Making Connections: Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals

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Making Connections Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals by Peggy Hackey (2020)
Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1 Personal Memories of Irmgard Bartenieff
Notes
CHAPTER 2 What Is Fundamental?
Patterning Body Connections
Relationship
Change
What Is Fundamental?
Notes
CHAPTER 3 Why Return to Fundamental Patterns?
Returning To Early Patterns To Address Weak Or Underdeveloped Foundations For Movement
The Process Of Change—Some Possible Steps
Steps In The Change Process
Returning To Fundamental Patterns To Facilitate Skill Development For Technical Virtuosity
Returning To Fundamental Patterns To Facilitate Personal Creativity And Artistry
Notes
CHAPTER 4 What Is Bartenieff Fundamentals? What Is Its Goal? What Is Core to Approaching This Study?
What Is Bartenieff Fundamentals?
“…an approach to basic body training….”
“…patterning the body according to principles of efficient movement functioning”
“…within a context that encourages personal expression and full psychophysical involvement”
What Is Our Goal?
What is Core in Approaching the Study of Fundamentals?
Notes
CHAPTER 5 What Are Principles of Bartenieff Fundamentals?
Principles Of Bartenieff Fundamentals
A shortened list of reminders for the 12 Principles of Fundamentals
Notes
CHAPTER 6 Breath
Tuning-In To Your Breathing
Some Situations When You Might Want To Take Time To Tune-In To Your Breath:
Approach To Movement Exploration
Movement Exploration
Movement Explorations With A Partner
Empathy
Group Movement Exploration
Approach To Medical/Scientific Information
Cellular Breathing Within The Lungs:
Cellular Breathing Throughout The Body:
Upper-Lower Connectivity In Relation To Lung Respiration:
Movement Exploration—A Spatial Approach To Breath
Notes
CHAPTER 7 Core-Distal Connectivity
Connectedness: Finding Core to Distal Relationships
Movement Exploration
Partner Work with Core-Distal
Core Support
Nourishing Your Core
Activating Your Internal Muscular Core
Movement Experience
Locating Spatial Support
Finding Core Purpose
Implications Of Core-Distal Connectivity
Notes
CHAPTER 8 Head-Tail Connectivity
Head-Tail Relationship
Movement Exploration With A Partner
Head-Tail Movement Exploration
Using Head-Tail Connectivity To Address Life Issues
Full Spinal Mobility versus Holding Tension
Yield & Push Patterns And Reach & Pull Patterns
Movement Exploration
Head-Tail Yield & Push Patterns
Head-Tail Reach & Pull Patterns
Dynamic Alignment
Head Is Different From Neck
Imagery Exploration—Dynamic Alignment
Still Evolving To Vertical?
A Bit More Information On The Spine
Implications Of Head-Tail Connectivity
Notes
CHAPTER 9 Upper-Lower Connectivity
Homologous Movement
Yield & Push Patterns and Reach & Pull Patterns
Movement Exploration: Yield & Push Patterns
Movement Exploration: Reach & Pull Patterns
Effective Patterning: Phrasing YIELD & PUSH to REACH & PULL
Ineffective Patterning
Using These Patterns in Your Life
Your Lower Body
Movement Exploration
Femoral Flexion and Extension
Flexion: Importance of Iliopsoas
Role of the Abdominals and Back Extensors
Effective/Ineffective Flexion
The Issue of Hip-Hiking
Use of the lliopsoas in Walking (Weight Shift)
Movement Exploration
Extension: Importance of the Hamstrings
“Centered” Standing
Movement Exploration
Importance of the Adductors in Centering
Sagittal Weight Shift
Movement Exploration
Lateral Weight Shift
Movement Exploration
The Rotary Component
Movement Exploration: Rotation
Your Upper Body
Upper Body Areas which May Need Enlivening
Activating the Upper Body
Upper Body Mobility-Stability Is Facilitated By:
Movement Exploration
Movement Exploration
Movement Exploration
Movement Exploration
Inner Characters—Upper-Lower
Movement Exploration
Implications Of Upper-Lower Connectivity
Notes
CHAPTER 10 Body-Half Connectivity
Body-Half Using Color
Movement Exploration
Kinetic Chains
Inner Characters—Body-Half
Movement And Drawing—Body-Half
Polarities
Movement Exploration
Implications Of Body-Half Connectivity
Notes
CHAPTER 11 Cross-Lateral Connectivity
Notes
CHAPTER 12 Integration
Integration—Parts Functioning Cooperatively to Create an Interrelated Whole
Integration—Remembering What Matters and Asking Again, “What Matters?”
Polarities
Integration—Moving Beyond Polarities to Embrace the Whole
Polarities in the Realm of Movement
Inner-Outer
More Polarities
Active Exploration: Moving Beyond Polarity
Mobile-Stable
Function-Expression
Examples of Non-Integral Approaches
Integration—Parts-Whole and Phrasing
Integration in Body Patterning
Fundamentals—An Integral Approach
Notes
APPENDIX A: A Brief Overview of the Framework of Laban Movement Analysis
Body
Sequencing of Movement through the Body
Effort
Shape
Basic Forms/Shapes
Shape Flow Support
Modes of Shape Change
Shape Qualities
Space
Phrasing
Relationships
Notes
APPENDIX B: Concepts Used in Fundamentals
Here Are A Few Concepts
Notes
REFERENCES and RELATED MATERIALS
Index