Asymmetrical-Motion E-Book

Lucas Condró

• Herausgeber: Continta me tienes
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 35

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Lucas Condró and Pablo Messiez gather in this essay a set of notes on pedagogy and movement, result from their long experience giving workshops on the work with the body.   English version by  Carlota Gaviño .

Leseprobe

NOTES ON PEDAGOGY AND MOVEMENT

 

 

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First edition: February, 2016

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© of traduction: Carlota Gaviño

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Cover design: Marta Azparren

Lucas Condró & Pablo Messiez 

NOTES ON PEDAGOGY AND MOVEMENT

English version

Index 

Introduction

Notes

Exercises

Introduction

Asymmetrical-Motion is a research on movement in the field of contemporary dance.

I have long been interested in two main ideas. On the one hand, the logic ruling independence and correlation of the parts of the body: the possibility of moving each one trying to understand its uniqueness, and then that of moving all of them at the same time while preserving the independence of each one. On the other hand, the ideas of structure and weight as two factors that simultaneously provide the body with movement and agility.

These two ideas revealed to me the asymmetries of the body appearing in movement, something which was already inherent in the nature of the body and which, however, the habits of training had kept silent. Then, I decided that the name of the research was to be Asymmetrical-Motion. Giving a name to the work inevitably changes the scope. It leads the eyes towards some areas, discarding others. It focuses the work and sharpens it.

At the same time, I felt the need to think about the pedagogical questions that had developed in parallel with my practice. What was their specificity, if any? And then appeared the idea of observing to be able to understand; naming that which had been observed to be able to transform the experience into tools; and then taking those tools back to the body.

The possibility of creating together a single common body appeared as well. The aim of generating a certain work logic from a shared object of study. Each one’s reflections will be the tools that allow the construction of that joint knowledge, of that single shared body.

However, if generating a single body is the aim, attention should be focused on neither the teacher, nor the students, but rather on that other body resulting from the group’s research. It is necessary to move the figure of the teacher, to dissolve the hierarchical relationship, so we can shape that other body.

Then I understood that some methodological matters determine the technical results, that the way in which I relate to the material will have the exact measure of what I can understand from it.

I understood that the body and the tasks are mere excuses to establish relationships that will reveal things that I don’t know, that will give me a new relationship with the thing, a new point of view.

Relationships are the place where mobility is.

For two years I formed a group called LAB where, outside the context of the classroom, we investigated some of the specific ideas of the work. This allowed us to go deeper into each aspect of the work and unfold the material.

This group was formed by Natalia Tencer, Pablo Castronovo, Sofía Sagalés, Manuela Pique, Juan de Rosa, Manuela Estigarribia, Lucas Cánepa, Martina Kogan, Valeria Martinez, Paula Reyes and Paula Zacharias.

Individually, each student who went through the material directly influenced the research process, given that the class always worked as a laboratory.

To all of them, thank you very much for the work we shared .

During the process of that research, which explores both movement and the transmission of knowledge, I decided to create this notebook to lay the groundwork of what I have researched so far and to open questions and issues that will surely continue to unfold.

To create this book I invited Pablo Messiez, theater director and playwright, with whom I have developed a long conceptual collaboration for the production of these texts.

Lucas Condró

Buenos Aires, September 19th, 2015

Notes

Every movement generates repercussions.

Movement travels.

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Moving one part of the body is always moving the whole body.

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