Exploring these questions has been Annemari Autere’s quest for the last 20 years. Her innovative approach to movement analysis and artistic expression brought her to consider dance technique mechanical and depending solely on the red muscles muscle fibers, also called core muscles. At the same time she explored artistic expression and how the core muscle’s connection to the emotional nervous system gives life and meaning to the mechanical, basic movement patterns.

Her vision of the muscular system as inside and outside muscles makes her method easy to understand.  She proposes to look at it as a black & white picture. Technique is black, dancing is white. Technique and dancing should be tools for a lifetime of exploring the multiple colors of artistic expression.

The superficial muscles, which contrary to the deeper lying core muscles are easily felt, only serve three purposes: jumping, running and climbing. In Balletbodylogic they are not considered until awareness of the red muscle fibers is understood. Opting for quality not quantity Balletbodylogic proposes tostarts training by simple exercises with specific tools, a small ball and an elastic band. Focusing on basic notions like balance, pushing off gravity and space in the joints, understanding alignment, letting your bones sit and hang as Mabel E. Todd so wisely put it, is enhanced.

Ideal alignment leads to a neutral bodymind. Without superfluous muscular contractions we are free to express our emotions and benefit from effortless and efficient posture and optimal movement potential.

The insight offered through Balletbodylogic can speak to all people interested in mastering a technique, dancers as well as athletes, and those who simply wish to enjoy a body in equilibrium.

How to make ballet - dance technique and artistic expression effortless and efficient?