Bakó Tamás | 2015 Ősz

Dear Janó!

Being new in a real unused sitauation, starting a new school, you have naturally a lot of difficulties. Like the teaching language, the vast amount of information on many topics, or the charging quantity of the daily physical work and the daily travel to the school. It' all very demanding. As a young man you have already a lot to do. It seems that some parts of it are easier and some are harder for you. You look persevered, you are here. That's very positive! But often you look like someone who dosen't really know what he has to do. Language and physical barriers are holding you back. You need more strategies to comprehend and catch information. Copying is one of them, and it's a good one. And currenly this is your one and only tool to follow what is going on. And actually it works, by now you showed some improvement on remembering the sequences, understanding of where does a movement starts and finishes what is the actual movement. But you will need more understandig in order to be able to make a fundamental development. It's also all very new to your body. You have to make a lot of physical and somatic work to develop skills what takes to build a dancers body. That's a long process. It means that you have to work seriously and assiduously to get to know your own body and it's capacities in order to make a change on it. Go!

Ha nehéz lefordítani, keress meg!

 

Dear Anett!

You had a good start. You have brought physical and learning skills with you that were developed and acquired before. These helped you to find ways to adapt yourself to the working style, the vocabulary and the ideas of the technique. In one way it seemed that you felt safe in the begining. You had the confidence that it's working out. (It will!)  But language is an issue. Not really understanding the instructions you have lost the possibility to be able to make difference between what you already know and what is the actual task. So now you are using old patterns instead of really trying to solving a problem. Forms, movements may look the same or similar to you but in the depth they are structured differently, made out of something else. You begin to realize that therefore you started to loose track. Things are more confusing than familiar now. That's okay, it will change! But in order to move on from this place you need to have better english and sharpen the skill of differentiation. Go!

Ha nehéz lefordítani, keress meg!

 

Dear Orsi!

You seem clearly devoted and focused in the classes. You are there steady and attentive. I see you working on lots of things. The attempt to refine articulation and isolation is very visible. You grow a skill of differentiation, the coordination of the parts in relation to the whole are seemingly taken care of. You became much more coordinated, symmetries, lines and shapes are formed with more clearence and understanding. Having more clues on the relationships of the body parts were also forming your posture. The whole connection of the upper and the lower body is more guided and defined. And you are also better with working with the right effort, the realizations on the scale of states of the body tones makes you more relaxed and efficient. You made lot as a begining. Bravo! Try to keep that going!

Dear Julia!

You worked very well in the classes! You look very decided and motivated. Seemingly learning is easy for you. You are attentive and focused. And at the same time you enjoy what you do. That takes you far. Your movements are engaged with lots of qualities. You seem to be curious and open to any new ideas. You clearly ensure space for experience. And you have an availble body what can easily take and build in new information, that's poitning forward. You also support your group a lot. You have a very positive personality, someone who can always create a nice atmosphere. It's great to work with you!

Dear Hanga!

Unfortunately you missed most of the classes in this period because of your injury. But when you worked you showed interest and endeavor. And you watched when you couldn't participate, wich is a good study in a way. These are your firts steps. Like any newcomer you have to face things you're not prepared for. For this reason you have to be very open for all the tiny things, any information to be able to correspond, learn, make a change. Your stature with your height and bony structure is a special case. About developing and optimizing an efficient posture and capable body you will have to find personal formulas of reception, framing and moulding. And you will have to work hard on the basics to establish a solid techical ground to move on. Good work!

Dear Petra!

You worked very well in the classes. You certainly love to work, you are balanced and diligent. You always attempt to compete all that tasks with care and discipline and at the same time one can see your playful character and cheerfulness in your activities. That combination makes you progressive. I think you made quite some change on posture, you built more abilities on regulating the tone of the body. I sense clearer structures with correspondence and adequate body tone. It seems to me that your movments are more full.     You get on well with your classmates. You always create harmony around you. I think we all appreciate that!

Dear Marina!

