INTEGRATING POLARITIES

Using Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis to Facilitate Moving Through Difficult Times. As we look at events in our world, our relationships, and our own inner selves, we are confronted with the power of polarities to derail a process of pro-active involvement in life. Indeed, our Laban/Bartenieff system has a rich tool in the polarities of the Effort factors, Spatial Pulls,and Patterns of Total Body Connectivity.This workshop is designed to give our Laban/Bartenieff community an embodied approach to moving beyond polarity. We will locate a polarities that are currently operative, live into each side through movement, and learn techniques to move beyond that polarity to a larger, more integral perspective. This work will use LMA and Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Creative Systems Theory (by Dr. Charles M. Johnston) as frameworks for the workshop.

CHOREOLOGICAL WORKSHOP - DYNAMIC BODY

Ali has presented conference papers and lecture demonstrations based on her current practical research in the UK at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and also in Rome and Strasbourg. In October 2013, she is invited to teach workshops and to present her current research on recreation techniques in Laban's Dance Theatre works, and the use of Laban principles in contemporary technical training, in Ascona, Switzerland and master classes in Choreutics. A dynamic practitioner, Ali's specialist skills include Laban's Principles and Practice, Choreological Studies, Contemporary Technique, Performance Skills, Choreographic Practice and Teaching Studies, with diverse experience of the integration and application of dance theory and practice.

AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT

Authentic Movement, in its basic form and in the way we practice it today, is a discipline where one moves with closed eyes in an autodirect way, and one observe, witness the emerging movement, and it is based on a particular concentration on the body, deceptively simple and extraordinarily powerful in its effects of awareness. Authentic Movement has its roots in dance, depth psychology, as well as in collective rituals, meditation and creative processes. Its aim is to discover and develop a personal inner witness, that part of us capable of contemplating our own experience while remaining fully present in the here and now of the current situation: in this case, in the iridescent reality of the  flow of kinesthetic, sensory and emotional experience, which emerge in the  a spontaneous, self-guided movement. Authentic Movement is today a discipline governed by specific parameters, used as a tool for psychological growth and creativity.

In this opening workshop, the participants will be led to some experiences of body awareness and movement exercise, inspired to the Laban work and studies, basic to foster awareness skills. And then they will be introduced to the discipline of A.M.

CHOREOLOGICAL WORKSHOP -
ARCHITECTURE OF THE DYNAMIC BODY

The workshop will draw on Laban’s theories and the work of Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop in Choreological Studies. However my particular approach is borne out of my personal questions as a classical dance artist and teacher in the 60’s and 70’s, my continuing research into the pedagogy of the art of dance since the 80’s and my interest in the development of all forms of movement and dance today.
Key to my practice is a personal approach to The Structural Model, a development from Labanotation. Its application and analysis reveals how human movement is structured and how it works. Focusing on the dynamic and choreutic structures will support the observation, identification, and transformation of those elusive movement structures that so often remain unnamed and unseen in the teaching process.
I aim to demonstrate that the naming, seeing and perceiving, controlling, sensing and creation of movement elements support the development of articulate physical responses and articulate and accurate dialogue and discussion amongst practitioners of the movement arts.