Experiential Anatomy

New focuses;

• Mouthing pattern
• Soft spine pattern
• lancelet

2 Further tubes..

• Notocord = Soft. Becomes the spine disks. Pre spinal pattern
• Neurotube = Becomes the brain and spinal cord. Later become protected by bone (skull and spine)

Front of the body- Digestive track
Back of the body- Reminance of the neural tube
Front of the body- Reminance of the notocord

Baby 15-20 weeks = Pre spinal pattern
baby 3-4 months = Spinal pattern

Technique Improvisation 14th November

With both partners moving:

• I tracked my partners movement with my eyes open
• Then I carried on tracking the movement eyes closed
• Then we both closed our eyes while tracking
• Then we both had eyes open
• Then we both closed eyes again and tracked each other with our whole bodies not just our hands

I felt a connection with the hands, warmth,yeilding into the floor, muscles and tissue awareness, relaxation, focus on the back (spine in particular) and heat to tail connection.

Contact Improvisation 12th November

Working in partners, we traced our partners movement with our finger tips. First the mover had their eyes closed and spoke about what they were doing/feeling/focusing on while moving and the other had their eyes open and traced their body using the finger tips. I found when I was tracing the body that I focused on the textures I was feeling and to see what parts of the body I could reach, and find patterns being created. However when I was the mover I was focusing on what I could feel and how I could develop my movement in response to what I was feeling.

Then we swapped so the mover had their eyes open and the other person tracing closed theirs. This created a whole new response and reaction to what I was experiencing. I found that when I was tracking the movers dancing I was noticing different textures, layers, patterns and shapes. When swapping roles after this I noticed a change in my moving and focuses as I was then moving in response to what I had just felt, not necessarily what I felt like I wanted to do. This then gave my moving more depth and development and a variety in ways to move.

 

Contact Improvisation 5th November

Today's class was heavily focussed on the giving and taking of weight with a partner in order to move together with a full body awareness.

We started with hands on graphics, waking up the whole body by massaging, pulling, lifting, taking weight, and moving the body without response from our partner. Then as the hands on became more intense, the partner experiencing it started to allow themselves to move in response. This then developed into both of us moving with each other, but really taking the other persons weight and allowing ours to be taken. This meant thee was a lot of rolling, pulling, and stretching of body parts.

I felt I could relax into movement more, and the partner work as I knew my partner was holding a lot of my weight and we could feel deep into our own and each others muscles.

Found it usefull to focus on the idea of really 'getting underneath'.

Improvisation class 31st October

After a short warm up improvisation task on our own we worked in partners. We started with one of us moving for 10 minutes and the other witnessing, then swapping and moving in response to what we had seen, twice each. This then developed into just one minute moving each and then 30 seconds each.

I found that moving in response to someone with a diffeent movement style to my own allowed me to think outside the box and take inspiration, ideas, and explorations from their movement. In particular I could focus on the surfaces of the ground, and trying to get every part of my body on the floor. I also played with the idea of touching all parts of my body to sense different aspects of touch such as feelings, textures, and temperatures.

I noticed that during the longer improvisations of 10 minutes, it allowed my movement to be more like an exploration of my body and the space and what my partner had just displayed to me and how I could take those aspects of her moving further. However during the shorter improvisations of 1 minute and 30 seconds it was more like a conversation between us using movement. The faster chang overs allowed us to just respond immediately and let our bodies just react naturally without really thinking into it too much.

I really engaged with this task as I could push my movement boundaries by responding to my partners movement, and using new stimuli to do so. I felt like I had a full body awareness, and still brought in the focus of the breathe and being grounded, and a sense of all the limbs working together into my dancing.

Core distal movement

Moving from the centre with the idea of the body being like a starfish, everything comes from the navel. 'navel radiation pattern'.. this acnowledges the navel as a significant body point in the body.... equality of limbs... integrated through the centre.

By using a hands on with a partner, attention was brought to the centre of the body, moving out across the length of the limbs. Then moving alone using this idea of the starfish and condensing and expanding from the central point (navel). I found this image easy to connect with, especially after the hands on experience. I felt connected with my centre, and had the feeling that the body moves as a whole and all the limbs are connect and all work together.