I see potential and struggle at the same time. About the struggle you'll have to find out what are the difficulties and how to overcome them. Work usually helps. You just started something that is relatively a new territory for you. But you are surely a professional student, you are active in listening and reflecting. Your intellect is fully there. And one can see that you have a love for moving. You have your physical potentials too. You have a body what is engaged with the capacity to take input and information. You have the availability to frame your skills into a steady dancing practise. You missed quite some classes, I think if you would try to be there all the time as much as possible would make already a change and more balance. Hopefuly you'll find your ways soon to establish your daily comfort and work!

Dear Viktor!

You did a good job in this period! You have natural gfts and worked out skills in dance. You have remarkable qualities like being dynamic and quick, you are a good jumper and pirouette-er. But it's not only gifts you are a motivated worker, you can work hard for the things you want to achieve. I think the most new for you in this class were the qualitiy of the release work and the vocabulary. It took a bit of time to get familiar wtih the logic of the way of working with gravity trough release and the support of the bony structure and its momentum. But lately you started to elongate into your movements and make enough room for suspension and impulse. Carry out a structure that is corresponding with the idea of releasing and opening at the same time for locomotion. You have a better understanding of the logic and the matter of the sequences by now. 

Go on with unearthing more for youself about this experiences.

Dear Shiraz!

Nice work!  You were very attentive and devoted in the classes! You have a nice way of taking your time to understand and acquire each task. You attempt to make a firm grip on the things as much intellectually as physically. The vocabulary of the class is not alien to you. You understand how is the shape of each movement is structured but in the future you will need some more precision and awreness of the energetic build of the movements. Working with gravity trough release and the support of the bony structure and its momentum is claiming for room for suspension and expansion to have dynamic connection of the down and the up. The readiness of going to any direction is made out of a ceartin tension, what has a specific energetic level. It is something we have to explore more.

But you bring lot of energy to the group, you can voice your questions and viewpoints, that supports the work and the people a lot!

Dear Aiste! 

I think in terms of coordination and posture work you made quite some improvement compare to the previous year. You are also better by now of remembering material and sequences. But there's still a lot to do on understanding details and realizing conections (coherence) aiming precision grasping the differences of qualities and executing permanently what you already know. Please, less getting lost! You have nice working attitude I see devotion and engagement that's one strong backup what you have naturally let's keep that and trust a bit more! 

Dear Ildikó!

There has been some change starting last year what helped you to relax and work more steady. That was a promising change, unfortunatelly I see again less confidence in the classes. Altough you are one of the oldest here and you have a lot of knowledge of the know-how of the scool, in my experience you pull back again. That's not helping you of opening up, reviewing what you know and don't know, trusting of the experiences of the work you've done here before. Maybe the language issue is part of it. I think you have to listen more to your body because by now it does know a lot more than what you think of it (yourself).

Dear Judit!

I see improvement and hesitation at the same time. Last year there was some cahnge starting about your personal learning strategies. You made an attempt to understand of what are the elements of learning and acquairing a material in one of your research. As I remember you mainly learned about focus. This year I sense that you can employ this experience. Your work is more steady and clear. Time to time you are really focused and have the ability to grasp the details and apply what you already know. Great! But I see the opposite too. Getting lost when something is new and loosing track of focus, being somewhere else. How is english?

Dear Kata!

Apperently you fancy motivation and you like to work. You are better with learning and understanding material and sequences. But there is always a little rush when you practice. Take time to understand the doing and the time of the doing. Posture work and alignement is very necessary in your case. Where there is strength there is weakness and vice versa. It takes time of understanding and harmonizing connections and lines of the body in order to fashion different approaches of the body. Altough I see the work behind please take that serious!
Keep up the good work!

Dear Ketlin!

Altough you are motivated and like to dance in the classes I feel a lot of uncertainty. I know english is an issue yet. But that's not a problem. You'll learn it. Somehow the movements are small and not enough bold and brave. They stay in a small range so your body becomes careful therefore you never really try and experience things. Challenging yourself and experiment is actually missing from your practice. You will have to fancy some braveness and initiative to be able to try other aspects of the movements and experience the reality of techniques. It is time to work more on the embodiement of the substance of forms movements and dynamics.

