Movement, MT and Acting

ckp
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:54:25 +0000

AHHH! I love movement! I just had a great talk with my voice and speech about it, and how it all effects your voice. For example, a pelvis that is pointed towards 6 on the pelvis clock directly pulls a muscle on your collar bone that is connect to your vocal cords!

Also on thing I didn’t really know was that being a really trained dancer (im straight acting) is really harmfull to your body (and not just in the obvious ways like overuse in joints and so on). One of my teachers used to be a ballet dancer, and only discovered years and years later through feldincrist (sp) how much her body was improperly alligned because of it. Feldincrits and the alexander technique are great things to research when it comes to feeling your body and getting in touch with your spine.

Movement to music (no, it is NOT like dance!) is an amazing class I am in. It’s all about impulses. NOT being in your head, just doing things instinctively, things that are not pretty or well done, just getting into a zone where your body is in touch with it’s surroundings and takes directions from that, instead of the brain. It translates to text and improve work amazingly.

AH, like I said. I LOVE MOVEMENT!