LET'S BREATH

I realized that most eurythmists move in apnoea, without breathing. I asked to different teachers and eurythmists about breathing and i was always said not to focus my attention on that... from my experience, it is true that the movements must not be directly related to one way of breathing: this is so because the movement would loose its freedom of unlimited expansion in space if it had to depend and be bound to a specific way of breathing. Nevertheless breathing is fundamental!! and it is fundamental that we develop an observation for our patterns of breathing. Eurythmists have very often an high breathing: that means that they are not properly using their diaphragm, in this way the lower part of the body is not oxygenating, and this consequently hinderts the connection with the ground through the legs.

I am doing some exercises to improve my diaphragm breathing and i am thankful for the great results and effects on my eurythmical movement. Do you want to try? just send me a comment or mail me..let's do it together or at least speak about it!!!: )

ABOUT IMPROVISATION

This is a passage written by Masaki Iwana about the importance of improvisation in a butoh training. I think eurythmists often work not enough with impro (or do not work with it at all!), ...i hope this trend can change!!! : )

"It is necessary to to do a training of improvisation. In order to free one's mind and body, improvisation is an absolutely necessary training. However, improvisation is not about doing whatever you want to do, like it is generally understood. Improvisation is a work of precisely choosing actions from moment to moment by preparing as many sensory and perceptive antennae as possible. In a sense, if our antennae grows more numerous as a result of training, an action that might happen by chance comes nearer to necessity (nature)."

HANDS

I worked for a while with my hands, trying to build up a relation between my inner imaginations and them. These above are two short extracts of my research. In the first video I play an improvised dialogue , in the second video I am doing the "evolutionary sequence" : a sequence of letter movements suggested by R.Steiner.