http://www.swingornothing.com/42/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:49:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.swingornothing.com/42/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Rose Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:30:43 +0000 http://www.swingornothing.com/blog/?p=42#comment-11 I REALLY like the idea of not over-thinking steps in dancing. I had this experience today, actually, when learning choreography for a piece I'm going to be in for the senior dance concert at Sac State. The choreographer was having us do a move I had already done many times in the past, but not anytime recently, so my body had to remember how to do it... but until my body recalled the movement, my brain tried to compensate, and it just didn't work. Once I stopped thinking about it and let my body do the remembering, I was doing the move gracefully and without problems. :) Our bodies are amazing if we just let them do what they are designed to do! The idea of ambidexterity scares me a little bit, but I will definitely have to try to pull these two ideas together (letting the body do the thinking and the ambidexterity thing) and see what happens! Sounds exciting. :D I REALLY like the idea of not over-thinking steps in dancing. I had this experience today, actually, when learning choreography for a piece I’m going to be in for the senior dance concert at Sac State. The choreographer was having us do a move I had already done many times in the past, but not anytime recently, so my body had to remember how to do it… but until my body recalled the movement, my brain tried to compensate, and it just didn’t work. Once I stopped thinking about it and let my body do the remembering, I was doing the move gracefully and without problems. Our bodies are amazing if we just let them do what they are designed to do! The idea of ambidexterity scares me a little bit, but I will definitely have to try to pull these two ideas together (letting the body do the thinking and the ambidexterity thing) and see what happens! Sounds exciting.

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