Week 4- ‘Space and the importance’

Week 4 – Exploring space

Throughout this session, we focussed on the aspect of space and the relationship to the space, it is never empty and also has a connectivity to something.
We discussed the readings at the start of class, Nancy Stark expresses ‘space and the importance of it, that space is your friend’, Anna Halprin says ‘you’re a part of the space and not just there’ (Landscape of the Now by Kent de Spain). If we didn’t have space, we couldn’t explore movement.
We took in to consideration the knowledge we had learnt from weeks before, the body is a starting point exploring habits and images in relationship to other bodies, the space and the floor. (Recalling the topic of awareness from week 3)
We were given the task to improvise with one another, using copying, echo/essence, expanding and diminishing and making sure they were clearly shown with effort and dynamic qualities.
The ideas stem in the mind and have to consider them in the body quickly, also responding to the atmosphere and space surrounding, relating to the emotion felt and how it informs how you feel?
Kayla told us that perceptions constantly change moment by moment but it is how you relate to the space. We undertook an activity entering and exiting the space, improvising using the techniques copying, echo/essence, expanding and diminishing, we did this for 5 minutes with eight bodies in the space.
• Explored the space- using each other’s movement vocabulary
• Analysing other people’s movement in the space
• Developing others habitual movements
• Taking interpretations from others
• Responding/ relating to the space and combining with other bodies in the space around us
• How to enter/exit the space
• Timing (complex)- how it is sensed, is it aesthetic and enjoyed? What is the duration of the activity in the space?
In this clip you can see the task which was given to us, the intention of the head to touch the sit bones, we explored this for 5 minutes connecting to the space.

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