Last week

I didn't get to it sooner...Here's a little review of what we did last week at the Raffinerie:

The morning again it was just me and Barbara. We dove into the very sensorial organ, the skin. Through skin we travelled to fascia. Initiating movement from there is unpredictable because it makes you change directions in surprising ways. Great for catching yourself in your habits. I tried to introduce shape and gesture from bones, but as we were in a different mind it had to wait till after lunch break. Later on in the day Barbara felt that the work with tissues resurfaced unexpetedly, informing her dance. I like when that happens.

In the afternoon Boris joined us. Being three, which is already a group, I came back to the viewpoints work. We tried a few exercises being in the same energy, creating the energy in the room on which to float or surf or play with. It was simply walking together, increasing the speed from stillness to running (max speed) and then decreasing it to stillness again. In this the task was (as actually always is) to live in the triangle of Concentration (here on the task), Attentiveness/Listening (to each other) and Individual Freedom (I stole that insight from Peter Brook).
From there we went into working on shapes, or rather shifiting awareness to it, as you are always in shape (ha!), curves and lines, baby, it's all about curves and lines. And then came gesture and with it meaning. Can be scary at times to be dragged into a situation that the gesture evokes, or emotionality. Live and let die.
The last hour or so, we just created pieces, solos, duos, one trio. It's really fun to let go of the tasks and see how the previous work informs the creations. Out for more tomorrow. Maybe with some music.