What I did today: Week 7

Note: I was observing this workshop, not participating due to injury.

This workshop, again, follows on from the previous one. However, instead of using exercise balls to highlight the rolling point of contact, you just have to use the other person's centre as the rolling point of contact. This is called contact improvisation. People in my class found this quite tricky without having the ball to help and guide you on the sort of movements you should be making. Many people in the class felt embarrassed and stuck when it came to thinking up new ways of pouring your weight onto someone and rolling with this point of contact. With the ball it is easier to see when you lost the point of contact and how to not lose the contact again, whereas without it, you have to be very critical of yourself, and realise when you lose the contact and what went wrong. This can sometimes be something people struggle with. But, once people were aware of how to do this task, it was very beautiful to watch the types of movement people could come up with. From these movements, I noticed that I could infer some sort of 'story' or relationship. This jusy goes to show, that without trying movements can have so much meaning and impact.