
If at any point you feel you need more information, we invite you to please visit our beginner level class what is also available here on Udemy, where we discuss the basic principles and concepts which form the foundation of Shifting Roots – AML. For more details, please see the bonus lecture at the end, at Section 10 of this course.
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You should be in good physical condition and be able to participate in the exercise.
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Strengthen the core by engaging the abdominals in the warm-up to prepare for standing, then introduce basic side-to-center torso movements to lay the foundation for the first exercise.
Begin on the floor, activate the core with inhale seven eight and exhale, roll up and down four times; then open to second, fall to downstage, and finish in parallel.
Explore an intermediate dance sequence coordinating exhale core activation, roll up and down, side turns, and reach with momentum from floor to standing through grande plie.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
Learn the basic arms in cannon, referencing the beginner level and Udemy series; start with the left arm, then the right, to chest, second position, and the figure-eight curve.
Guide dynamic torso movement and arm work from cannon arms to demi plié, then plié and relevé, sequencing through first position and second position with diagonal and a figure eight.
Perform a ground plié with a circular torso, shifting left into a diagonal. Move through cannon arms to first and second position, with tendu and relevé, clearing space between thighs.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
Guide the shifting leg to spiral to the floor, slide out, and recover to the opposite corner while the standing leg remains the ron de jambe; repeat with arm movements.
Engage in an intermediate aml dance sequence of half turns to the corner, tombe with brush, cannon arms, flat back plie, and walk back to the starting point.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
Prepare through a warm-up and arm work, then shift through space in the second exercise. Link these moves to the final choreography at the end of the class.
Master mirror-perspective choreography with a five-step sequence starting on the right foot, including a plie fall, arms on the third step, and a cannon into a hang over a cliff.
Execute the second cannon shift with the right foot to the front and back, turn to the starting corner, switch arms, and follow a four-step sequence back to the corner.
From the floor, rise and take four steps, stand on the right leg, back with the left, plie, turn out, switch to parallel as arms sweep.
Move your torso to the right, step on the opposite leg, then the other, perform a ron de jambe to the back, and shift weight with arms up.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
The music used for each exercise/section, is a suggestion. You are free to use any of your personal music as long as it has the same time signature and, very importantly, the tempo.
To join our amazing community, or for more details about our work, please visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/shiftingrootsAML
If at any point you felt you need more information, we invite you to visit our beginner level class, where we discuss in great detail the basic principles and concepts which form the foundation of Shifting Roots – AML. Please find our coupon under the link below:
https://www.udemy.com/course/shifting-roots-aml-dance-class-series-1-beginner-level/?couponCode=BEGINNER1
This Intermediate level course will take the student from the basic principles and concepts found in the Udemy Beginner level course, and will guide them through the next step in the evolutionary process of Shifting Roots – the Alegado Movement Language.
The main characteristics of each Shifting Roots class are the arms and hands working on top of a fluid and shifting pelvis. In the Beginner level class, the arms and the hands work symmetrically. In the Intermediate level, these same basic arm and hand gestures are taken to another level by applying the use of canon, whereby, one arm and hand will start, followed by the second.
The use of canon in the arms creates a physical cascading effect in the entire body. The separate timing of each arm movement, initiates different responses from the rest of the body.
This individual timing takes the body into a more three dimensional exploration of space which, in turn, requires a more advanced response from the foundation (the plié).
In the Beginner level course, the first exercise standing, happens within a relative stationary position in space. In the Intermediate level course, the use of canon of the arms and its resulting three dimensional exploration of space, takes the student into a study not limited to frontal movement. The use of canon in the arms initiates a wider scope of movement which takes the student into a 360 degree exploration of their bodies moving through space.
This new spectrum of movement possibilities creates a greater need for a more sensitive physical response to the body in motion yet, it must be said, this new awareness can best be applied by, first, going through the Beginner level course. In doing so, the body will be better equipped to deal with the new information coming to it from the Intermediate level.