In today's lesson we were looking at contact improvisation as it is a useful technique that we may want to include in our devised piece. We started by watching a short video of a man and women doing a contemporary dance. This was to give us an example of some of the sort of steps and connections that we could use, although obviously this was more dance-like and fully choreographed.
We got into pairs and were given a few minutes to choreograph a short piece of contact improvisation that had a story. Ellie and I decided to do a car crash, so we were almost reaching to each other at the same time as being pushed away from each other, like you would in an accident. After watching everyone's we went back and tried to add in some kind of weight transference where one person was supporting the other.
I think after this we would find it easier to create a piece of contact improvisation although I'm not sure how good we would be at fully improvising as we are not completely confident with this skill yet.
Contact improvisation - slavery
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