What I did today: Week 6

Note: I was observing this lesson not participating. In this class the group warmed up by doing the Peggy Hackney pattterns of total body connectivity and the Makka-ho stretches. They were also introduced to a warm up called 'Douging' this is when you tap or hit down and up your body, like you are needing dough, this relaxes the pent up tension in your muscles.

This exercise is similar to how the class were
 using their core-distal connection.

The rest of this lesson the group were experimenting with pouring and giving their weight to an object rather than a person, for this they used exercise balls. This follows on from previous classes as they used their core-distal connection when rolling over these exercise balls, this shows how Peggy Hackney's patterns of total body connectivity can be applied to the movements we make in performance. Also, in this lesson they experimented with using the exercise ball as a rolling point on contact between two people, this meant that they had to give their weight not only to an object but also to the person on the other side. This, from observation, seemed quite tricky, as many people kept dropping thr ball and losing the connection between them. But once they learned to trust the other person and give more of their weight, the movements were much more fluid and they didn't drop the ball as much.

Then we all had to go back to our piece of writing about our familiar place (see previous blog posts), and re-write (from emotion memory) the same piece of writing with the key feelings we can remember writing down. Then we had to do some individual movements from these 'feelings' and then find 3 other people and teach them our movements. We were then given the task (for independent study) to create a improvisational movement piece using these movements and come up with some rules (e.g. always one person on the floor, when someone claps you have to change tempo etc.) to be performed next week.