This research aims, through the movement principles of the Body-Mind Centering®
(BMC) method developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, at studying the Vestibular
System and its connections with body balance. It researches its possible
contributions regarding the motor development and its qualitative implications in
gestures and actions towards acting and creation in performing arts. Since body
balance is due to the interaction of three systems: somatosensory, visual and
vestibular, the Body-Mind Centering® method is realized as relevant in this study,
as its principles provide an anatomic experience of different body systems, favoring
the recognition of the vestibular system action in motion. This leads to
understanding how we wisely cover the senses in the body, and how these senses
relate to perception and motion development. This research is intended to be able
to elucidate how BMC can interfere in learning the way the actions are coded
allowing one to also realize that new ways to co-emerge in the movements enables
and supports the creative system, since in dance, the artist counts on the proper
body to develop his or her interpretation and creation work. This creation process
must count, by the artist, on an attitude based on his/her body’s balance
perception, on his/her choices and on the inherent qualities of balance/unbalance
restructuring in motion and choreographic design. The application of this research
has been achieved in the three-way interlacement, which we consider essential:
practical laboratories (specific experience of theory by means of BMC Method), of
creation (development of a choreography) and by studying painter Paul Klee’s
work, which has contributed as a poetic/imagetic foundation to the choreographic
process.
Key words: Body-Mind Centering® − Dance – Equilibrium – Somatic Education –
Paul Klee.