Italy Secondaria di secondo grado – classe 1ª Dance workshop

1. Body awareness

Anatomy of movement

• Body Awareness: How Your Body Moves, Stands and Breathes – Bones form the frame of the body and meet at joints (hinge joints like the elbow and knee, ball-and-socket joints like the shoulder and hip). Muscles pull on bones and work in pairs: when one contracts, its partner relaxes. Good posture keeps ear, shoulder, hip, knee and ankle in one line. Proprioception is the body's sense of where its parts are, using sensors in muscles and joints. In breathing, the diaphragm moves down and the ribs spread so the lungs fill.