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Ann Gleave made the point, that when dance phrasing subsides to a quiet spot, that is the best time to exhale. The body will relax naturally thus reinforcing the intended point. Before a colorful energetic passage a dancer should inhale, said Ann. Sounds plausible to me though I have yet to try it. If anyone knows about inhaling and exhaling it is singers -- on the dance floor do you plan your breathing in advance, as you would for your singing?
No. I've found very little crossover between singing (or woodwinds, which I did longer) and dance. Dance I'm following a tempo, playing or singing I'm following a phrase (and one where timing can change at the whim of the conductor.) Plus with dancing I don't know what song I'll get most of the time so I don't know what's coming next anyway. My showcase I'm worried more about acting than breathing.
i am professionally trained in voice...unfortunately, a great deal of singing involves coming in promptly...which runs counter to a great deal of higher level dancing...though finding a time to breathe has been a challenge for me in both venues
There seem to be a number of dancers into Yoga and Pilates which help to train the breathing. I feel that if you train your breathing on a regular basis, including outside of your dancing, this is enough. Of course, you need to train your endurance as well. There is also the problem of trying too hard in the wrong ways. There are many tricks to dancing more efficiently and that should not be under estimated.
Just working on breathing STEADILY is good for me. It's natural to want to hold your breath doing something taxing but then you just lock up. Skating and dance I both have to remind myself to breathe! Then of course at comps I will try to hide my breathing even if I turn blue. I took the advice Diana Adams gave Suzanne Farrell (out of the latter's autobiography) and ran with it--never let them see you pant or your rib cage heaving. If I need to breathe hard it can wait until I'm off the floor.
Singing mostly consists of long controlled exhales combined with rapid, deep, relaxed inhales. I learned from several coaches that the issue with dancing is that we often don't fully exhale, so the inhales become shallow and insufficient to support the dancing. Their solution was to focus on achieving a complete exhale (sometimes aggressively exhaling, sometimes relaxed, but always complete) and let the inhale happen naturally. The timing of the exhale probably could vary with the musicality of the partnership. This has done wonders for my stamina in VW and Jive.
Wonderful new info. In a 100-second dance how many times would you fully exhale? Is it possible that exhaling is a "separation" issue? That when the mind is busy with many movements and changes during dance, that nature downgrades urgency and inhibits exhaling? If so, to exhale fully and purposefully at the right time would require practice (and pre-planning)? Athletes also pay much attention to exhaling/inhaling. Are there runners in here? I know jockeys are trained to pay careful attention to encouraging their horses to inhale before a pitched battle in the home straight.
...you know some weird trainers than. How a horse breathes at a racing pace is pretty much limited to "how their anatomy requires them to breathe while running." It's actually pretty closely tied to their action and not something you can train them to change (or would want to--they way horse breathes flat out is about as efficient as you can ask for in a quadruped.) Also, if you've ever worked a horse even at exercise speed, the most complicated thing in your head is watching traffic and controlling direction and lead changes and clocking yourself, and deciding when to make a bid or if your horse even has enough left if you're racing. There is not the slightest thing you can do to affect how the horse breathes (well, other than give him Lasix before the race if he's a bleeder.) In fact I'm not even sure how you could ever get a horse to inhale on cue in a non-forced, non-violent way in any situation. It would be a lot easier to dance (or run, or anything strenuous) if humans could breathe like horses, but we're not built that way!
I hadn't really thought about how often I would exhale. I think that depends on your own lung capacity. I do agree that it is a "separation" issue and that practice and planning are useful. The practice could be choreographed to a routine, or simply incorporated into certain common steps (like a strong downbeat in VW or a fan in rumba). Eventually I assume we need to add the habit of complete exhalations to the myriad of other habits we have to develop for dancing!
this reminds me of my drown proofing lessons; while doing the dead man's float, i would wait to break the surface before exhaling, which meant i ended up sucking in water as i'd go submerged by the time i'd finished exhaling. the point is that while singing or playing a wind instrument, you're already exhaling as a natural consequence of the activity, and the inhale is similarly done as a natural consequence of preparing to start the next phrase, but the inhale has to be done in preparation to play/sing the pickup to the down beat. i guess the point is that when i'm dancing, my breathing patterns can be different to what they'd be if i was performing the same song; i tend to take prep breaths in anticipation of new movement which sometimes but not always reflects the exact moment the next musical phrase starts.
