Art in Movement - Aim Method
Skill. Transition. Expression.
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Art in Movement is Esteem's developing apparatus-based movement method. Its foundations are influenced by Contrology, but AIM takes those foundations into a different expression of movement - bringing together apparatus work, strength, flexibility, balance, calisthenics, skill acquisition and controlled artistic movement.
Building the Physical Foundations
A significant component of AIM is bodyweight strength. Calisthenics uses the body itself as resistance, requiring you to control and move your own body weight through space. Within AIM, this may involve developing the upper-body, core, wrist and shoulder strength required to support yourself, alongside the balance, mobility and flexibility needed to access more complex positions.
Flexibility is developed alongside strength and control. Rather than treating flexibility as an isolated goal, AIM considers the usable range of motion required for a skill and the strength needed to control that range.
Skill and Transition
Acquiring an individual skill is only one part of the method. Transition is fundamental to Art in Movement. We explore how one position connects to another, developing the control required not only to achieve a movement, but to enter it, leave it and eventually connect individual skills into longer, expressive movement sequences.
Why Aim is Delivered through Workshops
Art in Movement will be delivered through dedicated workshops rather than conventional weekly classes because skill acquisition takes time. Strength may need to be developed, flexibility may need to increase, and balance, mobility and control need to be established before more complex skills are approached.
The workshop format gives us time to break individual skills down, practise and refine them with focused instruction, understand their physical requirements and work progressively towards them. As skills develop, workshops can begin exploring transitions, sequencing and artistic movement pieces.
Controlled. Disciplined. Expressive.