Movement and alert body signalizes Team: Henrique Meyrelles henrique.mrm@hotmail.com Julia Sá Earp de Castro juliasaearp@gmail.com Social Group: Teacher Glória Rezende Leblon Arts center Rua Gilberto Cardoso, s/n CEP:224421-050 gloriarezende@ig.com.br Tel.: 7897-5443 We accomplished this project at the Núcleo de Artes do Leblon, at Gloria Rezende’s acrobatic class. The activity is a solo acrobatic class for all the different ages present in the Núcleo., without any age restriction, the class usually has around 20 students. The class always starts with some relaxing and stretching exercises, fallowed by group activity involving acrobatics movements. Both space and students are usually divided. Putting the students in different groups and having simultaneous activities helps the teacher organizing the class. After having collected Gloria’s vocabulary universe we came to our project theme: “Acrobatics that experiments movements with the attentive body.”’ We are able to connect this sentence with all the activities that we have been observing in Gloria’s class, because she’s always looking for exploring the experimentation of exercises, proposing new challenges to her students. That demands the focus of the student attention toward there own bodies. One of the common activities that takes place in Gloria’s class is a sequence of movements that the teacher instructs the students to realize. The sequence consist in acrobatics movements such as: rolls, hand stops and others. After this observing stage, we came up with the concept of our object, witch is underlining the movement focusing the attention into the body. With that in mind we sewed up elastic tubes made of viscolycra in five different sizes, making reference to five parts of our body : legs, shin, arms, forearms and waist. We sewed it all up in a overlock machine. To generate the junction of these tubes one with the other, we’ve made plaits, using ribbons from the tube. And 18 little bags made of Brim, with viscolycra’s shams, in three different weights: sand, seeds and cotton. Gloria uses the object in many different ways, always adapting to the proposed activity. For example she uses it to underline children body parts, connecting two children, using as an obstacle and in any other suitable way. Henrique Meyrelles: I learned about people to design a more humane vision of this practice, always looking for better coexistence between everything and everyone. Julia Sá Earp: The experience of the project served to clarify the importance of human relations, and how each stage of the project done, responds to a clear explanation of how to learn to see. Thank Julinha we move through this process together, in which everything was so right, it generates in me a certain peace with everything that can be done. I thank Henrique for making this project together with me, helping to make this project a task to be performed satisfactorily. Thanks to Gloria in this project, created a confidence in this approach to design. Which proves that the simple paths and are further from the concrete form, arise from extensive experiments, and it is this result that has more creative potential. Discipline: DSG 1002 Class: 1AE Teacher: Ana Branco e Vicente
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