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Reading session - Ball Games, François Malkovsky Suzanne BODAK, Noëlle SIMONET Born in Czechoslovakia, François Malkovsky (1889-1982) spent his youth in the Carpates. After studying singing in Prague, he discovered France in 1910. In 1912 he met Raymond and Isadora Duncan. These contacts deeply influenced his approach of an art of movement. Malkovsky observed and analysed movements of animals life and nature. These were the basis for his own movement vocabulary. After 1918 Malkovsky worked and developed his “new dance”. In 1950, the dancer became an educator, he taught until 1980. Through his technique and his dances, Malkovsky aimed for a freed body, a "danse libre", which he called an "art of living". The "spontaneous" and "natural" movements do not mean that no studies are necessary. Although it appears as simple form of dance, there are special training and specific exercises to lead to the experience of natural movements. The Ball games, proposed for the reading session are an example of such training. Ball games are a challenge. They require the exercise to be transformed into a game, and participants should remain relaxed even at the risk of losing the ball. The "Bounce a Ball" series is rich; the selected exercises are basic modules that can be developed and associated. In offering a ball, whose only wish is to roll away from the player, Malkovsky was trying to reduce the impact of analysis, which presents a risk of segmenting the motor act; hence his injunction to "play". To find an organic, apparently playful movement. The aim is to learn a specific control of movement, involving the different parts of the body in its totality, through movements in rhythm with the impact of the ball bouncing on the floor. The Ball games are part of a book on Malkovsky "danse libre", edited and published by Suzanne Bodak. The book includes exercises, solos and a group dance in Labanotation, introductory texts, illustrations as well as a cd with the accompanying musics. Notations are by Karin Hermes-Sunke. |
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Suzanne BODAK - Was taught by Malkovsky from 1959 to 1965, training with him She pursued her training with him at his Paris studio until his departure for the south of France in 1970. Suzanne has been teaching Free Dance in Paris and all over France since 1978; she simultaneously worked as a nursery school teacher and adviser with the French Ministry of Education. She took part in the “Dance at school” curriculum, organizing workshops in schools with special needs. |
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Noëlle SIMONET - Danced in Ballet de Nancy, Ballet d'Angers, Théâtre du Silence in works of Jacques Garnier, Viola Farber, Luis Falco, Merce Cunningham, Robert Kovich, Felix Blaska amongst others. After studies in notation she founded in 1997 Compagnie LABKINE, where she restage pieces of the Modern Dance repertory. She is also teaching to children, dance teachers, young professionals and is lecturer in the notation course at Conservatoire National de Paris. |
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