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[Q] What’s your name? My name is Sofia Coronel and I’m a student in the music program in the singing area.
[Q] Can you compare the experience of moving with Baseworks principles with other types of movement? Normal, daily movement. How was your experience moving with Baseworks? In daily life they always talk to us about “connection with the body,” about trying some postures that perhaps help us relax and so on. But I feel Baseworks gathered all those ideas that were perhaps in the air that they tell us around, organized them and gave like some postures and specific principles that achieve those intentions they tell us but we don’t have like the awareness to do it well or in daily life.
So it’s easier to go to Baseworks, find all that information already condensed, organized into principles and apply them. Because that way it’s easier for us. It’s more understandable and more practical. So that’s for me the experience with Baseworks. That everything that was scattered around on the internet, in teachers, was condensed, reaffirmed with Baseworks.
And it’s for me now easier to think about the postures and principles we learned with you and already achieve those intentions of corporeality, awareness of breathing and so on.
Well as I told you, these principles and movement patterns you gave us condense things we perhaps seek in other places and can be more complex. Here they’re just some specific exercises that tell you: “Look, connect, breathing, relaxation, tension, whatever… you’re there, there, move now.”
[Q] And among the ideas we were talking about what was new and what was most interesting? The new and interesting at the same time… The main pattern from which all movements depart, that, I wouldn’t say tension, but it’s like that connection yes with the whole body, to from there do the other movements.
It’s important because it happened to me that yes I had some tension and pain problems. So this reminds me immediately that there are movements but it’s not necessary to overstrain myself and reach pain, same as tension.
Yes, it happened to me a lot in singing, I don’t know why I tense perhaps here, in this part [shoulders]. And sometimes it even hurt my back. And that was terrible for me because I wasn’t enjoying the singing, which was what I like.
So reminding myself of these positions tells me, start there but you realize it’s not necessary to reach pain. You’re with the body connected but without feeling pain, tensions, nor strange or unnatural movements. You’re there connected and can continue forward well.
[Q] And do you think these movements in Baseworks can help with tension? To relax tension? Of course! Because as soon as I’m connected with my whole body and all my muscles are there in the game, I can do a performance like that from start to finish. When I finish I’m calm, relaxed, without pain. I enjoyed the show, the interpretation, and nothing happened! I don’t leave stressed, tense, tight, no! Because I maintained constant awareness of everything that was happening in my body.
[Q] And do you think these techniques are useful or relevant in song? For singing? Yes. Not only for singing but for daily life, for speaking in public, for absolutely everything. Baseworks is the gathering of all the concepts that were loose in my head, condensed and in a more practical way for me to apply it. And there are no more obstacles or problems of “ay, I have to remember this and that…” They’re simply postures and basic principles.
Well, I’m really very happy about all this that’s happening here at the university, those spaces that are opening. I really feel they help me a ton. Not only as an artist but as a person. My daily life, when talking, expressing myself, my presence as a person, I mean this opens… If I take into account all these little things we’re learning in these spaces, I’m surely going to be a better professional, a better person, artist, everything.