Performance Projects

Score with the company

Strategies for joining another person's activity

Do the same thing.........................................................................one person walking up and down

two people walking up and down

Set up a related activity in harmony with the first..................run up and down and cross their path

Set up a similar activity in rhythmic counterpoint...................walk, turn

Set up a contrasting activity........................................................stand still

Help what is going on................................................................... tow them along with the rope

Obstruct person's activity with a contrary one........................fill their pathway with furniture

take the object they were working with

Change the environment within which someone is working....switch of the light

turn on the radio

Exist in another time or dimension........................................... be present as a ghost

Start simply run walk roll

allow changes in response to what is occurring

(in joining and being joined)

Conflict as well as collaboration often gives sharpness to the work

Reflection

My company saw it like an opened score. We played with objects such as chairs and table. We changed the environment by switching off the lights. We started to feel ourselves like one big part. It was nice to play with different activities and being involved to continuous creative process.

Class with Sarah Watley 27/10/2011

Experiential anatomy with Polly Hudson

''Containers of organs influence your movements''.
We worked in pairs:

• Let your partner to lay down still on his back.
• Put your arms on his stomach and rock him carefully from side to side.
• With your arms try to find organs: lungs, liver, heart. (Imagine that you feel them).
• Finally, help your partner to start rolling from organs.

This exercise helped me to be concentrated. When I was receiving this exercise, I felt like my body is a jelly container. After that, I had the feeling to expand myself as much as it is possible.

Looking for right place to stay....

African Dance

Session with Katye Coe

Performance Projects

Denise is a movement artist, choreographer, dancer, singer and mbira player with ten years experience performing and teaching traditional and contemporary pan-African dance.Co-founder of Tolo Ko Tolo fusion dance company and principle dancer in the international world music outfit, Baka Beyond. Recently a member of Sakoba Dance Theatre, Denise also performs with Spirit Talk Mbira and works as a solo artist and on various collaborative projects including the dance film Erw Dinmael and the issue based dance piece Obey the Wind in 2010.A recipient of one of ADAD’s Trailblazers fellowships and supported by Dance Bristol, Denise has trained in African dance in the UK, Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Zimbabwe and with the Baka hunter gatherers in the Cameroonian rainforest. In 2006 Denise completed contemporary dance training. She is also a student of Aikido and has recently completed Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life movement training in non-stylized and environmental movement.

Experiential anatomy

We had to work with a partner: trying to find bones in his skull. Explore. If you can not feel bones with your fingers, you can imagine them. Pictures of the skull were really helpful in exploring person's skull.

SRT

• Movement without force
• Awareness what is around us
• Work with image
• Senses and breath
• '' In a space there is no up and down!''
• Letting go tension of the body
• Multidirectional awareness
• SRT is never ending process

2nd Year!

Make it or break it!