Residency in Ljubljana, in Residential Center in Ljubljana on embodied flow...

 

 Hi everyone, 

I am starting my next journey, actually it is more developing my master thesis around embodied flow in motion, somatic contemplation and exploring the floor.

Today was the day for the exploring space, breath and bones by using embodied fundamentals and somatic approach.

I did for the first day more than I expected. I was going, or at least trying to go very slow, my body was aching today, and images went also slow, but after some time, after getting in touch with the basics of anatomy (back to the basics::)always help)

I started with the eyes closed, and I must say it was quite different experience than with the eyes opened. I was trying to find points of communication within, with myself, in my body... Sometimes this conversation looks like a normal to us movers, dancers, communicators, but to get in contact with yourself, is sometimes quite difficult.

I tried to make a serious of movement from one single and simple movement within, between and around the space I was in. The breath was my first contact with the space within, my real eMOTION but also a major point in a real physical space.

I was playing with the imaginative forms such as golden globe, elastic threads, or metal strings..I was playing with the small balls and trying to get in contact imaginatively with the other bodies. Hydration of the spine is one of my major point to get into the physicality, I prefer not staying in one and repetitive same movement, but today was a perfect time to stay repetitively in one place...

Expression of sadness got me today..is it body the only medium I can express the sadness and all emotions?  maybe today it is...with a silent scream I was trying to work on reaching from the limbs and still improve hydrated spine and breath.

Finding stability by using micromovements can be quite challenging work, to work on proprioception and finding your real position not only in a dancing studio, rather in a whole world, planet, Space...

Through a really ghostly simple touch and mmm sound, I was trying to shift my weight and pelvis. Micromovement through arms, thoracic spine, pelvic floor, legs, fingertips, neck, face became so natural and fluid. I realized that I do not need big range of movement to go through the space, I can be as a little fish in aquarium, and still move my own way, think on my own way.

Seasoning the movement with a sparkle of expansion I got my answer for today's exploration, and that is to use more intuition rather than impulse, to nurture myself from within rather then show off my physicality...

Of course, as contemporary like to play with the gravity, I was also playing with that reality of possible contact with the floor and (in)stability by adding soft and slow spiral just to spice my movement with the thought "Can I really slow the movement and still stay fluid and can I stop, pause, freeze the time?

At the end of the two hours of exploration I added nice and gently massage of pelvic floor, belly, our central part, slowly shaking, loudly exhaling, breathing with the sound, powerful walking through the space by using focus and velocity, direction....and then I just disappeared from that space....

Tomorrow I will try to develop most things...but always start with the breath, space and bones.. 

In each session I will try to get in touch with Bartenieff Principles so today and next days I will work more on breath support and Kinetic Chains, by establishing a synchrony for simultaneous body and vocal expression; breathing deeply from the abdominal region. The vast majority of the movement occur during exhalation, so it is very important to know how we actually inhaling and how we letting go, by taking advantage of the impulse of the iliopsoas in order to unleash movement and interrelate different body parts (in the last section some thoughts  are taken from 'The MOving Researcher" by Ciane Fernandes, pp 91).