Gravity: Charles Weidman

 


 


  Early Studies on Gravity

 Question 1

What was Weidma's main criticism of ballet?

 

Natural Movement Training Ground transitions 

How to get up from the floor without using the hands

Question 2

 What is the point of this exercise?


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Movement Research: Archers

Question 3

 What differences do you observe between the movement of the male dancer and the female dancer?

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Exercise

Students are introduced to the study of gravity in relation to the human body in motion.

Students experiment with their own weight, gravity and how to get themselves down to the floor and off without help from their hands.

 Students explore momentum and how to manipulate their body weight in order to get off the floor.

 Students explore pulls and stresses, balance, fall, recovery, shapes, suspension and rebound

Floor, norm and air, what we call levels, are explored as students fall down and get up. 

A new group phrase comes out of this exercise.



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GRAVITY

Gravity is an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. The closer objects are to each other, the stronger their gravitational pull is. Earth's gravity comes from all its mass. All its mass makes a combined gravitational pull on all the mass in your body. Thus, 

 Source:
What is gravity?

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Gravity in Dance:

The forces acting on an individual dancer create a push-pull relationship between the dancer and the surrounding space. The force you exert on the floor is affected by the direction and magnitude of the force. ... This results in a zero sum force acting on the body placing you in your center of gravity.

Source:
Physics of Dance Movements
https://charlesweidman.wordpress.com/education/


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ACTIVITY
 
Create a movement phrase using the elements of gravity such as:
 

pulls and stresses, balance, fall, recovery, shapes, suspension and rebound


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