‘How can we explore momentum alongside the idea of coming off the floor without using the support of our hands and how does this change when working with new or old partners?’ As a group we devised four tasks to help explore and answer our research question:  Starting with skinesphere gradually integrating lower and upper […]

Today we began by watching a short video of an animated skeleton, the skeleton enhanced how even when we are standing in a still neutral position the body always has slight movement. According to Steve Paxton this movement is known as the small dance.( ZayacZhe, 2009). We experienced the small dance by standing with our eyes […]

Before we started moving we compared two different contact improvisation videos, Steve Paxton’s Magnesium (1972) and Blake and Brandon from Earthdance (2010). Paxton’s Magnesium was the first live performance of contact improvisation, thus the movement content was extremely raw showcasing fast pace movement that challenged reflexes and was full of rolling, falling and weight transfer. […]

Prior to last week’s class we began with a similar principle of freely walking around the space energising the room, which steadily brought us down to the floor to experiment with ‘skinesphere’ through rolling, sliding and gliding. Again the task gradually builds to using lower kinesphere, upper kinesphere and then a combination of all (upper/lower […]