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Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea, Mexico July 29 (Arrival Day) - August 5 (Departure Day) 2007 |
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SESSIONS Mixed session - paper with workshop A prismatic body in the path of shape MARTINS, Marina – Brasil The application intends to discuss how the flow effort can push the body of the dancer/actor to integrate the space in order to create shapes of a scenic discourse. The Effort-Shape combination is the point of departure of this theoretical/practical investigation, looking for the possibilities on the path of shape by the flow rhythm conducted through the body. The experiment is driven by the Laban’s movement theory considering the intersections and articulations between the four movement components: body, effort, space, shape. They can be explored as dynamic elements of expressivity by different meanings and points of view. Therefore, the connection with the psychological aspects of effort and the consciousness of the physical condition attached to the earth builds the tension between body and space creating shapes of the desire and imagination. Marina Martins, PhD/Ms., is a professor/ lecturer in the Body Art Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). As an independent artist has been writing, choreographing and directing theater, dance and performance. All these activities are infused by her earlier Laban Studies. In 1979, she became a co-founding member of the Actors Dancers Company of Rio de Janeiro, performing, investigating and collaborating with director/choreographer Regina Miranda, CMA, with whom she studied LMA and Bartenieff Fundamentals. At the Laban Meeting 2002 [MAM/RJ], in addition to present the paper Resonance echoes and reverberations: the sacred experience in the scenic body, she took classes with Ellen Goldman, John Chanik, Lesley Powell and Martha Eddy. Last year presented the paper The fluid path of expressivity [2006] at the Bratislava in Movement: international festival of contemporary dance/ Laban for the 21st Century, in Bratislava. An active researcher wrote two thesis that interweave dance, literature and theater: Suite Portraits of Salome [2005]; Dance through Literature [2000].
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