One thing that Feldenkrais would stress that many of his practicioners do not is your relationship with gravity. To be unbalanced and afraid to fall is fundamentally to be out of control and insecure.
Feldenkrais was accomplished in Judo, and wrote multiple books on it. I see that his last Judo book, Higher Judo, is now back in print and for sale at Amazon.
As you are dancing, doing any kind of body work will have a payoff of being a better dancer.
Obsessively dance theorizing was how I got into more general movement theory. I’d recommend some dance movement theorists as well—Mabel Todd and Lulu Sweigard.
As for dance, ballroom in particular seems to count as body work in itself. A lot of people have their posture and presentation transformed by 6 months of ballroom to a degree that years of swing or salsa usually fails to achieve.
As for dance, ballroom in particular seems to count as body work in itself. A lot of people have their posture and presentation transformed by 6 months of ballroom to a degree that years of swing or salsa usually fails to achieve.
Ballroom teaches people to take a certain controlled posture. For me that’s not the goal of body work. I think that 5 rythms qualifies more as body work than your average ballroom class.
It teaches people to control their posture, but I wouldn’t say it aims at a posture, as the different dances are not identical in technique and the particular movements they teach.
I know piddley about the 5 rhythms, so I have no frame of reference. Do you see fairly consistent improvement in posture and presentation by those who practice 5 rhythms?
One thing that Feldenkrais would stress that many of his practicioners do not is your relationship with gravity. To be unbalanced and afraid to fall is fundamentally to be out of control and insecure.
Feldenkrais was accomplished in Judo, and wrote multiple books on it. I see that his last Judo book, Higher Judo, is now back in print and for sale at Amazon.
Obsessively dance theorizing was how I got into more general movement theory. I’d recommend some dance movement theorists as well—Mabel Todd and Lulu Sweigard.
As for dance, ballroom in particular seems to count as body work in itself. A lot of people have their posture and presentation transformed by 6 months of ballroom to a degree that years of swing or salsa usually fails to achieve.
Ballroom teaches people to take a certain controlled posture. For me that’s not the goal of body work. I think that 5 rythms qualifies more as body work than your average ballroom class.
It teaches people to control their posture, but I wouldn’t say it aims at a posture, as the different dances are not identical in technique and the particular movements they teach.
I know piddley about the 5 rhythms, so I have no frame of reference. Do you see fairly consistent improvement in posture and presentation by those who practice 5 rhythms?
Unfortunately it took me some time to notice this comment. Still more unfortunate, I don’t have enough data to answer the question.