Course: Dance your repertoire, improve your body language credits: 1

What happens when players are nervous during a performance or practice? Of course, they are concerned about playing correctly, but at the same time, their minds can be distracted by other self-demanding and intrusive thoughts. As a result, this over-thinking and fears such as stage fright can produce stress which in turn causes overall body tensions and sometimes even muscular contractions and agitated or blocked breathing. So flowing with the music becomes challenging!
This module is aimed at the performers who wish to grow in their skills regarding musical expression through body language. Becoming aware of our emotions, breathing, and gestures is essential in reaching the goal of the musician: feeling the music, being moved ourselves, and transmitting this to the audience, remembering that music is not only about playing notes.
Do you know how the aristocrats danced Menuet or Courante? Students are encouraged to experience their repertoire through the dance before their performances, to express how they feel through awareness of their body language, and transfer it to their playing.
The students could use this movement meditation to connect, express, heal, manifest, experience blissful frequencies and transcend the boundaries of our consciousness. They will transform their fears to turn control into confidence.
Knowing yourself from the body helps you to better handle your emotions in the face of life's conflicts and develop more skills to deal with any situation of adversity. Having the courage to open up within has its reward: while you identify blockages, you will discover potentials, strengths, gifts, and, ultimately, all the greatness that dwells within you. (Gimnasio del Alma)

Goals

• Dare to express the emotions brought about by the music and connect them with the gesture.
• Become aware of your movements.
• Letting go of the control and flowing during the performance thanks to the dance.
• Connecting movements with musical aspects: phrasing, timing, dynamics, etc.
• Achieve a quality interpretation connected with our feeling.