Course Description
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – EMBODIMENT AND EXPRESSION FOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen – EMBODIMENT AND EXPRESSION FOR MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
This DVD was filmed at a one day workshop with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen at the San Francisco Community Music Center of San Francisco (SFCMC). It presents selected Body-Mind Centering ® principles of embodied anatomy and their relationship to movement and music making/singing for creative expression.
Through movement, sound, touch and mindfulness, this video explores:
- How to use the body effectively to produce high quality musical performances.
- How to improve breathing, tone, coordination, strength and technical proficiency.
- How to use the 3-dimensionality of the pelvic, thoracic, and vocal diaphragms for fuller expression and volume.
- How to enrich the expressiveness of the music and sound by engaging organ mobility and support through improvisation.
- How to engage the dynamics of perceptual processing.
- How to be fully present and comfortable in your body while performing.
Two discs; 3 hours, 45 min. English subtitles.
Why participants attended this workshop:
-I’m here today because I’d like to find a way to really feel the music and not just produce it mechanically, as I was taught. Angeline
-I came to this workshop because I want to learn techniques on how to become a more efficient musician and how to connect the mind, body, and spirit. Carla
-I’m curious about mind-body-somatic awareness fusion awareness with music, vibration, sound and all that.. Erik
-I’m looking to be more relaxed and expressive in my performance. Amelia
-I would like to breath and live more in my body. Paul
-You look at things in such a unique way with such a unique perspective, that this is definitely one of the most important parts of the training that I do for myself. Rebecca
-I’m looking for more freedom in playing, and clearer internal connections. Joe
-I do mostly improvised music so much of the time I’m playing my body. So I guess there’s no end to things you can learn about your body that can transmute into the music. Ron
-I feel like I get to explore so many different ways of connecting to myself with this work and it helps me really understand the world I’m living in too, in creative expression. Angela
-I’m a nervous performer and I’m also studying somatics… so I thought this would be a good bridge for me to bridge the music world and somatics and all those internal nerves that happen for me. Rosa
-I originally started getting interested in somatics because I injured myself touring a lot. Emily
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