MOVEMENT AWARENESS

with Tamas Moricz

This Workshop will lead you to a better understanding on how to create at a high level of artistry. We'll work towards precision, articulacy and defining your authentic performing qualities. You'll learn to dance with clear and generous movement, remember choreography faster and improve the sense of your body in motion. It will also help you make better use of your already existing dance knowledge.

During the course we'll work with ideas that result in complex movements and better your sense of coordination and balance/off-balance. We will use Improvisational Modalities that give choreographic results. Room Writing, Folding, Bridging, Extrusions, Inclinations, Point/Point-line, Isometries, Shearing, Transparencies, 'Laban-box, Cross-hemispheric exercises etc. will enable you to specifiy movement quality and demontstrate them with precision. Through further examining Dynamics, Momentum, Direction, Velocity, Rhythm, etc. we will learn to use their influences and to construct them into choreographic structures.

The course gives a new approach towards dance education. It steers away from didactic training and instead uses a method that reinforces and educate the nervous system. The method creates a higher level of awareness towards the body in motion. A clear sense of movement is usually achieved by repetitive training during a long period. However with the method I present a sense of the body and it's workings are already applied towards the learning process and achieve a very high level of articulacy and artistic grace.

The training makes use of the nervous system in such a way that it reduces training time as well as makes the newly learnt ideas much more stable. The new information, becomes easy to recuperate even after a prolonged absence of training. ( It becomes an automatic sense of movement, such as during bicycling, walking, examples where you don't have to pay attention, your body simply does it without specific attention to it. ) You become aware of what are "the right way of doing certain movements" This automatic sense of movement, as well as a certain flow of focus is applied towards detailed and explained dancing. Learning first to keep rigor of a simple focus challenges the way how to pay attention to detail yet it also allows for a full range of movement. They both are needed and applied to retaining only one principal idea. This simple "tool" needs a certain focus to retain its quality as well as it's clarity. Once that focus is achieved and becomes consistent it's then applicable to different rigor as well as any style of dancing. This is where the real training begins. Different tools, ideas ( so called improvisational modalities) are practiced until the body gets a sense of flowing your focus from one particular rigor to another and at the same time maintaining freedom of creativity. This gives clear intention in the dancers mind. ( ie. I hold my hand in a certain form. ) while it also gives a clear visual information to the audience, ( this dancer is showing me the form of his hand, while he's able to move freely. ) The audience sees a clear intention as well as a wide range of generous movements. Once both rigor and freedom of movement are easily applicable, creative work becomes more articulate as well as visually explained and graceful.

There is a sense of movement that isn't coming from conscious directive, but is an innate sense of flow, musicality, rhythm and dynamics. This sense of movement however is very reliable. It's always uniquely individual and it is always there in each of us, even in those who have never trained to dance or to perform.     Its a sense that produces great satisfaction and joy. Dancing freely allows joy to flow without the judgement towards the from or flow that we create. It's an immediate response to immediate impulses. There is no fixed form only an innate sense of movement that we all possess. 

To make use of this innate sense of movement and to apply it during the learning process is my entry into dance training.    To reach a creative state where this sense of movement can be applied towards clarity of form or the rigors of any style of dance. 

This un-judgemental state of moving allows for freedom, risk taking and unfamiliar happenstances to take effect. Movement need not be aesthetic or expertly coordinated. It needs to be only authentic. It is however often more more generous and graceful.  

Applying freedom of movement to rigor and precision  are essential tools during the process of learning dance.   

Their mastery assures the road to excellence. Achieving clarity of lines and form, yet allowing for freedom of movement, learning to create a Flow of Focus. 

Understanding when and how to allow happenstance to take it's effect. A precise use of form. Use of the body's own workings during movement. Happenstances, happy accidents.     

Precision towards any choreographic structure while retaining freedom of expression , timings, dynamics and an authentic sense of movement. 

The main benefit of this type of improvisation is to arrive at a fluid state of creativity, where you can make better split-second decisions and use them to articulate your individual qualities. Seeing movement this new way will greatly improve your improvisation skills, choreographic practice and dance technique, regardless of style.

The course offers you high quality knowledge that leads to a state in which the body does the thinking and your movements will become clear and graceful. You will learn to use and respect the sense of each movement without "interpreting" it.

The workshop is based on ideas that William Forsythe and the Ballett Frankfurt used to develope their works.

The week long workshop is 250 euros with Pre-Registration, (up to two weeks before starting date). 290 euros afterwards or without Registration. For conditions on taking part, please read the Registration form.

For further Information and to Register:

tamas@tamasmoricz.com