Marcela Trape - Body Awareness Method
With 40 years of dance experience, Marcela Trapé´s artistic and teaching career encompasses an unique combination of ballet, contemporary dance, tango, and her self-created Body Awareness Method.
As a performer, Marcela has partcipated in many ballet classics since entering dance school in 1979, through 1989, including El Flautista de Hammelin, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, El Principito, Nuevo Tiempo, and many more.
In the 1990s, Marcela branched into neoclassical and contemporary dance and formed the group Contempx3, with which she created varios ground-breaking works as choreographer and dancer. Near the end of the 90s, Marcela began teaching classes based on stretching and release, which would soon become the foundation for her Body Awareness Method.
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Body Awareness Method
The Body Awareness Method® is the result of the investigative work Marcela has conducted over the years while training the many professional and amateur Tango dancers who have come to her for classes at her studio. The method was developed out of their growth process. In 2009, she codified the system in her book BAM GO TANGO, Body Awareness Method - BAM applied to Argentine Tango.
Her observations have led her to the conclusion that with the help of supervised training, catering to the individual’s needs, it is possible to accelerate growth. Furthermore the process may be made painless and even pleasant, as the individual limitations and the frustrations these cause are lessened.
Normally, we learn to dance by copying the instructor, whose movements we try to re-create with our own bodies. The learning process, however, can be made more efficient as the individual becomes aware of his body, its limitations and how to tackle them.
Using this method, Marcela has trained Eugenia Parrilla, Mauricio Castro, Carla Marano, Laura Melo, Melina Brufman, Alejandra Gutty, Fabián Salas, Cinthia Fattori, Eladia Córdoba, Beatriz Zuloaga, Andrés Amarilla, José Manrique, Jose Garofalo, Solange Acosta, and Natalia Pombo, among others. She also gave a especial body training for a tango-theatre-dance piece in Amsterdam by Pablo Inza, Esteban Moreno, Pancho Martinez Pey, Moira Castellano, Lucila Cionci, Valencia Batuik, and Claudia Códega.
Self-Evaluation - How is your body?
1. Have you ever found that you were unable to perform a step or a movement, but weren’t sure why?
2. Do you suffer from bad posture?
3. Does your back sometimes hurt after dancing?
4. Do you have difficulty performing spirals?
5. Do you have trouble releasing a limb to execute a “boleo” or a “gancho”, for example?
6. Do you find it difficult to keep your balance?
7. Does having a person in front of you make you feel uncomfortable or interfere with your movement in any way?
8. Do you feel that you are not able to give your partner clear enough directions?
9. Do you find that you are not able to understand the directions your partner is giving you?
10. Does it take you a long time to pick up new steps?
11. Do you feel your dancing could be more elegant?
12. Do you tire quickly when dancing?
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