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17.2. Square: music and movement
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Measure 3/8
Tonality: E minor
Total: 128 measures, 1 measure = 1 movemеnt
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MOVEMENT
FP for the exercise: same as SP but palms forwards. After the exercise is over the arms go by the sides of the body. Correct performance would bring the partners back to their initial positions on the circle (from the beginning of the exercise)!
IN PLACE cycle
FORWARDS CYCLE
SP = SP for the exercise.
The left foot moves next to the right one (in the new direction).The body finishes with the quarter turn to the left (90°). 19.2. Agility: music and movement
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Measure: 3/4 |
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MOVEMENT
18.2. Beauty: music and movement
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Measure: 3/4 |
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MOVEMENT
19.1. Agility: text and idea
TEXT
Agility relates to the ability to solve our task as set in exercise 17 “Square” using the “female” approach. We perform softness, tenderness, gentleness, mildness, tact, care, flexibility. We try to be diplomatic, agile, in the language of gesture we look from all perspectives, turn in all directions, arms and hands make undulating movements, fold and touch. Some examples of the soft and flexible approach:
- water, magnetism in nature;
- using mild, kind words;
- in relationships showing mildness, tactfulness;
- approaching an issue by getting around before you reach to the point.
“This exercise begins with fluid movements of the arms and legs, first facing the centre of the circle and then turning with your back to the centre. This exercise is a continuation to the previous one – soft, curved lines are at work. The feminine principle that processes the square is at work here. This is magnetism.” [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.80]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: What are the imahes of agility in the text? Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/ essay/ poem about softness, mildness, flexibility.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration how you/an animal/a plant overcomes an obstacle on the way (a high wall, water etc.) by going around it. Draw and illustration of the exercise.
3. Questions: How would you describe the traditional “female” approach? What are the “female” and "male" qualities in everyone? What can water achieve with its softness and flexibility?
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have solved a situation by being mild and flexible. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine while you play the exercise that you are like a butterfly that can fly over all obstacles on the way.
6. Affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for Agility. For example: I can be mild and flexible.
7. Quotes: Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it (Lao Tzu). Find your own favourite quote for Agility.
18.1. Beauty: text and idea
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IDEA
Exercise 18.Beauty relates to the ability to solve our task as set in exercise 17 “Square” by using the "male" approach. We perform hardness, decisiveness, power, persistence, walking straight forward. We try to walk straight through the problem situation, in the language of gesture arms and hands do not fold. We overcome resistance, in the language of gesture making small steps forwards even when the body is “pushed” backwards. Some examples of hard and straight forward approaches:
- the hard rock, the lightning in nature;
- using direct, and harder words;
- in relationships showing power, persistence, pushiness or being more rude;
- approaching an issue straight to the point.
“The hands, one after the other reach forwards and upwards while the body gently rocks forwards and backwards, from one leg to the other. This movement represents the processing of the forces of the square… This processing is a work of art, a mastery. The lines of the movement are straight. Therefore, we may say that the masculine principle which processes the square is expressed here. This is the electricity.” [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.80]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: What are the images of beauty in the text? Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/essay/poem about hardness, decisiveness, boldness, persistence.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration how you/an animal/a plant overcomes an obstacle on the way (a high wall, water etc.) by going straight forward/through it. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: How would you describe the traditional “male” approach? What are the "male" and "female" qualities in everyone? A painting is beautiful but it took a lot of efforts and persistence for the painter to make it; give other examples where something is achieved with persistence.
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have solved a situation by being decisive and persistent. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine while you play the exercise that there is a strong wind against you but you overcome its power by small steps, although it tries to push you back.
6. Affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for Beauty. For example: I can be hard and decisive.
7. Quotes: Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it (Confucius). Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these (James Whitcomb Riley). Find your own favourite quote for Beauty.
17.1. Square: text and idea
TEXT
The square is a metaphor for a problem situation, some limitation, difficulty, a task in life. This happens at work, at home, in the relations; affects us intellectually, emotionally, our volition; short-term or long-term. In the language of gesture we stop our free movement forwards along the smooth circle. And we start a movement in a small and limited “angled” space, a square, which we cannot leave no matter how long we walk: the initial and final positions match. Like the characters of a fairytale, who have fallen under the power of evil forces, we have to give everything from us, to activate our internal powers, qualities, capacities and talents at work, so that we can help ourselves. Some examples of Square:
- birds in a cage;
- animals limited because of insufficient life conditions: drought, hunger;
- a prison (literally and metaphorically);
- the room as a closed space, when you cannot leave it, for example because of illness;
- an assignment at work;
- a forthcoming examination in the studies;
- difficulties caused by another person.
