Month: September 2011

Room to Move : A Description of an Exercise

Lying on your back. Leave the skin to do the work of containing, so that the muscles can release and the bones drift apart. Let the body spread into the ground in the way that a pool of oil spreads: from the centre out into the constantly expanding periphery—not pushing, but releasing into all the…
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Spinal Trialogue : Charlie Morrissey, Steve Paxton, Scott Smith email dialogue

This email trialogue took place between Steve Paxton, Charlie Morrissey and Scott Smith following three weeks of working together in London and Brighton exploring Paxton’s movement system Material For the Spine (MFS). Morrissey and Smith had worked with Paxton researching and developing Material For the Spine between 1993 and 1996 and they invited Paxton back in…
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