Stretch & Mobility
Project Class
- guide journalling
- write how you doing today in 7 words
- list name of people you met this week
- at least 2 word go with them
- how do you feel about this person
- go through every your teacher’s name
- lessons
- how would you describe your classes?
- so far on the course
- The Alexander Technique – the beginnings of process
- https://camalexandertechnique.co.uk/
- About F.M.Alexander
- Frederick Mathias Alexander (1869-1955)
- ‘use of the self’ (1932)
- moved to london in 1904
- ‘lost his voice’ and sought professional help
- became as a voice teacher
- “what does it mean to do the Alexander Technique?”
- “what exactly is his ‘technique’?”
- part1) process
- part2) reaction and presence
- part3) next wee lesson…
Ballet
Play
- <(the) Play is the thing> by play researcher/psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Brown
Play is more than just for fun it is vital.
Dr. Stuart Brown
- play is an ‘altered state’
- Giving signals questions
- when might you ‘give a signal?’
- how do you let someone know you want to play with them?
- what do you do if you don’t want to play?
- Getting signals questions
- when might you ‘get a signal’? from whom?
- how do you know what a signal means?
- have you ever misunderstood a signal?
- Mixed signals
- have you ever experienced ‘mixed signals’?
- has anyone misunderstood your signals?
- Types of play
- body play – physical
- object play – with stuff
- social play – people and collaboration
- rough and tumble – finding the limits
- spectator and ritual – TV, concert, festival
- imaginative – storytelling
- Biology
- Animals
- Neotony : retention of immature qualities into adulthood. “Being childish!”
- History of play
- Personal history of play
- how has this time (COVID-19) impacted the way we play?
- what do you want for your ‘play future’?