Thursday 12 January 2012

Connectivities: duets

Embodied transformations

Working with a partner, support their movement – stroking, holding, guiding, following your partners movement with your hands. Guiding their emerging solo, and echoing it with your touch and in your body.

When you are ready exchange roles - passing from guide to guided.

As the dance between you develops and extends let a duet take shape. Following and leading blur. A dance with or without touch/contact is formed.

                         Note how this dance resides within you....

then, when you are ready - drift away from your partner and explore this dance as a solo... how does it reside in your body?

then when ready find a new partner.. here allow a different dance to form – informed by the previous duet and altered by this new partners dance…
       and again move to solo’s, and then in time, new duets…

then, following one more solo re-find your first partner –
re-find your first dance,

                      Noting what has changed, how things have moved                 on,             transformed.
                     Note what remains, what remains anew...

inspired by Eva Karzcaq (ID workshop Dec 12th, 2011)

2 comments:

Ulrika said...

About duets. There is a possible to blend even more. To no longer know who´s intention it was.

http://www.skälva.se/?p=116

Vida Midgelow said...

And, as the dance emerges between you...
this dance that comes from the space between - existing in the 'inbetween' - we can still note that ways in which this dance is particular to this partnership, this moment. Coming from and because of these two people dancing (and it will be both familiar and altogether different next time too!)