From both watching this video I can see how my feet slip in and out of parallel posistion, and this is affecting my knee alignment throughout the excercises. When marking through the movement I need to be really clear on the feet as to whether they are in first or parallel, pointed or flexed and be strict with myself in adhering to these details. Doing more foot and ankle strengthening excercises, such as simple slow rising into relevae and lowering, should also improve my clarity and my connection to the feet.
In the second video I appear generally strong but I can see that I need to fully extend the leg in arabesque posistions through the jumps to present clean lines through the movement and control the armms during the turn but I think this sequences is performed well and I can see myself taking in the space by reaching into the space with my focus and body, and using my centre to help push off the floor into the jumps.
"Developing Listening Bodies in the Technique Class" is an article by Rebecca Enghauser which delves into how we embody movement through the breath, spacial perception and somatically. Her views on how we have become disengaged with our bodies through repeative practice in contemporary technique class are similar to the approaches of the Bartenieff Fundamentals and Alexander technique but as a writer she acknowledges her work not to be ground breaking but more note worthy. She breaks her article down into five subsections:
- Spatial-Perceptual listening
- Kinesthetic Learning
- Listening Through Breath
- Eco-somatic Listening
- Listening through the Creative Process
