FINAL PROJECT
Sensory games
Overview :
1. A sensitive and awarness warm up. Making contact with the floor and observing how you can relax in standing position, how your breath is, your posture...
Games :
I choose to use an object ( little ball) to fix with eyes and dance around it, without looking away from it, in order to organize the body around it. Object can't move but your body can change levels, go away or close from the object.
After a fiew moments, I add some touching, softly as you can, you can touch the object with your hands and feet.
If the object is a ball it s even more fun because it can roll over the floor so part of the game is that you can touch the object but without moving it.
Last game was with 3 or more objects around the floor to reach far as you can. took it and place it again anywhere in your space. So you reach an object, and move in other direction always with the ideas of pendiculate in any position you are.
You could do this games in a seated, quadrupidal, deep squat, standing position... and move from each position.
where to place the eyes, is a question/concept I like to play with in order to not only looking the floor, I like to focus on external cues/ or senses to be aware of my environnement and be able to play with.
Touching, for exemple, with pole dancing we awlays keep a strong grip to the polewe need to create force to get upside down etc but soft touch can also be possible and can relax the body in some ways.
2. I like the process of creating games around concepts and shared with others; seeing people dancing, improvising, and see how they experiment thoses games
3. With those games, I bring to participants some sensitive experimentations. They can observe there relationship with the object, how they can play with there own sense through this ball (or object)
how they can move or fix this object, I like this concept of not moving something, because it bring many possibilities to explore and move the body even if something is fix, like the eyes in the first game. In the second game they can practice / play with there agility of not moving the ball even if they touch it. It requires control in all the body ( even more when we touch it with the feet)
last games was about reaching objects and replaces it in your own spaces far away from you. So now you can propely take the object and stretch yourself in weird positions, and create ways to go through. In this game you can practice supporting yourself in this weird and stretchy positions.
4. One thing I could differently is to talk more about one point in the last game ; create ways/ pattern, shapes when you reaching an object, and when you replace it on the floor. Cause It can be a possibility to travel with your body around the space.
5. What I can add in my teaching and own practice is more games around the senses and a cool warm up to relax the nervous system, be consious of the points of contact, on the breath and how we can control it if we need to. I would love to introduce some games like this and get people enjoy to be curious of there sense and how powerful and creative it can be.
2-C : Summary
Experiment some games with you senses ; eyes, and touch.
what are you looking when you dancing ?
How the eyes and what are you looking could change your relationship with your body ?
How soflty can you touch your appartus/props/environnement ?
How reaching in dancing can be a ruse to pendiculate