Dear Anna!

I feel progression and fluctuation at the same time in your perfomance. I think you know yourself as a hardworking person. And actually you are but something is missing. Time to time you seem less motivated and only the potention is there but not available for you. What could be the reason of it? Maybe it's motivation, maybe it's strength-energy, maybe it's question of temper. Whatever it is you have to make it clear to yourself of what do you want and where you are heading to. Then confidence and trust can grow. And the potentions becomes reality. Even I point out this problems I have to add I'm more content with your work this year. Most of the time I saw the attempt to be involved and steady in the work. Making dance on another level.

Dear Evelin!

Focus and understanding is a big question in your case. Gladly I see clear motivation and growing confidence in your practice this year. But often when exercising you do something else in the sense of not being exact and detailed enough. It happens many times that you change the elements of an exercise or make a mistake about the order or mix up the sides. Sometimes you don't even realize it or when you do it, it blocks you. It seems that concentration is not there all the time but maybe it comes from not understanding the exercises fully. Maybe you don't listen carefully or you can't. You should investigate where at what moments your awreness is sliping off. The other problem is posture and alignement. You have a very different understanding of how to coordinate and harmonize the nature and the efficiency of the body and it's actions. You always have to keep functionality in mind. You already have met with them, try to apply it!

Dear Jasna!

Progress is there. You have a better understanding of what are the problems you are facing. You know more about the problems of body awreness, postural difficulties, strength, efficiency, execution. For that reason you need to have new ideas to reaccess these topics to be able to make a change on them. You will need more understanding and efficiency on realizing conecctions in the body, you have to know more about your own antomical built. You have to also be able to make clear difference between what you are doing and what you are thinking about it or what is your feeling about it. Precision and reflectivity is very necessary in acquiring a material in it's complexity. On the other hand I see that some new elements are growing like a bit more softness in the body and connection to the ground. I also see that you enjoy the classes now. That pushes you in a good way. You have new experiences and the feeling of something works now differently. And that's true. Find out more about it!

Dear Dóri!

As I see this year you are more decided. You seem motivated and steady. The result is very visible. You make a lot of progress. You are more confident in possesing the materials and the informations, the inconvinience known from the last year luckily falls out. There is clearity in posture, body and spatial awreness, there is also a strong attempt to make the right amount of effort and control in making movements. You also become familiar with the logic of the vocabulary of the classs, grasping the qualities successfully. You seem very much in tune and stable now. Keep up the good work!  

Dear Mary!

Unfortunately you were missing a lot from my classes in this period. And when you were there generally you seemed tired and weak. I hope you'll find your way back soon to work with full thurst! Actually it started a bit in the last weeks. Last year you made an outstanding progress. And we all wish that it goes on so dynamic as it began! My last notable memory of your work happened in the creative week. You were very much in tune consistent and convincing. Clear in posture, body and spatial awreness, you had strength and you were familiar with all the vocabularies. Try to get back to that level finding continuity finding your harmony! Go!

Dear Felícia!

As I see you struggle with some weaknesses, you became very open and flexible but the muscles are seemingly not enough strong to hold you. I see this in the use of alignment I feel that some of the basic idea and information is missing from your practice. The use and the placment of joints are not always in controll. The reason might be the few muscle capacity and the lack of awareness in particular places. I sense as well some difficulties about the logic of the sequences, often you mix up the sides and the orders. You need a bit more concentration and attention on grasping information and realization. On the other hand I think you have all the ablities, intellectual and level of knowledge by now to piece together all the information about doing dance and operate it on a higher level. Good work! 

Dear Réka!

Troughout the last years you acquired a large scale of abilities in dancing. Your work became mature. The new phase of your development started already last year. New qualities has appeared and built in to your skills.You craft your movements with precision and ease. They are breathing and they are full with body and spatial awareness and full with dynamics! Especially you made improvement in releasing, possesing steady elasticity dynamic and controlled tonuses. You skilled totally the logic and the vocabulary of this class. You use this knowledge and make it with the wish of still challenging yourself, enjoying the work. Bravo!