Hi all,
I used the Sunday Jam to try out teaching the breathing+little captain work that I am bringing to the Open Training on Saturday, March 27.
Here is my pathway:
1) Beginning with the hands- open one palm to the ceiling, cradle that arm's elbow in your free palm; meditate on the weight of the elbow in your supporting palm, feel energy up from your elbow outward through the open palm. Meditate on your breath. Beginning with your pinky, inhale and fold in your fingers to envelope your palm. Exhale and again beginning with your pinky, send your fingers away from your palm. Let the inhale/fold and exhale/unfold initiate an spiral in/out of your wrist and forearm. Repeat. Other side.
2) Finding a through line between scapula, elbow, and palm- remove your supporting palm from its elbow; continue to fold your pinky into your palm and unfold away from your palm; let your the spaces between your ribs compress when you fold, let those spaces expand when you extend. Repeat. Other side. Both sides together.
3) Finding a pull and push throughout the whole body- standing, continue to spiral in and out, always beginning with your little captain. Abandon the instructions.
After this warm-up, I offered the jam a "fussy baby score." The fussy baby score is simply a "pause button" in a dance in which the dancer interrupts his pathway and then begins again after having held the pause at least a second. Its called fussy baby because the image is that the baby will fuss (interrupt itself) until it is satisfied that it has found a pathway of ease. I'd like to do this as a warm up at the next lab.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Workshop #1 Description
Scheduled for Outer Space 3/27/2010 7-10pm Sliding Scale Suggested donation $5-$500
CI Juice Lab #1
CI Juice Lab invites you to sweat out some serious juice. Liquify your spine. Yield. Push. Reach out and bring your flava. Hook, envelope, and pull your parters using fundamental and evolving elements of the developmental score, noticing habits and choices in between--where that sticky residue is. So Bring your juicylicious booty and we'll work some skills, mix it up, and dance our big hearts out.
CI = Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation = A dynamic movement form in which two or more bodies interact spontaneously with each other by maintaining contact and simultaneously interpreting the common parameters of gravity, weight, momentum, friction and inertia to achieve continuous flow. Contact Improv is dance-sport-martial art-meditationrolled into one. As the term contact improv implies, this movement form encourages the drawing together of bodies in a creative and collaborative context. Contact improvisation provides opportunities for personal, social and cultural differences to be expressed on common ground, through physical parameters that are common to all human beings.
This workshop is for folks experienced with the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation.
CI Juice Lab #1
CI Juice Lab invites you to sweat out some serious juice. Liquify your spine. Yield. Push. Reach out and bring your flava. Hook, envelope, and pull your parters using fundamental and evolving elements of the developmental score, noticing habits and choices in between--where that sticky residue is. So Bring your juicylicious booty and we'll work some skills, mix it up, and dance our big hearts out.
CI = Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation = A dynamic movement form in which two or more bodies interact spontaneously with each other by maintaining contact and simultaneously interpreting the common parameters of gravity, weight, momentum, friction and inertia to achieve continuous flow. Contact Improv is dance-sport-martial art-meditationrolled into one. As the term contact improv implies, this movement form encourages the drawing together of bodies in a creative and collaborative context. Contact improvisation provides opportunities for personal, social and cultural differences to be expressed on common ground, through physical parameters that are common to all human beings.
This workshop is for folks experienced with the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Little Captain and His Envelope
Lab Recap:
Before warming up with the developmental score (see below), we opened the lab with an exploration of initiating from the pinky finger. a.k.a. the little captain. We began by a micro envelopment that began with initiating from our pinky. We layered on the motion of pulling our pinky into or sending our pinky away from our center. We abandoned our pinkies for a time during our work on envelopment. We recalled Margaret's observation that envelopment is a reach and a pull. We used language to talk about our observations of enveloping pathways. We danced and witnessed duets that grew out of our work on enveloping.
Observations:
We observed that enveloping can make use of the processes of yielding into and yield away from, which was put into high relief by the very athletic double envelopments we witnessed in Margaret and JulieAnn's duet. It feels like Juice has more work to do in defining our terms: envelopment does not seem to be a new "developmental" possibility, but rather a pathway into discovering new opportunities to yield into or away from and so on in the developmental score.
The pinky work seemed to open up spiral pathways.
Thoughts on this week:
I'd like to learn more about the developmental score. I also really like focusing on technique toward the end that I learn more about the developmental score, like I could really go for some crescent rolls--putting the little captain in charge. Your thoughts?
Before warming up with the developmental score (see below), we opened the lab with an exploration of initiating from the pinky finger. a.k.a. the little captain. We began by a micro envelopment that began with initiating from our pinky. We layered on the motion of pulling our pinky into or sending our pinky away from our center. We abandoned our pinkies for a time during our work on envelopment. We recalled Margaret's observation that envelopment is a reach and a pull. We used language to talk about our observations of enveloping pathways. We danced and witnessed duets that grew out of our work on enveloping.
Observations:
We observed that enveloping can make use of the processes of yielding into and yield away from, which was put into high relief by the very athletic double envelopments we witnessed in Margaret and JulieAnn's duet. It feels like Juice has more work to do in defining our terms: envelopment does not seem to be a new "developmental" possibility, but rather a pathway into discovering new opportunities to yield into or away from and so on in the developmental score.
The pinky work seemed to open up spiral pathways.
Thoughts on this week:
I'd like to learn more about the developmental score. I also really like focusing on technique toward the end that I learn more about the developmental score, like I could really go for some crescent rolls--putting the little captain in charge. Your thoughts?
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