so i just thought id post what i have done on my forth day!
as i didnt dance today i cant really talk about much in this post so ill just tell you about what i did do, i washed writing off alot of walls! i rolled up 4 dance floors with hannah and set up the room ready for tomorrow :)
this is all :)
still having a great time :p
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Day 3- Summer Dancing 2012
ok so yesturday was the longest day ever! however i had an amazing day in the workshop with Kathy and watching some performances and discussions!
so the workshop was brilliant as it was the day before and our main focus was IMPROVISATION! and THE UNDERSCORE! having got used to improvising with a different group i wanted to challenge mself and throw myself in with improvising with people that i had not danced with the day before. it was great to do the underscore and we spent alot of time on it so we could take as long as we wanted in each stage. it didnt matter where everyone else was as long as i knew in my body and if i didnt i pressed the idiot button! i wish we could do more of this in our lessons and have put this forward because it has given me a great experience and the more we improvise the less scary it is!
having a blast at summer dancing :)
so the workshop was brilliant as it was the day before and our main focus was IMPROVISATION! and THE UNDERSCORE! having got used to improvising with a different group i wanted to challenge mself and throw myself in with improvising with people that i had not danced with the day before. it was great to do the underscore and we spent alot of time on it so we could take as long as we wanted in each stage. it didnt matter where everyone else was as long as i knew in my body and if i didnt i pressed the idiot button! i wish we could do more of this in our lessons and have put this forward because it has given me a great experience and the more we improvise the less scary it is!
having a blast at summer dancing :)
Monday, 25 June 2012
Summer Dancing- Day 2
so actually today i took part in a 7 hour workshop led by Kathy Crick and i must say even though it has been a long day ive enjoyed myself to the max! it was great to attend a workshop led by someone who has been working and choreographing for years and is different to our usual teachers. Kathy loves the fact that we can just explore and we dont have to be exploring the same things at the same time. she asked us what we liked to get from the workshop and i said sense of discovery and having more time can really let us find ourselves, especially after a few weeks away!
we did plenty of contact and solo work today but my favourite excercise today was simple but so effective. i partnered a lad called Lewis and he just seamed like a really down to earth lad who wanted to get the same outcome as me in the excericise. one person led and one person followed and the follower would walk backwards putting trust in the leader who was walking forwards. we were holding each others shoulders and then we were told to think of a place in our lives where we feel completely comfortable and happy. the follower would then tell the leader all about the place whilst having eyes closed so we had to trust our partner even more. my place was my garden and his was a park in his home town. once we had shared any essence we felt strongly about each others stories we had to move to what we felt. lewis mentioned mud alot so i focussed on the softness and resistance on the bottom half of my body. this excercise was brilliant because we got inspiration from other people. i had never met lewis before and being inspired by a stranger really gets me thinking. i really enjoyed the workshop and i cant wait for tomorrows workshop with kathy!
also myself and Hannah partnered a bit today and we had a great time using our feet instead of our hands in an improvisation task and we really enjoyed challenging the other by putting pressure and making it difficult on each others legs.
Bring on tomorrow :)
we did plenty of contact and solo work today but my favourite excercise today was simple but so effective. i partnered a lad called Lewis and he just seamed like a really down to earth lad who wanted to get the same outcome as me in the excericise. one person led and one person followed and the follower would walk backwards putting trust in the leader who was walking forwards. we were holding each others shoulders and then we were told to think of a place in our lives where we feel completely comfortable and happy. the follower would then tell the leader all about the place whilst having eyes closed so we had to trust our partner even more. my place was my garden and his was a park in his home town. once we had shared any essence we felt strongly about each others stories we had to move to what we felt. lewis mentioned mud alot so i focussed on the softness and resistance on the bottom half of my body. this excercise was brilliant because we got inspiration from other people. i had never met lewis before and being inspired by a stranger really gets me thinking. i really enjoyed the workshop and i cant wait for tomorrows workshop with kathy!
also myself and Hannah partnered a bit today and we had a great time using our feet instead of our hands in an improvisation task and we really enjoyed challenging the other by putting pressure and making it difficult on each others legs.
Bring on tomorrow :)
Summer Dancing- Day 1
ok so yesturday was the first day of Summer Dancing 2012 and i have to say i had an utter blast in the open jam today. it was just so great to get moving again as ive had a few weeks off dancing the way we do at uni.
plus we had live music and i must say i was a little worried when i saw a saw come out of one of the musicians cases, but all was well he played the saw not attacked anyone! it was so great to dance with new people as well, even dancing with my lecturers was brilliant even though i did feel a little scared because it was hard for me to tell myself that they were just participating!
i really had a blast in the open jam and all i can say was it was the most SURREAL experience ive have ever had the pleasure to be involved in. i was just in my own little bubble tapping the ground with my feet and one of the musicians was walking towards me playing the flute and started bouncing off my movement and i did the same with his music. theres not many chances to participate in a open jam by wow i didnt want it to end!
:)
plus we had live music and i must say i was a little worried when i saw a saw come out of one of the musicians cases, but all was well he played the saw not attacked anyone! it was so great to dance with new people as well, even dancing with my lecturers was brilliant even though i did feel a little scared because it was hard for me to tell myself that they were just participating!
i really had a blast in the open jam and all i can say was it was the most SURREAL experience ive have ever had the pleasure to be involved in. i was just in my own little bubble tapping the ground with my feet and one of the musicians was walking towards me playing the flute and started bouncing off my movement and i did the same with his music. theres not many chances to participate in a open jam by wow i didnt want it to end!
:)
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