I always seem to be posting about SRT classes!
This week, we focused on the spheres and globes around the body. The are situated around the skull, ribs and hips as shown on the journal picture. We worked on a partner graphic to trace these spheres of the body. The lines were continual and intertwining between one another. I felt this represented how they all work together in unison.
Our attention was also brought to the solar plexus and how deep it sits within the body. I pictured mine and a black hole swirling around within my ribcage.
Here is an excerpt taken from my journal from a SRT class. The pictures I have used are there to represent how I felt and what I experienced therefore sometimes I don't feel the need to fill my pages with words. Often, less is more.
By the time it came to perform in Bedford, a lot of us were going to be glad to see the end of the Performance Projects module because it had been so demanding of us. However, we needed to perform one last time for their students.
I spent the afternoon helping to set up the technical aspects of the performance because this had been my second role back in Coventry. I really enjoyed this role again and observing the differences between the facilities at Bedford compared to Coventry. I was surprised to hear that the students at Bedford are not given the opportunity to operate the sound and lighting equipment for themselves. We are lucky that we can take these additional skills with us when we graduate from Coventry University.
For the performance, Small Boat all pulled together to give our piece a good send off!! We regained all those qualities we had found for the original performances back in Coventry. The change in space was challenging to begin with because it was a lot smaller than what we were used to, but we managed.
Contact Improvisation
In this lesson we normally swap partners throughout the duration, however in this particular lesson
we stayed with the same partner. This has both its advantages and disadvantages I find.
Advantage- You can grasp the aim of the lesson and really understand the technique without having to then figure the same thing out with another partner. It also gives you the opportunity to experience others preferences when doing CI.
Disadvantage- You are only able to experience how one person likes to work rather than several. I feel it makes you less able to adapt to others as quickly because you have become set in your ways.
In this lesson I worked with Ben. He always educates me when I work with him and helps me improve on my technique. I have learnt that I need to keep my pelvis attached to my partner all of the time if I am going to be successful in contact improvisation. I have also learnt that I need to give even more weight into my partner so that it makes it easier for the both of us to move. Once I had improved these, we were able to move so freely and smoothly together. We both became so involved in the movement, once we started, we found it hard to stop.
In this lesson, all 3 year groups were put together. I think it was the first lesson with all of us and therefore I was looking forward to working with people I hadn't worked with before. I made a conscious effort to work with as many people as I could in order to gain new experiences. a lot of the work was similar to what I had done before but I realised that each time brings new challenges and obstacles. Even if it has been done before you can still learn from it. I think that was the most poignant moment for me, not the movement itself but the realisation.
We tried helping each other to the floor by hold the hips and falling to the floor. I was trying to do this at arms length which made it difficult. To make it easier for myself and a partner I had to be closer to their body. Once I had grasped this, it was much easier and the movement was more fluid.
The post that I am currently writing are taken from quite a while back and I just haven't had time to type them on to my blog. The majority of post will be taken from my journal and expanded on.
I always feel that SRT is very clear to me and I can vividly see the images we are creating from the partner graphics and the moving. In this particular lesson I was drawn to the imagery I created when thinking about the hip sockets opening when working alone. I pictured them to be like butterfly wings opening and closing. I could feel the valley spaces widening between my bones and joints.
This feeling was reinforced when we carried out a partner graphic on the legs. My legs felt like they were hanging from the torso. It felt like there was nothing between my legs and my torso, my hips felt weightless.
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