Having straight arms when swinging, always bend your knees and legs, point the feet, twisting your body which means always have attitude and when breathing always contract in each movement. Always have coordination with the arms and legs and always have control of the body and your breathing. When your doing your breathing contractions always take control of your breath as you contract. You should always use the core because when doing contractions the core gets stronger which will help with you being able to hold your balance just using the core.
When your contracting you can notice it when your back moves with the ribs for example in the turnouts, and when your in the high release positions you should always arch the back.
The main thing I saw about my self in these videos when I watched them back My main weakness was my timing, because sometimes I do the wrong movement which puts me off and makes me out time with the others. So I need too make sure I go over the movements and get the right coordination with my legs and arms. My main strength was doing the movements really strong and powerful, even though I forgot some moves I still had energy and did each movement full out. All I need to improve and work on is my timing and knowing of my movements, and working on my coordination with my arms and legs.
The Release warm ups are to help us with techniques that are in our Madagascar Nation piece, because some dance movements in the dance piece have release techniques in there. My strengths was doing the exercises full out, adding little details like pointing my toes and using coordination. My weaknesses was my memory of movement and my timing. What I need to improve on for next time is make sure I'm in time with the others and practice the technique over and over in lesson and outside of lessons so that when I come to next lesson, so I know the whole thing without making a mistake.
The principles of Martha Grahams Technique Fundamental principles in Graham Technique include contraction and release, opposition, shift of weight and spirals.You should also be prepared for movement that is dramatic even in the opening exercises because Graham’s choreography is filled with vibrant, powerful characters. In Acts of Light I recognized that there it was dramatic through the contraction, there was lot of extension with the legs and arms. I could see they were using the 2nd position and Crossed legs, and spirals.
Martha Graham May 11, 1894 to April 1, 1991, she was born in Allegheny City later to become part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1894. She was an American Modern Dancer and a choreographer. She has been dancing and choreographing for over seventy years. Martha Graham was the first person to perform at the White House, travelling abroad as a cultural ambassador. She has also received the award for the highest civilian of the US.
Martha Graham was employed at the Eastman School of music in 1925. In 1926, Martha Graham had her own Center of Contemporary Dance which was established. On April 18 of the same year Martha Graham was debuted her first independent concert, consisting of 18 short solos and trios that she had choreographed herself. In 1936, Martha Graham had created the Chronicle which brought serious matters to the stage in an intense way. This has influenced the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Great Depression followed, and then the Spanish Civil War. The dance focused on depression and isolation, which reflected in the dark nature of both the set and costumes.
Martha Graham also had her own dance company. As known she is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century Martha Graham had created a movement language based upon the expressive capacity of the human body. It all started in 1926 when Martha Graham started teaching a group of dancers who had been really influenced with her creative work. This then began the Martha Graham Studio, to continue under her personal guidance for the next 66 years. When official authorization came to dance in 1980 with the formation of the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), it had adopted Martha Graham’s term, “Professional Studio School” to denote independent dance studios that teach to the professional standards.
Martha Graham had choreographed until her death occurred from pneumonia in New York, 1991 at the age of 96 years. Just before she became sick with pneumonia, she finished the final draft of her biography, Blood Memory, which was published afterwards in the fall of 1991.
