SRT
With Polly Hudson

Last two classes of SRT was about instant letting go. We improvised in duets a little bit, thinking about supple instant movements.I found it as a really nice work in pairs, giving and responding impulses, at the same time thinking about spaces in the body (having an image of light/ windows between vertebrae) and floating skull - having awareness of your own body. It was such an easy improvisation, with an UNEXPECTED movements happening. I liked that feeling when you respond and react to suggested touch as an impulse of unexpected movement and being actually aware and careful of you inner landscape at the same time. It makes the movement quality better.
Then we had some hand touch work in order to release and open hip.
As a new experience, I could mention something, that I felt laying on the floor. Somehow, I felt disorientated. It is probably because I felt quite awake before, so when my body was trying to get into inner landscape I felt disorientated. It was something new and even strange, even in a good way.
Moving around I was focusing on circulation in my body in relation to energy circulation. By the way, working with bouncing with suspended torso I found it really easy, which was a big step towards a better quality, first time it felt that effortless!!!LIGHT and EASY. I explored that in "river" exercise and in solo dancing at the end of the class. However, it is important to notice, that exploring bouncing was about lightness and easiness in movements, about keeping going in order to make jumps effortless by keeping going rather than using extra muscles which you need to start a movement and about rhythm.
By the way, finding that easy bouncing is really useful for ballet classes, as we sometimes use that image!

What is the influence of disorientation in my body? what makes our body become disorientated?
How to keep our body supple, soft and easy in our everyday life?

bouncing images

UNDERSCORE workshop
With Amy Voris

This time we kept exploring and getting an understanding about what underscore is. Being in the space I somehow became tired. At some point I lost receptiveness, readiness feeling. I explored all the levels, but when I lost what I was doing (just felt like I don't know what to do next), i felt tired. Even until this particular moment I was enjoying the improvisation and exploration my own moving in that way, when I left space, I didn't want to come back, but I did, and encouraged myself to move, even very slowly. It was different, because moving really slowly I was thinking about my moving quality and kept noticing people passing me, at some points having contacts. I explored walking backwards on four, passing, stepping thou everybody else. That was impressive, unexplored, such an unexpected moving way involving people around. When I left the space again, I stayed there because of the need to witness - my minds were more awake than my body, and I enjoyed that, because as the space became very active, it gave me some choreographic ideas. I started to notice senses again, taking the environment, noticing senses such as smell, touch (which was a bit different this time, because I felt I didn't really wanted to be touched, but at some points, passing people and touching them just like letting them touch me I felt getting different directions to move, which is good when you improvise). Music also helped me getting into, it was another sense, giving a direction to change the movements (like rhythm). For example, When I heard it playing, I started to move on beats, but later on, i somehow lost it. I think that was the moment I felt tired. Sense of gravity felt as support, which I liked because of the way it affected my movements. I also had some thoughts about lightness in my body. So, I could say, even my thoughts and feeling changed several times during this class, all of them gave me different experience and choices to explore.

    My task for future would be try to explore the lightness in my body more and how to keep it?

Sensory walk
Receiving the environment

It was a class with Amy Voris. This time we concentrated on our senses, which I always love to work with. At the beginning we talked about it,what made me start noticing and think about the senses, how powerful they are, how gifted we are so we can be sensible. Also, we thought about conceptional responses, urban spaces, emotional responses, poetical responses coming from our minds, about being receptive. This gave me so much ideas coming into my mind, especially when we got a task to go outside, have a walk being receptive. I noticed many things, which interested me. For example, as it was really cold outside, I started to think about coldness, and notice temperature everywhere around. I started to touch things, ground, stones, water, etc.. another thing which came into my head - directions. As I started to think about it, I had some interesting choreographic ideas, which I probably use in the future.
All this work gave me so many things to think about, to explore and it reminded me IPP classes. I really enjoyed that and find useful for me as an artist.

As further question and task for myself I think would be thoughts about how to keep receptive?

underscore

Experimental Anatomy
Class with Katye Coe
Introduction of Underscore

Ariving to your body

That day required me to move a bit more than usual, to get warm in active moving rather than laying on the floor looking for stillness, because it felt like my minds were ready to work already, but my body felt a bit tired somehow. I just wanted to renew or wake up every cell of my body.

This time we started to learn about underscore. We were given some articles to read about it, and started practicing. I found nice and interesting, when I got ability to choose between staying "in my own bubble" space or leave it and travel, explore the sensation of passing someone else. I also explored some new things, such as keeping the attention, noticing the moments when I loose it, at the same time keeping open my creativity, imagination and keeping moving. I also found some unexpected movements during this class, and I found myself very opened, full of readiness, I even noticed that laying on the floor didn't required me to close my eyes - even opposite- i couldn't close them. It was a new experience of a bit different improvisation way compared to the one's I was involved before. It felt like following the body so naturally, using instructions that i heard only as suggestions for further movements and things to concentrate. I heard all of them , but my body just kept going so naturally, effortless. Softness; Freedom; Warmth; Readiness.
Some thoughts then came into my head:
Natural progression of my body.
All I have got in my body - it's already there.... using resources of my body.
However, as soon as I left the space to write in my journal, I couldn't come back at the same state. It felt weird. But then I started from the beginning and found myself working absolutely differently- I explored levels differently, and I started to travel instead of staying in "my own bubble" space. Even it took a bit of time to get into again, it gave me different choices to move and explore, improvise. I really liked the opportunities to let go, or to change the direction of my exploration any time! I am looking forward to find more about underscore!


My question for further exploration would be, how to keep that state of readiness, how to keep concentrated and open?