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October 03, 2005
Basis of Movement, Stanislavski
After having read "Building a Character" by
Stanislavski, I have to admit that I was more aware of my walking posture and each step that I took.
It is true that "people do not know how to make use of the marvellous apparatus which is their legs." I don't think any of us are aware of the each movement of the muscles or bones as we walk. We simply take it for granted and our minds are ahead of our each step.
Yet,when we do dissect this movement and study it, like Jean-Marc had in our lecture, the movement of the body quite beautiful and the structure of it as it is dissected, is quite grand.
Stanislavski states, "It is important that your attention move in constant company with the current of the energy, because this helps to create an endless, unbroken line which is so essential to our art." He makes us realize that things that is apart of us daily.
I spent the past Summer in Burma, in a meditation center for a month and traveling for two months. There, they teach all of us to focus on all our individual movements. They train us to observe all our actions and intentions that occur in our mind. This reading relates a lot to Vipassa Meditation.
"... you realize that at the foundation of plasticity of movement one must establish an inner flow of energy."
Posted by min at October 3, 2005 02:53 PM