I have had professional voice training...I don't actually find it helpful...first of all because a singer is going to inhale in anticipation of beginning on beat and I dance to almost me lat...but also because in singing, the words/phrasing determines when I breathe.... which, while it might conceptually translate doesn't really happen automatically in the body for me in terms of expressing
Very good point. A musician sits down and plays with his hands and mouth, without counter-demands from moving feet and upper body. A dancer has to look after body movement, and if a dance phrase did onflict with musical phrase then dance phrase has to take precedence. What Ann Gleave said was that conscious exhale causes the body to involuntarily relax and subside, helping to portray the end of a dance phrase, usualy coinciding with musical phrase. Unlike a singer who when running out of breath has to inhale, a dancer can get by with small involuntary inhales and exhales. Taking no deep inhale before an energetic crescendo will not enhance portrayal of it, nor will absence of soft exhale enhance portrayal of a pianissimo step exit. For sure an operatic singer will need a deep inhale before a dramatic phrase -- out of physical necessity for sure, but also for fresh oxygen to orchestrate mind with body.
I've had a couple of pro coaches who have taught breath control while dancing. Both emphasized the importance of breathing in through your nose and out through your moth throughout the dancing. My Standard coach talked about using inhalation to slow an action when you are trying to lengthen an action (a slow in Quickstep after a set of quick runs is a good example) and to counter that to use exhales to increase the speed of certain actions (the change to promenade in a Tango link is a good example). My Latin coach never talked about controlled exhalation but did talk about using a forceful exhale when creating a pose (like the crash in a Paso Doble) to make more of an emphasis that you have stopped the current action and are now creating an action of stillness.
I am inclined to see it as: to inhale to emphasise the next action, to exhale to de-emphasise the current action and make the next action stand out. I must practise this to build it into auto-pilot -- BD4L do you do this unconsiously now? I find it hard enough to walk and chew gum as it is.
I shall rephrase that: to consciously exhale and immediately de-emphasise the current action, like pronouncing a fullstop. to inhale and emphasise the next action, like getting ready to pronounce an exclamation mark.
To me its more about speed. A forced exhale can be used to increase the speed of an action so the action is sharper and the natural relaxation leaves you grounded which creates the strong image. The inhale can be used to actually slow your momentum down. For example in Foxtrot if you do a series of pivots and exit the pivots going directly into a Feather Step. Taking a strong inhalation on the Slow of the Feather Step slows your momentum from your pivots so you are able to extend the action and not rush past it. I have problem breathing in through my nose because of sinus problems, but I do use the planned breathing quite often. Part of it is unconscious but a lot of it for me is tied to just how I emphasize my steps. When I'm doing my last cleaning prep for a competition and finalizing how I want to approach each step in a routine I carefully identify my points of emphasis and when reach those points of emphasis one of the things I do to make that emphasis is use of breathing. So its conscious in that I decide when I will do it before hand, but unconscious in that it is part of the way I emphasize steps that I have chosen to emphasize. I hope that helps.


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The last two days have been pretty interesting for me. Our platoon commander has brought in an old friend of his who is a wilderness/survival/mixed martial arts/tracking/primitive living expert. This guy is basically the dude that every kid that grew up anywhere near some woods wanted to be when they grew up. He's only 27, but when your stories begin with, "Last year when I was doing a survival course in Nepal," or "So I was sparring this monk in Thailand," or "By week two I had lost 22 pounds," your age doesn't really matter.
Essentially he has been teaching super secret ninja stuff that you didn't even know was possible. Like starting a fire with two sticks. Okay, so maybe you knew that was possible, but I know you've tried, and I'm sure you failed. Well, we learned how to do it, and after shaping some tools with a pocket knife for about 30 minutes, we did it. We've done a lot of martial arts training. Today we even did a 3 hour manhunt style tracking course that he had set up the night before by running around through our desert area, pretending like he was evading police. We had to pick up and follow his trail, as well as determine which direction he felt that he was being followed from by analyzing how his steps would drift, determine his rate of speed, whether he was wounded (he was limping), etc. We also learned all kinds of wilderness survival stuff, you know, like Castaway meets Robinson Crusoe. It was pretty awesome.
The guys gonna be here for one more day. I'm kind of hoping that he can teach me invisibility or something cool like that. Maybe the force.
