Sharing good practice has been one of the most important, and interesting, elements of the Shift project. One of the most frustrating aspects is that we haven’t been able to include everything that we’ve learnt in the website resource we are creating. Due to time (and money) we’ve had to pick the “best bits” so…
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Forward, backward, to the side, up and down. This blog is about the last block in this research: locomotion. Time to move through the space in different levels and directions. We divide locomotion in travel and elevation. First of all it is good to know how we define these terms. Travel is the ability to…
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Dear readers, Misiconi Foundation will organize a 3-day festival in Rotterdam on 25-26 and 27th of June. The Mixable Festival is the performance festival for every performance artist. The first edition of the festival is all about talent development. The program consist of performances, masterclasses and talks with national and international guests such as Stopgap…
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Hello again! We hope that you are enjoying all the content that we are offering in our blog, as much as we are learning and enjoying within our block aimed at Locomotion and Elevation. We would like to introduce this blog, starting by quoting the first definition that the project member jointly elaborated of this…
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Ability @ Expressions 2019 Hello and welcome back to our blog. We hope you continue to enjoy finding out about our Erasmus+ funded SHIFT project where we have been developing new approaches to teaching technique. As we are creating such a wealth of material that can be used and adapted to your own settings and…
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Throughout the summer term one of the areas we were focusing on was coordination. Like most dance skills it’s a thread that will run through every exercise. All movement involves coordination. However, until working on this part of the project, I hadn’t ever really thought about developing a specific coordination exercise as part of a…
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In this blog we highlight one of our guest partners, Adriaan Luteijn. He works at Introdans and has been working with a wide variety of dancers and groups for over 10 years. Within the company he has a key and connecting role as a choreographer. Within his creative process, for example, he connects a guest…
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Hello again, firstly thank you for reading this new blog and for your interest in our project! On this occasion, this blog is dedicated to the exchange in Madrid where we will investigate the third block of our project dedicated to locomotion and elevation. We want to share how excited we are and also, the…
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Balance is a difficult topic and theme to explain. For most people it is taken for granted, however not for everyone balance is granted. For some dancers with ADS, hyper mobility, hearing and vision problems this can be a difficult task. It even could cause symptoms that accompany the unsteadiness like; dizziness, vertigo and difficulty…
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Hello! Thank you very much for being back in our blog. We hope that you’re enjoying it as much as we are enjoying this project. At this time, we are developing the second block based on balance and coordination. This block is especially crucial, because it develops skills that are both basic in dancing training…
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