Exercises 17-21 are related thematically as a group. In 17.Square we have a problem situation, a task. With 18.Beauty and19.Agility we work to solve it using the hard and the mild approach. In 20.Conquering we solve and overcome it. With21.The Joy of the Earth we perform the joy of the achieved.
This exercise teaches us to have the right standard by which to measure everything on earth… The face turns successfully to the four directions of the earth – east, west, north and south – connecting with their energy. The east represents justice, the south – virtue, the north – truth… the west – how truth, justice and virtue benefit man. When the sun sets, then we appreciate its blessing. [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.80]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: Give synonym words or expressions about "problem situation". Write in your own beautiful words a sentence/ essay/ poem about a problem situation/ a serious task you have had.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration to the exercise. Draw the line we outline with our steps while performing the exercise, in relation to the circle.
3. Questions: What are the main characteristics of the square form and can it be found in nature? Do you like problem situations and why? Why is nature so happy in the poem for Square, provided that you perform a person facing difficulties? How many and what daily tasks did you set up for yourself when you woke up this morning.
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have had a serious task to solve/ a problem situation. What was the feeling?
5. Imagination: Try to outline correctly the square form – not bigger or different. Imagine that the oultined square is: 1. a sheet of paper on which your task is written; 2. the room you work in; 3. the garden you work in; 4. the canvass on which you will paint; 5. the desk on which you study; 6. the textbook you have to stud.
6. Affirmations: Write your own positive affirmation for Square. For example: I can cope with my tasks/problems. I outline correctly the boundaties of my tasks.
7. Quotes: Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it (Michelangelo). Find your favourite quote for Square.
16.1. The Sun is Rising: text and idea
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IDEA
We are at one with nature, gaining strength from it. In the first part our arms are the Sun, which rises, we benefit from the solar energies. In the second part, our hands are springing waters, springs, we benefit from the water energies. In the third part we perform the ongoing exchange between us and nature in our lives. The natural processes are the sunrise and the spring gushing forth from the earth: beginning of display of light, warmth, water. In people these processes are metaphor for the appearance of something new, of possibilities, talent, idea, feeling, inspired by the vital powers of nature.
"The arms make arch-like movements upwards and to the sides, and then come back to the chest. Afterwards the hands make scooping movements which imitate the gushing forth of spring waters. The first part represents the process of originating of something new. All solar energies go into the person so that s/he can grow and develop. The second part represents how life-giving forces flow through us like mighty waters". [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.80],
Zoun Mezoun, zoun mezoun: “The whole of our life, all of our life”. Binom Toumeto: “Let it now be so!” [Beinsa Douno,Paneurhythmy, 2004, p.71]
QUESTIONS
1. Текст: Finish up the sentences “If I were theSun… If I were a wellspring…”.
2. Drawing: Draw a picture of sunrise. Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: “The Sun is Me”(Loui XIV): what does a Sun inside us stand for? In Dutch [zunmezun] is “kiss me kiss”: what isthe kiss of nature?
4. Experience: Tell us of situation and experiences when you have receivedstrength and energy by being in touch with nature. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercisethat: 1. Your arms rise up likethe Sun;2. Your hands scoop water from two springs gushingforth by your sides.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation about the exercise. For example: I am like a Sun giving light and joy.
7. Quote: You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search (Maxwell Maltz). Books:The Hidden messages in Water(Masaru Emoto).Find your favourite quotes on the Rising Sun.
15.2. Aoum: music and movement
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Measure: 3/4 |
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MOVEMENT
1 cycle: 7 movements. The cycle repeats 4 times.
Duration: Movement 1: 3 beats (the offbeat, beats 1 and 2 of measure 1). Movement 2: 3 beats (beat 3 of measure 1, beats 1 and 2 of measure 2). Movement 3 (slower): 4 beats (beat 3 of measure 2, measure 3). Movement 4: 3 beats (measure 4). Movement 5: 3 beats (measure 5). Movement 6: 3 beats (measure 6). Movement 7 (faster): 2 beats (1 and 2 of measure 7).