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"Make It Count" no more
Make it 13 years in a row that the Junior Circuit or "younger brother" of baseball is undefeated at the Midsummer Classic. While the American League was rewarded with home field advantage in the World Series once again, fans and players alike are still uneasy with Bud Selig's decision to "make it count."
I saw interviews with players like Justin Morneau and Derek Jeter saying they would actually prefer that the team with the better regular season record receive home field advantage. Keep in mind these comments were coming from American League All-Stars, so I imagine that after losing home field advantage for the past seven years, the National League All-Stars probably feel the same way.
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New here with Bird question.
How can I tell the difference between a Red Bird and a Cardinal? I live in Houston, Tx and I have a bunch of either Red Birds are Cardinals in my back yard. This morning it was great! it appeared that the Mom and Dad took two very young baby's out to learn to hunt I could see the baby's catch insects in mid-air wow!
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Mr. Bill,
There isn't actually a species of bird called a 'Red Bird', so do you think that your Red Bird actually is just a Cardinal? Here is a good photo of a male (left) with a female (right) http://www.northrup.org/Photos/cardi...e-cardinal.jpg |
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I don't know what you mean by red birds. Perhaps you mean Scarlet Tanager or Summer Tanager?
But Cardinals are the only bird in your area that are totally red with a crest of the top of their head.
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I don't now exactly what you mean but I'll give it a try. The only birds that are totally red are cardinals and tanagers. You can tell Cardinals from Tanagers by the bill shape, shape/structure, tail length etc. A Cardinal has a pink cone-shaped bill tanagers don't. Also Cardinals have a long tail with a black face which is lacking in Summer Tanager (See here.). You can tell Summer Tanagers from Scarlet by the black wings on Scarlet. And Summer is totally red. (See this Scarlet Tanager.) compared with the Summer Tanager above. Summer Tanagers are the only red bird in you're area that is totally red, besides cardinals. If you don't have a field guide to birds I would suggest you buy one. Get the Sibley if you can.
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A similar thing happened here with birds like the Lapwing, which was previously known by several different regional names. Graham
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The id was easy. That link says they associate in January and February with snow birds...
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I would guess that a good majority of people in the southeast US still call them redbirds (the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team is often referred to as redbirds as well), even though the AOU name is Northern Cardinal. They just aren't birders. Summer Tanagers were once know as summer redbirds, to distinguish them from the "redbirds", which are present all year in these parts.
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Many people throughout the south, not just southeast, United States call Northern Cardinals Redbirds. I grew up in Dallas, Texas - the north central part of the state, and never really heard of a Northern Cardinal till I left home. They were always called Redbirds. Now 40 odd years later whenever my mother sees a Cardinal it is still a Redbird to her. She talks about Redbirds all the time, and when I gently try and correct her it does no good.
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Thursday, Dec 8, 2011, 12:22 pm
Amid Fruitless Corporate Tax Breaks, Gov. Walker Grows Unpopular
Surveying the wide array of new tax breaks heaped upon corporations and the richest 1 percent in Wisconsin by Scott Walker, coupled with proposals for environmental deregulation to facilitate iron-ore mining in a pristine area of the state, State Rep. Fred Clark (D-Baraboo) snapped in September, "That's not a jobs plan, that's a corporate profit plan."
Since Walker took office in January, the state's GOP-dominated legislature has approved $1.6 billion in corporate tax breaks over the next 10 years, including: $874 million for manufacturing and agricultural companies; $366 million specifically targeted to multi-state corporations; and $334 million for a new-hires write-off.
Clark's comment marks a long overdue—and hopefully lasting—break for Democrats from the bipartisan consensus on corporate tax breaks of the past four decades. Like Republicans, Democrats have generally been willing to cut corporate taxes to retain and attract manufacturing jobs.
But Wisconsin citizens are growing increasing restive about the shortage of good jobs in the state. Between October 2010 and October 2011, Wisconsin added only 5,500 nonfarm jobs, according to the Labor Department. The strategy of corporate tax breaks can hardly be depicted as motivating the "job creators" at Briggs & Stratton, Rockwell, Master Lock, Badger Meter and Johnson Controls, which have transferred tens of thousands of jobs to Mexico and China.
