Duncan: Arms Flow and Movement Ideas
Question 4
What does focus mean in Duncan technique?
Question 5
How do focus and flow relate to the solar plexus or center of the chest?
Question 6
What does Duncan virtuosity mean?
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Activity
Working with light fabric individually.
Throwing fabric and grabbing it before it falls
Couples, exchange fabrics as they are thrown
Let go of the fabric, and now use your arms as if your are throwing fabric.
Activity
Walking across the space.
Directions
Emphasis on the meta-tarsus
Using arms with random movement through the space.
Activity
Moving across the space
running low impact on meta-tarsus
running throwing fabric with right hand
running throwing fabric with left hand
running with both hands until experiencing momentum
running lifting right arm and leg
running lifting left arm and leg
running lifting left arm and right leg
running lifting right arm and left leg
turn, step, skip with the right foot
turn, step, skip with the left foot
waltz from side to side
waltz from side to side using arms
Make Up Students
Pick 8 moves among those listed above and make them part of a dance phrase.
Record and post your phrase on Discussion Board.
Students' Work
Jordan Williams
Her goal for women’s dance was that the body and soul would grow so smoothly together that her movements would become natural. Additionally, these harmonious movements would express the woman’s soul.
Transcendentalism influenced her dance because she was inspired by the view of spirituality as all encompassing and coming from nature.
Focus and flow relate to the solar plexus because focus comes from the center of the body, through the limbs, and then flows into space.
Duncan virtuosity means all of the focus possibilities including, the focus of the eyes, the focus of the solar plexus, and the focus of the center of the chest. Additionally, virtuosity is how one shifts and changes from one focus to another.
Camryn Spector
1. Her goal for women’s dance was that the body and soul would grow so smoothly together that her movements would become natural. Additionally, these harmonious movements would express the woman’s soul.
2. The ideal person in Ancient Greece was an Olympic athlete who was also a philosopher. This ideal person in Ancient Greece fits Duncan’s model of a dancer because it focuses on the harmonious relationship between the mind and body. Duncan believed that women should be natural and a woman’s body should not be veiled by costumes. People in Ancient Greece were very natural and dressed in minimal clothing, like togas.
3. Transcendentalism influenced her dance because she was inspired by the view of spirituality as all encompassing and coming from nature.
4. In Duncan’s technique, focus doesn’t only mean focus in the eyes, but focus through the body.
5. Focus and flow relate to the solar plexus because focus comes from the center of the body, through the limbs, and then flows into space.
6. Duncan virtuosity means all of the focus possibilities including, the focus of the eyes, the focus of the solar plexus, and the focus of the center of the chest. Additionally, virtuosity is how one shifts and changes from one focus to another.
1-She believed in dancing as a way to express ones spirituality and soul. She also believed in dancing with rather minimal clothing to express her body which was frowned upon during that time period.
ReplyDelete2-They wore white and less clothing to express their movements more. They also were very expressionist in the way they danced in the piece.
3-Im not too sure
4-Focus means not technique but to channel our movements from the center of our body and work our way outwards into our space.
5- When we focus we allow the energy of our movements to flow from the solar plexus to then the outer body, our limbs, then leaving the limbs to space.
6-It means the focus of controlling our energy and flow and letting it go.