Class Body and Movement I

1. Introduce a body awareness: - Exercises that enhance motor coordination, individual and collective; - Semantic analysis of posture and body behaviors; - Concentration exercises; - Disinhibition exercises; - Text embodiment exercises. 2. Approaching Consciousness through Movement: - Exercises to Improve Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Self-Awareness; - Breathing rhythm during exercises; - Speed of movements; - Think while acting. 3. Awareness of the extension of the interpreter's poetic universe: - Perception, Space, Time; Impulse and Decision; - Concentration and availability. 4. Improvisation. 5. The space: directions, levels, shapes, distance and size. 6. Relations: attention to, close to, touching, supporting and surrounding. 7. Interpretive autonomy and mastery of scenic poetics: - Scenic individuality and creative imagination; - Application of gesture as a dramaturgical sign. 8. The interaction between interpretive and scenic collective individuality.

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1.Body: Body awareness Alignment Uprightness Force Flexibility Body axis coordination 2. Space: Plans Directions Levels Trajectories Floor work 3. Time: Timing Duration Velocity Attack Phrasing Short and long 4. Dynamics: Accentuation Energy switching 5. Actions: Locomotives: Displacements, jumps, falls and turns Non-locomotor: Flex, Stretch, Shake, Balance, Twist. Oscillate 6. Contact Improvisation: Weight transfer Awareness of our weight and each other Development of our perception Development of organic movement: intuitive and reflective 7. Improvisation: Exploration of a theme and interpretation. Improvisation from various stimuli. 8. Composition and Interpretation: Work on the technical and emotional side of each one, from the construction of a sequence of movements.

Use of video material to complete work as a form of memory aid, and also to view the work of other artists to carry out repertoire, analysis and debate work.

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