The October issue of the Who Does Not Pay Taxes? newsletter published by the Institute for Wisconsin's Future (IWF) spotlights four major firms that have benefited from the taxes contributed by hard-working families whose jobs have been disappearing and wages have been falling—by nearly 22 percent, in the case of Milwaukee.
The firms include: Kimberly-Clark, the paper-products giant; Brunswick, owner of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac, which pushed vast concessions on its workers by threatening to relocate; Snap-on, the Kenosha auto-tool firm; and Rockwell Automation, descendant of Allen-Bradley, a Milwaukee industrial icon, which ended the last of 5,500 production jobs in the city in 2010.
As IWF revealed:
In the last decade, these four companies have made nearly $29 billion in pretax profits, and paid a total of only 0.01% of that in Wisconsin income tax. And while CEO compensation tripled, the average working wage remained flat.
IWF research director Jack Norman said that the tax breaks mean less revenue for public education, where Walker imposed some of the biggest cuts in public education. Not only have the tax breaks failed to create jobs, they have constituted an enormous drain on state tax revenues needed to modernize schools, reduce class size, hold down tuition at state universities and provide openings at the state's technical colleges, all crucial issues given that discarded workers desperately seek new careers.
Tax breaks also destroy public confidence in the tax system. Taxes are fundamentally based on an honor system, and every tax return can't be audited.
Yet Scott Walker is continuing to give Wisconsin corporations with more tax breaks, in the name of generating 250,000 jobs by—as he originally planned it—the end of his four-year term in 2016. Some of the corporate tax breaks will be snowballing in their effect: "Walker's plan for the elimination of corporate income taxes on all Wisconsin manufacturing and agricultural processing over the next five years will be "extraordinary in its impact," Norman told In These Times.
But when faced with a choice between making the governor look good by increasing jobs or boosting already-substantial profits, Walker's corporate allies invariably opt for the higher profits to be found in Mexico and China over making Walker look good. Earlier this year, GE moved its headquarters for its medical equipment division from Waukesha, Wis., to Shanghai. The Thermo-Fisher Corporation is planning to move almost all of the 1,100 jobs it once had in Wisconsin to Mexico. C&D Engineering is also threatening a move to Mexico.
Faced with these events and dismal data, Walker has resorted to distorting figures purported showing job growth. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which endorsed Walker and has been generally supportive of him, reported this week:
Announcing the best job numbers of his tenure with a splash last summer, Gov. Scott Walker left out the fact that his office had been told in an internal report that the monthly numbers were "very questionable" and "suspect."The snapshot of jobs in the state is normally announced each month simply through a news release, but in July Walker traveled to Milwaukee to announce that the month before the state had gained a net total of 9,500 jobs, a big chunk of the net total of 18,000 new jobs nationwide for that month. It was announced at the time as the biggest monthly increase in jobs since September 2003…
[However], in every month since June, the state has lost jobs both overall and in the private sector...
In fact, Walker's Wisconsin is actually at the bottom in the most recent study:
Wisconsin posted the nation's biggest payroll losses, with employment dropping by 9,700 jobs in October compared with September, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report …
All of this may have something to do with the fact that the governor's popularity has been plummeting. The most recent poll by St. Norbert's College showed a stunning 58 precent level of support for recalling Walker, up from 47 percent in April. (There are also recall petitions circulating against Lieutenant Gov. Rebecca Kleifisch and four GOP state senators). As previously reported, the United Wisconsin coalition compiled more than 300,000 signatures on petitions calling for Walker's recall; about 540,00 are needed to trigger a new election next year.
Most strikingly, Republican support for Walker has suddenly started melting away. As a FOX TV station reported:
The poll also examined Republican support for a recall, and says the numbers have more than tripled - they're now at 24 percent, up from only 7 percent in the spring. The poll indicates almost universal recall support from Democrats, with numbers around 90 percent.
The combination of Walker's attack on fundamental public-worker rights and his willingness to enrich corporations through tax breaks, coupled with ongoing misery for working families—wage cuts, layoffs, and home foreclosures—is starting to look more and more like a formula for Walker's political demise.
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Roger Bybee
Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based freelance writer and University of Illinois visiting professor in Labor Education. Roger's work has appeared in numerous national publications, including Z magazine, Dollars & Sense, The Progressive, Progressive Populist, Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Yes! and Foreign Policy in Focus. More of his work can be found at zcommunications.org/zspace/rogerdbybee.
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