Alice's Movement Studies

Wow a blog! i'll try anything once. Typing instead of talking to myself will make a change.
So I plan to put down my thoughts and discoveries as I progress through my masters in the hope that I will learn from what I write and be able to share my experiences with anyone who wants to follow me.
"I'm going away to study movement"  is usually greeted with a luke warm response from friends, family and colleagues, which is partly because the term movement doesn't mean alot.

My quest for the next year to define the term movement for myself.
I know that I am happiest and at my most expressive when I am moving.
I know that I am deeply moved by the movement of others.
I now that I am fascinated by how our bodies change and respond to life and how resilient and unique they can be.
I know I think through movement or at least I find answers in motion.

So far on my Movement Studies course at Central School of Speech and Drama I have been told that my systems of movement will be interrogated in order for me to learn about what I know and gain a deeper knowledge of what I want to know.  This really excites me!
At the beginning of this journey I am asked to consider my movement heritage and the factors that have informed my path so far. To consider the environment that I grew up in, my early memories of moving and the stand out moments of inspiration that may have brought me to where I stand now. This task began as many do, a little forced and without much joy, however it grew into a topic that I can't get out of my rather apple shaped head. The idea that a chain of seemingly random events have been joining together to form a passion from deep within, a Alice shaped jigsaw of how I have literally moved through my past is giving me great pleasure and clarity at this stage in my life.

Enough for tonight... off to plan my commute avec brompton fold up bike!