Movement with Glynn

Pina Bausch~ "I don't care how you move, what interests me is what moves you."

Today movement was quite a trip. We tried to isolate each of our separate muscles. We also worked on proprioception (what your body is receiving from outside); we respond proprioceptively. When you see great acting it is the proprioceptive sense at work. Your feelings can often be wrong and your feelings should never be trusted. Your feelings are just an emotional gust. Spontaneity does not exist. Thoughts creates actions.

Discipline is the deciding of the truth.

Floor class: breath out on the movement, in on the rest. In through the nose and out through the mouth (sinks with lines when speaking)

• lift the head to look between the legs.
• star
• lift the butt
• cat/cow yoga position into "lizard on the rock" (cobra yoga position).

The order of muscle isolation is actually very important. Must move to music. Epilepsy can cause funny things to happen when focusing on specific spots.

• eyes~ keep the absolute physical link in the eyes
• touch~ my heart in my hand
• tails (pelvis and hips)~ swing your pelvis. Back as interesting as front.
• open hearts (tits and pecks)~ lift in the upper body. Sternum (dagger) protects you from everyone
• knees~ knees are flexible joints, no weight transfer (not side to side/lateral movement)
• divine chalice (receiving and sharing)~ lifting the upper body to give strength to arms and support. Fill up together with other people.
• contraction~ muscle only knows how to contract. Consciousness stops contraction.
• first memory of dance (first age you remember dancing)~ finding where your release lies.
• corporate movement (move as a single entity)~ move as a group. The body of work moves as one being.

Glynn is one of those individuals that is absolutely hilarious. This class made all of us laugh hysterically. It was like some of us literally could not breath because we were laughing so hard.