Working together: contact improvisation - 06/03/2015

This class was all about contact improvisation. The main idea was that you can use pulling, pushing and spinning with the pair and with the group. When I worked with a pair I felt that the movement was forced in the beginning because I´m not used to being so close to somebody and trusting on her was hard. I think I got more comfortable being so close to somebody and I started to trust on the partner already during the class. I guess you have to do lot of contact improvisation practices to get used to it and find the "normal" and natural way of moving with the other. But sometimes you just click with somebody. It is really different and interesting to work with different kind people because sometimes you might have same kind of body language and both of you wants to be "the leader" so then there is no flow in the movement and the movement is forced. I think it was much easier to work with the group and have contact when we were on the floor. I think it was because of the support from the floor and when being up you have lots of opportunities that makes you overwhelmed. It was same with the pair. We did´t stay up that long and going back up was really hard and we did´t really do that. 

In the practice we stayed at the same place but also moved from the other side of the room to the other side. When working with the group we had to move across the room and we had to imagine that there is a strong wind against us. It was really hard to combine the contact and the image. Sometimes I also thought that I was left alone in a group  because I was´t in a contact with somebody for a while. After the practice I heard that you don´t have to be in contact the whole time that you can get separated and then you can return to the group when you feel like it.

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