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10 Cool Elements of Contemporary Dance Bangalore Indiranagar at FLUX
At FLUX School of Arts Bangalore, our flagship course ‘X-Sense’ is a contemporary dance program where our students graduate after 6 months of professional training. So, let us dive deeper into the various elements of contemporary dance through the lens of FLUX.
Here at FLUX, we believe that contemporary dance is the way of life. It is a form of embodiment. This dance is a portal where all magic lies and where your body meets your soul. It is a gateway to creativity and expression through practicing this dance of life.
Contemporary dance has a holistic approach to movement and embraces various other dance forms like ballet and jazz. In fact, it is a modernized version of various dance forms put together. It is free from rigid rules and has its own structure when it comes to movement, flow, and dance.
There are various elements of contemporary dance which help us thrive, and make our movements efficient with ease and flow.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Breath and Body Awareness for Alignment
Breath is a powerful tool when it comes to have a regulated nervous system. This in turn helps us to be centered in our axis and connects our inner self to the outer world. Breath helps in aligning our movements with it, giving a natural rhythm to our body. Our breath helps us in achieving softness, flow, fluidity, and ease of movement. It also fuels our energy and strengthens our mind body connection.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Release Technique & Contraction
Contemporary dance involves release and contraction. Contraction is done through curling, and thus being aware of the space. It symbolizes inner turmoil through holding on and vulnerability followed by release. Release symbolizes liberation, freedom and letting go of the tension through expansion. It largely involves expression of coexisting emotions stored in the body, and letting it out which in turn releases trauma.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Spirals and Circularity
Circularity is a life force, and thus it forces the movement of contemporary dance as well. Through contemporary dance, we explore the circular pathways and our trajectories of movement. It engages the entire body and helps us understand its momentum and alignment to create a visual art through dance. It helps in understanding proprioception as well.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Falls and Getting Up
At FLUX School of Arts, we encourage falling to conquer our fear of falling and failing. We believe resilience is not about not falling but rather about getting up again quickly.
Contemporary dance involves falls which enhance our ability to trust ourselves, making the floor our best friend. The body gets its energy from the floor and gets up with resilience and courageous vulnerability. It focuses on adaptability and change. Thus it grows through the ebb and flow of life and dance to get its stability and balance back.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Suspension and Momentum
Suspension and momentum provide a balance between stillness and movement. Contemporary dance focuses on both these elements. Suspension is about pausing and holding one’s body weightless in the air. It enables us to fly high with our feet up in the air and our hands grounded on the floor. Momentum is about the speed, and the energy as a repel-effect from one movement to another.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Feet Parallels and Turnouts
Parallels and turnouts give a definition to contemporary dance, enhancing its vocabulary. At FLUX these are quite commonly used words in our X-Sense classes. Parallels helps us in being grounded and thus help us in balancing movement. They align our posture and make us come back to our axis, the spine. Turnouts on the other hand help us in expanding our range of movement. They are visually enriching, opening up our bodies through expanding them and enhancing our potential to grow as a dancer.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Proprioception
Proprioception is the body’s ability to understand spatial awareness, of body positioning with our environment. In contemporary dance, we use the floorspace, the environment and the vertical space available to us. Space becomes a huge element in exploring and interacting with one’s creativity, visual art, and choreographies.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Time
In contemporary dance, time refers to following the rhythm of the movement. It’s about sensing the adjustment of speed taking care of how we move to the music. It’s all about exploring stillness, pauses and continuity.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Collaboration and Partner Work
We at FLUX School of Arts grow through collaboration and community support. We are collaborative in nature and believe that we all grow together respecting everyone’s individuality.
Contemporary dance is collaborative in nature as it collaborates with various artists and thus unites us all. Partner work involves collaboration, listening and sensing one another’s movements and state. This facilitates the aesthetic of dance through its movement. Contemporary dance is rooted from various dance forms like jazz, ballet, yoga, physical theatre, martial arts etc. Thus this collaborative approach leads us to explore our truest potential in bodies.
Elements of Contemporary Dance: Improvisation
Improvisation is a liberating element in contemporary dance. It allows freedom, creative expression and attunement to one’s body, giving it a language through dance. Improvisation also encourages to break one’s limitations through expanding movement vocabulary and self-discovery. It involves play, fun, channelling creative blocks and expression.
At FLUX School of Arts, we have a holistic approach in exploring various elements of contemporary dance. We encourage one another’s uniqueness, thus learning and growing from each other and with each other. Our instructors’ body of work has expanded over time which allows all the students to explore theirs. This support and guidance are always available to us from the best of the instructors around at FLUX.
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