An Improvement Upon the 90/90
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Stage Fright & the Nervous System (Part 2)
Amelia Chan [Part One] I cannot even tell you how often students come to me asking for a lesson right before an audition or a performance. Or this: I’ll contact you for a lesson when I’ve practiced and “learned” my piece/program. It is such a classical music world thing where all our lives, […]
Stamina & “Strengthening”
Amelia Chan This video is a clip from a recital a few days ago. Our program was short, but both pieces on there were big ones. Both the Brahms D minor Sonata and the Scherzo require an almost continuous sense of mass and gravity from the tiny violin, even in moments of relative lightness. […]
Hanging Contexts & Culturing
Jason Round
Redefining ‘Muscle Firing’
Tom Morrison Have you ever been told or thought that a certain muscle just isn’t firing? Unfortunately, a muscle firing has nothing to do with cool laser beams shooting from your double bicep pose… much to my immense disappointment… but instead it’s a much more confusing term that has people scratching their heads […]
Everyday Things
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Locomotive Coordination
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Cross-Contextual Spine Training
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Positioning the Shoulder
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Defining Body Mapping
Christine Ruffolo The phrase ‘body mapping’ has many interpretations. It appears as nebulous as it is exact, with the user either struggling to communicate their construct or utilizing words so specific that it pigeon-holes the potential meaning into a singular stranded notion — too big to grasp or too miniscule to get a hold […]
Inarticulate vs. Articulate Movement
Jason Round Definition [Movement] is a fluid term which involves an interplay between both involuntary/inarticulate and voluntary/articulate movement. The first step of any critical interrogation is definition. This is necessary so that readers can understand what is meant by the term ‘movement’ when it is used throughout any previous and consequent criticisms and theorisations whilst outlining the field for […]
Movement As Language: Babble & Personal Meaning
Jason Round View this post on Instagram BABBLE: the process of learning a new lexicon for floor-communication is just as clear in its hesitation, uncertainty, and lack of fluency as is the oral. Having been exposed to a new set of vocabulary and syntax by Odelia Goldschmidt at the EMM, I find […]
A Glossary of Context
Jason Round [Movement] ‘Movement’ is our subject and our study. It is the gross umbrella under which every element of our investigation concerns itself, whether through physical, intellectual, or spiritual paths. Movement is all encompassing; there can be no ‘outside’, as it cannot be contained. Movement is the very nature and underlying condition of […]
Tools, Context, and Expanding Possibility
Miguel Viero No hands, no arms. Take the stick as low as possible and come back up. Try to move in different ways everytime. Explore and experiment, don’t take it to seriously. Failed? Laugh, start again. Always with a smile. More options, more freedom. • Sin manos, sin brazos. Lleva el palo lo […]
Perception, Permission, And Possibility
I was struck by a question the other day: How do we perceive what’s real? What are the boundaries we live by, and what compels us to follow them? It’s something I’ve been deeply curious about in my work as a somatic coach. Very often I find that when someone develops more options for better […]