Name of teacher / supervisor
Ederson Rodrigues Xavier
Period, duration
Block 3, 7 weeks
Block 4, 6 weeks
Block 5, 5 weeks
Study Load:
87 contact hours
Competencies
1, 3, 6
Summary:
I approach my classes with principles of release technique, yoga, martial arts, and fletcher/pilates within the traditional dance technique. The class focuses on the prevention of injuries and strengthening the central core of the body, like this developing internal connections, and preparing a calm, aware body, ready for precise dancing. It concentrates on the spine as a leading moving entity, on weight shifting, use of breath, alignment, balance, quality of structural form, coordination, and rhythm.The exercises build from simple to complex, by drawing circles, lines, spirals, and drawing awareness to the opposition energy, allowing the body to move and fall through space consciously, promoting lengthening in every movement.
Class structure:
The class goes through a 3 part structure, floor, centre, traveling through space and/or diagonals.
Floor:
- Acknowledgement of body weight by use of breath and the floor as a support entity.
- Spine awareness by stretching the cross lines between the limbs and spine.
- Core awareness and how is it connected to the limbs.
- Core work with stretches, legs swings and shoulder girdle placement.
Centre:
- Consciousness Isolation and articulations of body parts.
- Acknowledgement of arms weight and how is it connected to the rig-cage, spine and core
- Consciousness of weight while performing standing exercises on both legs and on one leg
- Awareness of top of the head and tail bone while shifting weight.
- Moving in space through circle movements and specific directional cross lines on different rhythms.
- Work on balance positions and acknowledge that it isn’t a still position
Diagonal/moving in space:
-Exercises are built up from simple to complexity, by adding information, using of different limbs to perform the same exercise, change of directions, develop flow between exercises, use of breath, directional clarity, and connect previous exercises on a spacial phrase.
-Awareness of oppositional and spiral forces as a moving engine, thus creating lengthening in every move.
Learning goals:
- Connect the mind and body through breath
- Conscious weight management in space
- Core awareness and how to switch body centre through it.
- Ability to stand firmly on one leg
- Ability to isolate body parts at will
- Improve coordination and posture
- Develop a sensorial body while dancing
- Use of mirror as a corrective tool and not as an ideal or desired image check.
- Be able to ask questions and to be curious about your own body development
- Be aware of the relevance of doubts while working.
- Promote a dialogue with the body and its relationship in space and time by using the body as a conscious instrument and as an architectural object, which has a memory and a story.