Rolfing® is a dynamic method of hands-on bodywork and movement education that helps tango dancers find better balance and ease of movement. Improved body awareness and coordination improve dancer's quality of movement, leading to more fluid and elegant movement.
Pain, tensions and postural imbalances caused by dancing tango can be relieved, balanced and aligned by Rolfing so that dancers can more easily find their equilibrium and inner axis.
Rolfing Movement Integration is a system of movement education based on Rolfing principles.
Through an educational process of specific exercises, dancers are assisted in establishing a new understanding and heightened awareness of their bodies and their inner habit patterns.
This holistic approach brings together awareness, coordination, structure and psychology.
Goals include:
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- developing the body's "natural expansion between the sky and the ground": the opening and orientation of the feet to the ground, as well as the opening and orientation of the arms and hands to the space around the body, create a better connection to the outside world while supporting the inner space.
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- deep, full breathing capacity and a natural rhythm of the breath movement in all dimensions of the ribcage (front, back and sides).
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- opening and orientation of the head towards the sky, to become upright easily and support the back.
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- awareness of the body’s core, the orientation around an inner centre will help to master effortless an upright posture and graceful movements.
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Rolfing Movement and Tango
Rolfing can help dancers learn and improve many tango movements and techniques such as:
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| - projection |
| - spiral movements |
| - to use and find your center axis and balance |
| - to use the ground and the space |
| - to dance with a partner without losing sense of yourself |
| - to have free legs |
| - to find more freedom of movement in boleos, ganchos, changes of dynamic, etc. |
| - to have good grounding to release the lower back and pelvic floor |
| - to find more comfort and stability dancing on high heels |
| - to move more freely in close embrace, more dynamically and easily in open embrace |
| - to be more comfortable while dancing so that you have more freedom of expression |
The focus is to develop an internal awareness, and a continuous curiosity to discover one's body and its movements!
This leads to a change in the perception of one's body, to a more harmonious coordination of the individual muscles and muscle groups, which leads to more economic movements, an increased mobility, and to finer, more elegant movements in the Tango.
Some articles on Rolfing, Tango and Dance:
- Tangodanza (de): Rolfing oder „Das Bindegewebe ist das Organ der Form“
January 2008 [PDF] |
- Dancing Times Magazine (en): "Dance Health - Rolfing"
March 2009 [PDF] |
For more information, please visit our Rolfing website:
www.rolfing-md.ch.