Bloom / Shreeves Moves

A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-134-40413-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 154 Seiten

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloom, Katya

Shreeves, Rosa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction to the Series

- List of Figures

- Acknowledgements

- Preface

Introduction

PART ONE

1 Inner Looking and Listening

- Emptying

- Basic Positions

- A Sitting Meditation

- Visualisation

- Breathing Meditations

- Watching Your Breath

- Letting Go

- Directing Your Breath

- Dissolving Restrictions

- The Inner Volume

- The Aerial Flow

- Fifteen Mintues to Stand Up

- Standing Meditation

- Moving with Awareness

- Meditative Walking in a Circle

- Summary

2 Getting in Touch

- Self Massage

- Rolling

- Floor Duet - Contacting Your Bones

- A Slow Weighty Journey

- Combining Movements

- A Certain Pathway

- See Yourself Move

- Resting Places

- Summary

3 Connecting to Your Energy

- Shaking

- Swinging

- Twisting

- Bouncing

- Tapping and patting

- Analysis of a Yawn

- Summary

PART TWO

4 Lengthening and Loosening

- Breathing Stretches

- Tension Release

- Wake Up Stretches

- Seaweed Spine

- Starfish Stretch

- Inner Intention

- Escalator Spine

- Arm Cycle

- Dig Your Heels In

- Dreamy Head Roll

- Tortoise Stretch

- The Snaking Spine

- Walking on Air

- Waterfall Hang

- Recognition of Self

- Summary

5 Moveable Parts

- Upper Body - Lower Body

- Lower Back Roll

- Seven Regions

- Bubbling Up the Spine

- A Figure Eighting Spine

- Spine Information

- Orchestrating the Trunk

- Head to Floor Massage

- Where the Skull meets the Spine

- Freely Arcing Head

- Oiling the Hip Joint

- Improvisation Arising from an Exercise

- Barefoot Thoughts

- Four Foot Exercises

- Foot Massage

- Moon Walks

- Seaweed Arms

- Angels in the Snow

- Homage to the Hands

- Three Hand Exercises

- Where to Begin

- Wall Moves

- Release into Movement

- Connect Up

- Summary

6 Finding Body Rhythms

- The Breath and the Heartbeat

- Phrasing through Breath

- Playing with Repetition

- Spontaneous Response to Music

- Spontaneous Response to a Partner

- Rhythms of Relating

- Stillness or Movement

- The Present Moment

- Summary

7 Sensing and Seeing

- The Outer Layer

- Skin

- Sensing Through Touch

- Back Sensing with a Partner

- Tracing

- Breathing Pathways

- Getting a Feel for Space

- Taking Shape

- Fresh Eyes

- Forest and the Trees

- Sound Space

- Using Imagery

- From Image to Movement

- Examples of Images to Movement

- From Movement to Image

- Responses - Images Arising from Movement

- Being Moved by Images

- Unzipping Yourself

- Spine Moves

- Body Curves

- A Curving Dance

- Power Points

- Images for Grounding through the Feet

- Head Thoughts

- Eyes Closed - Eyes Open

- Summary

8 Making Contact

- Suidelines for partner Work

- Back to Back

- Counter balance

- Stretching With a Partner

- My Weight, Your Weight

- Felt Massages

- Massaging the Back with the Feet

- Feet Massaging Feet

- Head Work

- Massaging thr Back with the Head

- Give and Take

- Moulding

- Summary

PART THREE

9 Moods, Memories and Dreams

- Movement as Mirror

- The Middle of Your Body

- The Emotional Breath

- Move Your Mood

- An Alternative Way

- What Moves You?

- Physical Patterns

- Observing Moods Through Movement

- Shadowing Movement

- Partner Identification Dance

- Movement Metaphors

- Breathing Sounds

- Face Thoughts

- Mask Faces

- Hand Language

- Breathing into Character

- Walking into Character

- Physical Memories

- Memories from Movement

- A Memorable Object

- Moving Your Dream

- Dream Themes

- Dream Fragments

- Summary

10 Learning From Nature

- Stillness in a Landscape

- Contacting the Landscape

- Earth and Sky Breaths

- Walking Through

- Playing with a Landscape

- Changing View

- Body Map

- An Imaginary Landscape

- Landscape Memories

- Happy Places

- Water's Edge

- The Urban Landscape

- Summary

11 The Everyday Life Dance

- Everyday Rhythm

- Making Spaces in the Day

- Tuning in to Tension

- Personal Power and Energy

- Body Image

- Large and Small Spaces

- Revitalize

- Squatting

- Chair Hang

- Towel Massage for Loosening the Neck

- Back to the Wall

- Legs on the Wall

- The Orange Squeeze

- Face Massage

- Brushign Cares Away

- Lying Down

- Grounding

- The Essential Self

- Summary

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

KATYA BLOOM: M.A. and Certified Laban Movement Analyst, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Since 1983 she has lived in London where she teaches movement at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has choreographed and performed her own dance/theatre work for many years, in addition to over twenty years teaching internationally.

ROSA SHREEVES: is a dance artist and choreographer, therapist and writer, author of the books Children Dancing and Imaginary Dances and of a variety of articles and radio scripts. She has a private practice for movement and dance therapy in London and works freelance in the UK and abroad, notably with dance and environmental projects.