Lab 2 wasn't as emotionally intense as Lab 1, blood sugar was low and I was tired. Still I proceeded to see what comes out of me in different states of being. Maida asked us to bring an object that was important to us, this lab was to be about our personal experience. I realized for me almost all of my improvisations are from personal history, but bringing in an object definetly focused the subject matter. Again surprised at its emotional content, (the coolest thing about improvising!) this one was a deepening of the first lab I did. I at first was weary to bring in my object, but putting my judgement away I just went with what it brough out in me. Coming to a place of sadness in the improv and ending in that place for a time I was curious what was going to happen next. How does one move on from sadness. Well I jsut did. I stood up and started a non emotional body part exploration. Again working with this idea of body part intitiation versus full body movement. I started in my feet, then it moved up to my knees, trying not to use my arms which I also initiate from often, then hips. I loved dancing to the Ravi Shankar music, satisfying one of my goals to dance with music from a different country. This movement felt ok, new somehow, I was trying to stay with it. Then finally getting up to my arms and then head, at some point shifting focus into head and tail opposition which I love! Nt home place in my body. Then I tried to incorporate knees head and tail to see what that variation would do to my movement. Still not as interesting to me as head/tail initiation, but I'm trying to bring in more variety to my dancing, so for now even if the flavor isn't incredible I'm trying to explore.
I've included the part of the video that was me talking, turn up the volume and you can hear me. The body part dancing was nice, and the slow walking with the teddy bear is also good, but on film not so interesting. I like the state of being I'm in talking about the tree.
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