Goal of Bartenieff Fundamentals
The goal of the Bartenieff Fundamentals is to explore the body through movement and to facilitate interplay of Inner Connectivity with Outer Expressivity to enrich life.
What are Bartenieff fundamentals?
The Bartenieff Fundamentals
Bartenieff Fundamentals is basically movement techniques that pinpoint connections in the body and use them to increase one's efficiency, coordination, and flow of movement.
Upper-Lower, Body Half, & Cross-Lateral connectivities
Head-Tail Connectivity
Body Connectivites
Bartenieff fundamentals focus on these major connectivites in the body:
-All three of these connectivities also follow the "yeild & push", "reach & pull" patterns.
-Effective patterning should lead to a healthy development of an individual.
- Breath
- Core/Distal
- Head/Tail
- Upper/Lower
- Body Half
- Cross-Lateral
-The concept that the head and tail are in a constant and always changing interactive relationship.
-Focuses on the "yeild & push" and "reach & pull" patterns.
-First we learn the "yeild & push" as we are being born, then we learn to reach & pull to access space in the outer world.
Breath
Core-Distal Connectivity
- Key to life, rhythm, and movement
- Reflective of changes in conscious, feelings, and thoughts
- Helps calm you and bring you back to focus
- It helps you get in touch with your own internal state
- Healing of the Body-Mind is directly connected to breathing
-All movement radiates from the core, making your torso the most important part of your body.
-This pattern begins in the center of the body and radiates out through the limbs.
-This pattern of movement begins while in utero, making it a stabilizing pattern for all movement in human-beings.