Sunday 27 May 2007

Adding moves

We have been experimenting with the addition of 'moves' such as a lean, a click of the fingers, clapping hands, touch or contact and sound. We noticed that leaning or contact has the effect of taking us into contact improvisation. A lean in particular had the effect of taking us into dance with the observer, Simon, noticing that it looked like 'modern dance'. Sound had the effect of taking me out of my body and into creating something. An option we are experimenting with at the moment is the use of Arawana's 'archetyple' moves and if the opportunity arose, we would move into contact improvisation and when that is over, to return to the basic moves. It was interesting to notice the difference in energy and it was possible to maintain awareness without losing the emergent nature of what was in creation nor awareness of the field.

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