Movements 1-7 make up a cycle which repeats 4 times. Cycles 1,3 start with right foot/arm. Cycles 2,4 start with left foot/arm.
FP: = SP for the exercise.
15.1. Aoum: text and idea
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(Repeat 4 times)
IDEA
- the practice of praying in all religions;
- the meditation practices;
- in art: admiring a picture as a whole without focusing on separate forms and colors.
"When we extend one arm upwards at an angle of 45˚ we receive.. (and) through the leg on which we are supported, we receive.. Through the arm and the leg which are extended down and back at an angle of 45˚ we cast off the impure, all of our accumulated unprocessed and disharmonious energies.. Through the repeated lifting of the arms forwards and upwards and the repeated lifting of the legs, we express the desire of our spirit to reach the heights. One works on earth but one’s inner vision is always directed to the world of the stars." [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.79]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: “Aoum” (also spelled “aum”), “om”, “aoumen” are ancient words which in European languages develop into Amen: expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, "So be it”. Write in your own beautiful words a wish, that ends up with these words.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration to the exercise.
3. Questions: What do you do when you come across an unfamiliar word? Is it possible thatone and the same word has different meaning to different people and why?
4. Experience: Tell us of situations and experiences when you have managed to cast off a disharmonious state. How did you manage that?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise, that with your stretched arm upwards you reach something beautiful and light/ the stars; while with your hand stretched to the back you cast off behind your back everything disharmonious in you.
6. Definitions for Aum (Om) in Wikipedia: (1) The eternal process of birth, life, death and rebirth. The Aum is the Universal symbol of Creation. (2) The sacred syllable of creation, the Word that went forth in the beginning and from which all other sounds originated. (3) Unity between all people, creatures, and things.
7. Quotes. The Earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at hOme - yea, I'm always at Om(Eden Ahbez). The Amen of nature is always a flower(Oliver Wendell Holmes).Find your favourite quote on Aoum.
14.1 Think: text and idea
TEXT
Think right, always think right. (repeat 2 times)
Sustain most sacred thoughts of life that radiate light. (repeat 4 times)
We can manage our thinking process: we can accept the positive thoughts from the world and we can support our own positive thinking on life – people, tasks, experiences. Humans alone can have this conscious attitude, to choose what to think of and how – positively or negatively. In the exercise we perform thinking by staying in one place while the arms make very slow movements; next, the attitude to life is like attitude to its symbol, water on Earth, and we make a scooping gesture; last, the effort to sustain good thoughts is performed with a movement to support something. Some examples:
- for life: I have a positive mental attitude;
- for people: I think of the good in them;
- for my tasks: I think that I can cope with them;
- for difficult circumstances: I think that everything will turn to good.
“This exercise begins with the slow movement of the arms from the right to the left and then back to the right. Then, while walking forwards, scooping motions are made with the hands, followed by the arms pushing outwards as if supporting something. This movement connects us with the world of thought and we enter it. Through this movement, a rhythm is brought to our organism that comes from the sentient world, the world of just and noble thought. The first part of the exercise, with the slow movement of the arms from the right to the left and back again, is the receiving of that which is sent from the world of thought. The second part is the imparting of that which we receive into our lives and activities. [Beinsa Douno, Paneurhythmy, p.79]
QUESTIONS
1. Text: How many times do the words “think” and “thoughts” repeat? Write your own “sacred thought” about life. Finish up the sentence “Life is…”.
2. Drawing: Draw an illustration to the exercise. Considering Roden’s stature The Thinker, make your own project for the thinking person statue.
3. Questions: How can you control a negative thought? Do thoughts influence our feelings and why?
4. Experience: Tell us of situation and experiences when you have managed to think positively irrespective of the circumstances. What is the feeling?
5. Imagination: Imagine, while you play the exercise: 1. that your arms are like two antennas that catch all good thoughts from the environment. 2. that your hands scoop water from the “sea of life”. 3. that you support a wall (your thoughts) stay upright.
6. Affirmation: Write your own positive affirmation for thinking. For example: I can think well. I have positive mental attitude.
7. Quotes: I think, therefore I am (René Descartes). What we think, we become (Buddha). The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory (Paul Fix). Find your own favourite quite on Think.
