Developing Developments

hmmm. I had a lot of fun at the lab today. But, I sometimes have the desire to spend some time exploring other things....i think pushing in particular. I was thinking yesterday about the act of pushing and how much it is part of the contact improv vocabulary. You have to push to find a point of contact with a partner and to remain upright-and find that meeting of energy. I remember doing some exercises for finding pushing and resisting pushing (pushing back) with Andrew Harwood and Nita Little-well they came to mind last nite. And I thought, how "juicy" this would be if we combined even more of this vacuuming with more pushing. I know vacuuming is kinda like this push-pull dynamic-but what about push-push- and then finding the vaccum to lead you somewhere new.

I think of the developmental score as "developments". There was one week that we has talked about which elements we as dancers found as habits and which elements (of the developmental score) we found we were doing with certain partners. I thought this was really helpful information.

So, in retrospect, I think my desires for breaking down the developmental score stems from finding methods to explore these actions-some of them being more helpful, more difficult or left out more depending on comfort, habits, and the duet with your partner.

I have also become interested in finding new ways to sense and feel these actions-soft and hard-light, and energetic-so there is more of a range of dynamics within these developments.

anyhoo-just wanted to write alittle- I had to process some of the things I was feeling last nite.

Thanks allllll!!!!!