blowing, full of ideas, information and I am also stuck with the movement too..yes, I know I need to step back and breathe and come back to the sense...but we know this is not easy (at this moment). It is about less than month for the submission and less than two months for the oral presentation..Some kind of fear is here but I need to find enjoyment in this things too...I will finally share the research of my interest and my personal creative endeavor with the others...and yes I am starting with the new chapter of my life regarding thinking and reflecting on movement. I must say that this Master gave me a great confidence to move on and changed my professional practice and gave new patterns and  perspectives into the movement, opened my eyes, brain..I feel more reborn and reconnect. For the time being I am working on the artefact, and I am trying to collect all valuable videos with my practice and observation from the nature in...

 Last week, Monday and Wednesday we had very delighted artistic conversation with two spectacular women, artists, dancers, choreographers Helen Kindred and Angela Woodhouse. Both of them represented in unique way their art work and I found somehow myself in both versions. Since my Master thesis is talking about EMBODIED FLOW IN MOTION I could very much connect with Helen's way of teaching, dancing, and thinking around the body, music, flow, movement language, surrendering, breathing, not controlling, awareness of gravity, phenomenological approach to the breath, movement, Self and the movement improvisation in relation with Bartenieff's Movement practice, concept and somatic languages, I also found myself with Angela's visual art work too, especially during the pandemic, I simply started to observe things, people, environment, objects, details while I am walking in un-ordinary, different way. I would say in a less kinaesthetic way, because I was always moved by the sounds, ...

     Last Friday I have finished practical part of my research. 7 phases done! I must say it was challenging in many ways; technical, experimental, bilingual (in the end I used both languages Croatian and English), by exploring different movement and emotional levels and layers,... I had my flows haha... Anyway, I was enjoyed and I will definitely do another phase again but this time with the real people, in one space, where we can observe, talk to each other, touch, sharing vibrations from the body in one place. This phase was for sure exploration of possibilities, we worked more on inner connectivity and outer expressivity, more vivid and louder. We were trying to use all body language, trying to connect active self with micro-movements, use more and more changes in the flow to the level of exhaustion then stop, freeze, make a pause. We were connecting to the spirals and explore focus and no focus, open to all information but still channeled to a one thing. then, matchi...