Term 3 Exercise Review 4

Term Three Exercises

Meditation

• Originally meditating for 9 hours for 10 days. However, for educational purposes we meditated in silence for 30 minutes.

Connecting With The Sense Of Touch

• Closing your eyes and using your skin to connect with what’s around them.

Contact Improvisation

• In partners we keep our eyes shut and make contact with our skin. Creating a sequence of non linear actions.

Riffing

• A circle of simple and synchronised movements create an atmosphere of energy that get sent into the person in the middle trying to find themselves. They soon refine a movement and then someone goes in to copy the movement and then explores movements with them.

Choral Riffing

• The whole group start off with changing between laughing and crying. Then everyone follows their instincts and does what they feel is right. Then the actions combine into a group movement. Then the whole class merge with each other to create a class movement. Then someone changes the movement and the class does the moment making the leader disappear.

Ganzfeld Effect

• We make a mask out of paper and cover our eyes with it. This allows us to only see the colour white. Then we lie down for half an hour whilst listening to a white noise or a very low base and then identify what happened to us individually.

Choral Choreography

• It is similar to the choral riffing because everyone gradually does a similar move however this is more looking at one person doing something and everyone else feeding into that movement to develop it going even further. Then someone doing something else and waiting for the rest of the class to respond.

Speaking Your Inner Monologue (The Dark)

• We all had to lie down and stare into pitch black. We have to disconnect from everyone and listen to our inner voices. And with what our inner voices say we need to repeat everything they say out loud.

Writing Your Inner Monologue

• We need to get a piece of paper and pen. We got two sentence starters to use so we can write what first comes into our minds in relation to those sentence starters. The sentence starters are ‘I remember’ and ‘ One day’.  The point is to continue writing what we think and don’t stop until the time is up.

Speaking Your Inner Monologue (Sentence Starters)

• Instead of lying down in the dark this time you are in partners and you use sentence starters to help stimulate thoughts. You continue speaking until times up.

Pointing Out The Obvious

• We get into partners and we both take turns to point out what we see from the other person. This could simply be describing their appearance. But the thing you can’t do is give your opinion.

Emotional Learning

• One person starts off a movement and everyone takes a moment to observe how to copy the movement and breathing pattern. Once learnt everyone closely crowds around that person and does the movement in sync with them. After some time the movement mutates into a personal interpretation and then someone runs through the middle to break that connection to start a new one.

Hand Raise Fall

• Everyone is walking around the space. One person raises their hand and says me and starts to fall backwards. Everyone has to prevent the falling person from connecting with the floor.  People that don’t reach them in time continue push focus towards the falling person by being on one knee and looking at them. The game expands by having more people drop at the same time.  And people can say ‘you’ to tell another person that they have to fall and be caught.

The Trust Fall Exercise

• We get into partners and one has to fall into the other’s arms. This could be done backwards or forwards. You take turns.

Tick Tock

• We get into groups of three and one person is standing in the middle, facing towards one person. The other two have to be on their knees facing towards the middle person. The middle person has to fall forwards towards the person they are facing and be caught. The person who caught them has to push them back towards the other person. They continue doing this movement until you get a steady tick tock pattern.  When practiced well every group does it to create a synchronised tick tock action.

Pain And Pleasure

• You get into partners and you sit back to back. You start to explore your partner with back on back contact. You evolve that motion into the technique of contact improvisation to search for three positions that resemble pleasure and pain. Once these positions are found you must loop it and live through these moments.