Body-drumming, "the body as percussion" is an art that has existed since time immemorial and has been developed in many different regions and cultures. There are 3 major world-famous troops that brought him to the general public, "Stomp", "Mayumana" and "Barabatuques". Art that links rhythms and movements, body and voice, music and dance. A real junction for dancers and musicians but especially a real pleasure for the human who has always sung, danced and hit in the hands.

In this class we will learn how to make music with our body.

The body offers an unlimited range of movements, but also hides many sounds that we can use as a musical instrument.

Discovering these sounds, the rhythm and integrating them into the movement, enriches our body language and gives the opportunity to simultaneously create music and dance with our body.

All of these exercises and rhythm games will help us develop our musical understanding, coordination, memory and listening to the band.

Le fait de découvrir ces sons, le rythme et comment les intégrer dans le mouvement, enrichit notre langage corporel et donne la possibilité de créer simultanément musique et danse avec notre corps.

Tous ces exercices et jeux rythmiques vont nous aider à développer notre compréhension musicale, notre coordination, notre mémoire et l’écoute du groupe.

 

OBJECTIVES

 

• Discover the body as a musical instrument and integrate its possibilities by creating rhythms and movements.

• Stimulate musical understanding, memory and concentration through rhythm.

• Maximize general and segmental coordination by integrating movement with small body percussion sequences.

• Develop personal and group listening with rhythmic games.

• Improve the improvisational ability of musical language in a rhythmic structure.

• Translation of traditional and ethnic rhythms from different cultures (African, Latin, Arabic) and more current ones like swing, funk or hip hop through musical body language.

• Use of objects of daily life (tables, chairs, wooden sticks, plastic buckets, ...) as tools for musical and choreographic interpretation.

• Creation of a more complex "musical choreography" using a basic rhythm like a red thread while looking for new movements.

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CONTENT

 

• The body becomes an instrument for a musical expression

• Sound directory

• Body percussion technique

• Rhythmic games

• Strategy for attention and listening

• Choreographic Memory Exercises

• Individual and group improvisation

• Cannon polyrhythm

• Non-conventional instruments

• Learning different traditional / modern music from around the world and own rhythmic creation.

"Musical choreographies"

 

METHOD

 

Active and participative. The body is our main musical instrument.

The course is completely focused on musical practice, performance, improvisation and communication, using a wide range of techniques and group dynamics.