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Body Wisdom for Performers
| Semester and Year | FA 2012 |
| Course Number | ARTS-UG1107 |
| Section | 001 |
| Instructor | Robin Powell |
| Days | Tue |
| Time | 6:20 PM - 9:00 PM |
| Units | 4.0 |
| Level | U |
| Foundation Requirement |
Description
Performing artists have a special need to understand the body’s full capacity. Enhanced kinesthesic awareness of our muscles and bones allows us to move and perform with more confidence, safety, and expression. This body awareness course uses Kinetic Awareness to gain greater knowledge of your bones and muscles in motion and at rest. You will integrate kinesthetic experience with factual and visual information, focused attention, movement, and touch. Each week you will focus on one area of the body. You will use directed attention, move the part in all directions, release any held tension, apply strengthening exercises and study the bones and major muscles of that area. Olsen’s Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy and Irene Dowd's Taking Root to Fly are required reading along with selections from Sieg and Adams’s Illustrated Essentials of Musculoskeletal Anatomy .
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Course Type
Arts Workshops (ARTS-UG)
