Breath Made Visible

This week we had to watch a film about a dancer called Anna Halprin. This dance is very similar to the movements we do in our workshops. Anna does not focus on perfecting structured and rigid dance movements, but using dance to freely express our innermost thoughts. 

One bit that has stayed with me, was the part where Anna was teaching children a dance lesson and allowing them to express themselves. I found this extremely inspiring especially as I work with children and the beauty and innocence of a child is expressed through their seemingly random movements. I feel that Anna Halprin allows adults to express their 'inner child' in a way. 

Some parts though, I thought were slightly odd. When the dance group were dancing with brown paper. I am not entirely sure what was the point of that movement piece and what that means. But as I do not come from a dancer background I feel I may not be able to understand it fully as I would have done. One of my friends, who does come from a dancer background, really saw the beauty and understood the reasoning behind it.