Hey!
My name is Mirka Kanerva and I´m a physical education student from Finland.
This semester I did my exchange period in Lisbon and I studied dancing at the Faculty of Human Kinetics. I decided to study dancing because I wanted to improve my dancing skills so that I have more to offer to the students when I start to teach physical education in school. Dancing is a new sport for me because I only started doing it about five years ago but I fell in love to it right away. The best part of dancing is that you can show your motions thru dancing and also forget everything else while you are dancing. Mostly I dance hip hop styled dances but it´s always nice to get new experiences from the other dance styles.
This blog is about my feelings and thoughts that I will have in the Oficina de danca course. I will also write down the exercises that we will do so that I can always go back and read the exercises from here. I will also write little bit about improvisation and contact improvisation. Just the things that I learn from the course.
We had the first class of Oficina de danca II in the beginning of February.
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The main idea of the excercise was that students come one by one to the class room and they don´t know what is going to happen there. Student comes into the room and the others follow her every movement. The idea is that the one that comes to the room has to do improvisation and the others will follow her. Another way of doing this exvercise is that others would do the opposite movement of what the improvisation is.
I actually quessed what was going to happen because the ones
that went to the room before me didn´t come back so it had to be some kind of group
improvisation practise that you don´t know nothing in advance. Even tough I
kind of knew what was going to happen, it was still a surprise. It was also little
bit awkward at first because everybody where just staring at you when you came to the
room and you really didn´t know what to do. I understood that I have
to do some kind of improvisation and the others are going to follow me. For me the
hard part was to think the moves that I want to use because I don´t have that
big material bank of dance movements because I have been dancing only couple of
years. But in the end I guess the main idea was just that you really don´t have time to think about the movements you do and just let it go.
I have been in situations where I have to solve the situation by myself and
have to make my own decisions. I guess that is why doing my own thing wasn´t
that hard. It was also nice to step out from the comfort zone. And I think there is a saying that life begins after the comfort zone. I think that saying works also for dance improvisation. I think that every move is dancing if you feel that it is important to you. I
could have just stand in the room and that would have been dancing. I don´t know why I did that kind of dance what I did but I
guess that was the kind of dance that I am used to do. Also the music was leading the
improvisation and the movements. It was funny to realize that I was doing the same kind of movement all over again and when realizing that I was really waiting for the end of this practice.
For me it is really hard to go close to people because I have
my own personal space and I also think that it is a really Finnish thing also. I noticed that my movement was more away from everybody and towards the mirror. It is going to be really interesting for me when we start to do the contact improvisation. This class was really nice introduction to improvisation. When this was the first practice with the group I think it only works with people that have danced before.
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