The Bridge Youth Dance Company
We made a dance to the All Saints song, Never Ever yesterday, using the groups' enjoyment of making strong shapes. It began with stillnesses contributed from each dancer, and built up to a crescendo of flowing group improvisation. It was really lovely and we enjoyed observing a gentle blossoming of the group's dancing.
Contact
I've just noticed how the two groups planning has been structured directly opposite to each each other! Not intentional I assure you! In Contact we started exploring ways we could make contact with the floor- especially using parts of our bodies that don't usually touch the floor! And shifting up and down the vertical plane. We explored being low but feeling very light, and being high but feeling very heavy, and vice versa. It was so funny how every time we went low whilst feeling high we all sped up!
We then used some Haiku to create duets which led to quartets. They were so satisfying to watch and had 2 completely different feels- one very seabased and windswept; one very animalistic, warm and controlled.
Haughton School:
If I hear "Can we vote now?" one more time! Ha ha ha. Haughton are obsessed with Strictly Come Dancing!! So we have compromised and have been exploring partner dancing through counterbalances. With yesterday being their first exploration of giving weight to their partner they did incredibly well. Everybody made a travelling duet with 3 counterbalances in 3 different places in the space. It was a lot of fun!
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