The Feldenkrais Method® is often utilized by dancers to enhance their movement capabilities and overall performance.
Dancers may benefit from the method's emphasis on refining body awareness, exploring new movement possibilities, and improving coordination.
The Feldenkrais Method® can help dancers develop a deeper understanding of their movement habits, allowing them to discover more efficient and expressive ways of moving. The method's focus on subtle, mindful movements can contribute to increased flexibility, balance, and the prevention of repetitive strain injuries.
Many dancers incorporate The Feldenkrais Method® into their training regimen to complement traditional dance techniques. Sessions may be tailored to address specific challenges or goals that dancers have, contributing to their overall skill development and creativity.
But how does the Feldenkrais Method® enhance the creativity of dancers? How does it affect choreography?
Dancers who have completed Feldenkrais training and are now dancers, choreographers and Feldenkrais Practitioners say that they have developed the ability to feel and show a continuum of movement in their choreography with enhanced expressivity and power. They find that the Feldenkrais Method® has offered them a tool for exploring each movement feeling a deep contact with their expressivity and talent having deeply understood the language of their body.
In doing the Feldenkrais Method® lessons they develop a much deeper internal feeling for movement so that in their choreography this internal feeling is a guide to the process of developing a dance so that they can slowly rely less and less on external pictures and images.
In the creative process in general I think that the Feldenkrais Method® has an impact on the ability of a dancer breaking free of habitual restrictions, patterns of thinking, patterns of movement and therefore the creative process is inevitably more fluent and enriched.