Relaxing- Concentrating- Visualizing
Relaxing -is important in Contemporary for different reasons including...
Technically, it allows the dancer to optimize the use of her/his energy and carry as few 'parasite tensions' as possible while dancing.
It is also important to help soften the muscular tone, which creates a smooth feeling of the particular style of Contemporary. In the physiological terms, in many cases helps to develop flexibility. Concentrating will help prepare the mind to perform better.
Visualizing -is a special characteristic of contemporary dance training, It focuses in perceiving body and movement mental images from a kinetics perceptive from the dancers inner perception not from the outside visual aspect.
General aims... stimulate body locally, focusing on the movement of joints separately. Also stretch softly to begin stimulating muscles.
Characteristics including:
SPACE: low level (on the floor lying)
middle level (sitting, on four supports, kneeling.)
TIME: moving very slow or static positions, no rhythmic patterns.
DYNAMIC: soft, loose, weight given to gravity.
Warm-up - General aims.. Warm-ups is to activate the heart and cardiovascular rhythm
It also activate the connection of the extremities if the body with its centre. It helps to work on the mental image of the entire body as a unity.
Characteristics including:
SPACE: levels exchange, short paths in-scenic space
TIME: slow and rhythmic
DYNAMIC: fluid, 'legato'
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