Co-ordination

Co-ordination

1. Skills of balance,control and energy

   • finely tune nervous system
     • Repeated exercises
       • Increase speed
         • Gradual improved skills
       • increase complexity
       • Increase lengh of phase
       • build link between commands and muscle memory
         • memory pictures are stored in the brain
           • movement becomes automatic
             • Dancer becomes more focused on performance
     • nerves
     • Brain
     • receptos & reflexes
     • messages sent through neurons
   • negotioating direction of forces in the body to perrofm complex moves safley and expressivley

2. Movement Blocks

   • specific weakness in musculareture
   • Individual anatomical differences
     • speeds
     • strench & weakness
     • bone lengh/size
   • Stylistic blocks; can't adjust to different patterns and teachniques
   • Can lead to...
     • increased injury
     • imagined injury
     • fake injury to avoid stressful situation
     • loss of flexibility
     • loss of smooth,co-ordinated movement
     • increase in heart rate and blood pressure
     • Long term stress caused by movement block
       • tension
       • depression
       • long term injury
       • anxiety

3. Memory techniques

   • mind build pictures and images
     • remember movement and phrases
       • automatic
   • kinesthetic sense
     • feeling things to sense them
       • remember through doing
       • nervous system
       • touch can help dancers learn where muscles should be lpaced
   • mental rehersal
     • go over movement in the head, recalling images
       • consolidates memory
   • movement memory
     • repeated exercises
       • increase complexity

4. Physical Skills

   • Control of energy
     • co-ordination gives dancer control of body parts
       • style
       • technique
       • centre of gravity
       • dynamics
       • alignment
   • Balance
     • alignment and stibility
       • core strengh
         • being centered
           • centre of gravity
     • directing energies through the body
       • central line
       • through the floor
     • eyes
       • spotting
   • accuracy
     • ability to reproduce movement from demonstation
     • sensitivity to changes in dynamics and spatial oreitation
       • choreographic intentions
       • use of breath
         • control
         • expression
         • less tension= more accurate
     • spotting