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I call the lowest common denominator of music and movement the "Fersmaß" (dt.) / “heel measure” (engl.). Similar to the “Versmaß” (dt.) / “verse measure” (engl.) in poetics, the different weighting of the tenses counts. Heavy & light, stressed & unstressed is not only valid in music and movement, it is the direct link of both.

¡Co-Ordinatio! is the art of movement which brings forth the visualization of metrical impulses from music.

The floor as a base surface esp. in contact with the heel is of special importance. The dance floor serves the understanding of the "heel doctrine" in the beat, upbeat, downbeat, backbeat, offbeat, etc..

My art of movement is based on biomechanical laws, which arise as if by themselves in the skillful change of emphasis. Everything that stands in the way of the natural paths is avoided as much as possible. “The art is natur” in order to give up own ideas and to be an instrument for the visualization of the music. What kind of music you want to "be", you decide yourself. Through the tools of my service you become aware of what you are already doing.

The reflection of one's own power through the GRF (ground reaction force) is one of the most exciting topics in life. And indeed, it is my speciality! To let it through from bottom to top, to raise yourself up again and again in letting your weight go and take up the power of earth, makes you an instrument not only of the art of movement but of the art of life itself. And the music supports you, it initiates, it orders, it carries, it lets you fall and straightens you up, it is your friend and master.

In every single movement I attach importance to the insights of Heinrich Jacoby, a German-Swiss musician and researcher of giftedness, who explained not only to me but also to Moshé Feldenkrais essential contents of life. To internalize the “functionally efficient movement-approach” of each movement needs a lot of research within yourself. No one can do this work for you!

Heinrich Jacoby advised Moshé Feldenkrais not to develop a method based on the understanding of these fundamentals of life, because it is a matter of the mental recognition of the connections alone, which everyone has to decipher for himself. Methods run the risk of leading to pseudo-knowledge because only parts are understood instead of the whole. I feel committed to the principles of my teacher Heinrich Jacoby, not to create a method!

That is why I present you my art “¡Co-Ordinatio!” and you can mirror yourself in it. What you do with it, you decide for yourself. Here you get the knowledge of the laws around the subject of music and movement.

Behind this is the philosophy of modesty - despite all the urge for business and monetary struggle for survival - remember: It is never your merit, but the merit of the life in you, that you can move in a state of conscious natural coordination and give to other people with it.