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MOVES Performing Arts Studies A series of books edited by Christopher Bodman, London, UK Volume 1 Music Unlimited The Performer's Guide to New Audiences Isabel Farrell and Kenton Mann Volume 2 Experimental Music Notebooks Leigh LAndy Volume 3 Inner Rhythm Dance Training for the Deaf Naomi Benan Volume 4 Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945 Hazel Smith and Roger T. Dean Volume 5 Moves A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement Katya Bloom and Rosa Shreeves Volume 6 Moving Notation A Handbook for Musical Rhythm and Elementary Labanotation for the Dancer Jill Beck and Joseph Reiser In preparation 82 Scores Paul Ramsay MOVES A SOURCEBOOK OF IDEAS FOR BODY AWARENESS AND CREATIVE MOVEMENT Katya Bloom and Rosa Shreeves First published Harwood Academic Publishers Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 1998 Harwood Academic Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Bloom, Katya Moves: a sourcebook of ideas for body awareness and creative movement. - (Performing arts studies; v. 5) 1. Movement (Acting) I. Title II. Shreeves, Rosa 792' .028 ISBN 90-5702-132-3 (hardcover) 90-5702-133-1 (softcover) ISBN 978-9-057-02133-6 (pbk) Cover drawing by Rosa Shreeves CONTENTS Introduction to the Series xi List oj Figures xiii Acknowledgements xv Preface xvii Introduction 1 PART ONE 1 Inner Looking and Listening 7 Emptying 7 Basic positions 8 A sitting meditation 10 Visualization 11 Breathing meditations 11 Watching your breath 11 Letting go 12 Directing your breath 13 Dissolving restrictions 14 The inner volume 14 The aerial view 15 Fifteen minutes to stand up 15 Standing meditation 16 Moving with awareness 17 Meditative walking in a circle 17 Summary 18 2 Getting in Touch 19 Self massage 19 Rolling 21 v vi Contents Floor duet - contacting your bones 21 A slow weighty journey 22 Combining movements 22 A certain pathway 23 See yourself move 24 Resting places 24 Summary 26 3 Connecting to Your Energy 27 Shaking 27 Swinging 27 Twisting 28 Bouncing 28 Tapping and patting 29 Analysis of a yawn 30 Summary 30 PART TWO 4 Lengthening and Loosening 33 Breathing stretches 33 Tension release 34 Wake up stretches 34 Seaweed spine 35 Starfish stretch 36 Inner intention 37 Escalator spine 37 Arm cycle 37 Dig your heels in 38 Dreamy head roll 39 Tortoise stretch 39 The snaking spine, 40 Walking on air 40 Waterfall hang 41 Recognition of self 42 Summary 42 5 Moveable Parts 43 Upper body - lower body 43 Lower back roll 44 Contents vii Seven regions 44 Bubbling up the spine 45 A figure eighting spine 45 Spine information 45 Orchestrating the trunk 46 Head to floor massage 47 Where the skull meets the spine 47 Freely arcing head 48 Oiling the hip joint 48 Improvisation arising from an exercise 49 Barefoot thoughts 49 Four foot exercises 49 Foot massage 51 Moon walks 51 Seaweed arms 52 Angels in the snow 52 Homage to the hands 52 Three hand exercises 53 Where to begin 54 Wall moves 54 Release into movement 55 Connect up 55 Summary 56 6 Finding Body Rhythms 57 The breath and the heartbeat 57 Phrasing through breath 58 Playing with repetition 58 Spontaneous response to music 59 Spontaneous response to a partner 59 Rhythms of relating 60 Stillness or movement 60 The present moment 61 Summary 62 7 Sensing and Seeing 63 The outer layer 63 Skin 63 Sensing through touch 64 Back sensing with a partner 64 viii Contents Tracing 65 Breathing pathways 65 Getting a feel for space 66 Taking shape 66 Fresh eyes 67 Forest and the trees 68 Sound space 68 Using imagery 69 From image to movement 70 Examples of images for movement 70 From movement to image 71 Responses - images arising from movement 72 Being moved by images 73 Unzipping yourself 73 Spine moves 73 Body curves 74 A curving dance 75 Power points 75 Images for grounding through the feet 77 Head thoughts 77 Eyes closed - eyes open 78 Summary 79 8 Making Contact 81 Guidelines for partner work 81 Back to back 81 Counter balance 82 Stretching with a partner 83 My weight, your weight 83 Felt messages 84 Massaging the back with the feet 84 Feet meeting feet 85 Head work 85 Massaging the back with the head 86 Give and take 87 Moulding your partner 87 Wheelbarrow style 88 Swing the statue 88 Reflection on partner work 89 Summary 90 Contents ix PART THREE 9 Moods, Memories and Dreams 93 Movement as mirror 93 The middle of your body 94 The emotional breath 94 Move your mood 95 An alternative way 96 What moves you? 97 Physical patterns 97 Observing moods through movement 98 Shadowing movement 98 Partner identification dance 99 Movement metaphors 99 Breathing sounds 100 Face thoughts 101 Mask faces 101 Hand language 102 Breathing into character 102 Walking into character 103 PhYSical memories 104 Memories from movement 106 A memorable object 106 Moving your dream 107 Dream themes 108 Dream fragments 109 Summary 110 10 Learning from Nature 111 Stillness in a landscape 111 Contacting the landscape 112 Earth and sky breaths 113 Walking through 114 Playing with a landscape 114 Changing view 115 Body map 116 An imaginary landscape 116 Landscape memories 117 Happy places 117 Water's edge 118
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