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Nicole

[Q] What’s your name? My name is Nicole Rey. I’m a flutist. Fifth semester student in the music program at UNAB.

[Q] Can you describe how your experience was with movement with Baseworks principles? Well. My experience… I would say it would be “my experiences” because, being also a flutist and also being a singer, it helped me be more conscious of my posture before interpreting and at the moment of interpreting. Because I wasn’t conscious of my body, but of my flute and the technique and the sounds.

So it was very enriching because it helped me, I repeat, to generate more awareness in me and in my body. And that helps me generate a better sound and greater security at the moment of being on stage.

[Q] We did many things. What aspects of the practice do you think were most important for you? I want to highlight two. Above all the posture of the arms and shoulders at the moment of relaxing them. And also breathing. Having conscious breathing at the moment of execution. Both singing and flute, in my opinion this is very important. As I said earlier, it helps me look more confident and transmit more confidence and a better sound too.

[Q] Did you notice any change in your perception after the workshop? Of course. This as I was telling you Asia, yesterday was the first time I applied after the workshop to my flute study routine the posture and also the aspect of breathing. Because I felt before that my shoulders would tense a lot.

I know it was two days. But they were sufficient to notice what I was doing with tension and change it, apply the posture of open arms at the moment of holding the flute. And I felt a lot of difference, a lot of difference. I think if I keep applying it it’s going to be much better.

[Q] Is there something that changed in daily life too? Yes, the truth yes. Personally I think I see myself as a very tense person in this shoulder part. It’s curious because at a certain moment of the day, doesn’t matter which, I say “Baseworks!” [snaps fingers, corrects the posture] … Okay.

And it’s very enriching also in the daily part. Because of that. And that relaxed posture also applies on stage. So it’s very very very good.

[Q] And were the ideas you thought new or interesting? New concept ideas? I didn’t know that about the sympathetic and parasympathetic system. And it’s a concept that should be taken very much into account. Because you say, okay, if I apply this breathing inhaling and exhaling, I know how my body functions and I understand myself more.

As the teacher said, I connect with my body and that takes me to having a better relationship with myself. Not only on stage, but I mean in daily life. So it’s something I didn’t know, and it’s like the concept that stayed most in my mind.