Dance Training Journal 3: class on 1/26/15

Dance Training Journal 3: class on 1/26/15

The group "copy/mime" activity was a lot of fun. One thing I noted was that it was difficult to gauge what the OTHER dancers were/were not capable of and that it was vital to see the realtive positions of footwork to effectively copy certain steps.

The mirroring with successive delay exercise was nice. It was pretty novel to be able to do mirroring with "time lag" I did notice that my partner of the day was not as comfortable taking the lead as I was and passed it back often. It was also interesting how she "mirrored" us so that we had a greater distance between each other, which helped her due to our height/size differential. Our goal was to lead and follow with total personal confidence, and overall that worked pretty well

in the "reality of self" meditative practice, i did feel a greater connection to my body/emotions. It was interesting, as much of the class reported that theiy were usually very neurotic persons that have trouble "letting thoughts go" it was also helpful to be able to feel the weight of our own bodies, and learn to make more sense of them.

The spontaneous dance exercise with a african drum moving us to the beat was a blast. I seemed drawn to scatter around lots of fun ways from it. One thing i noted was how the starting stance i picked hi, low, or medium would have a large impact on what moves I was able to USE.

During the group portion of this dance, I started to "hunt" a fellow male class member. It was pretty intuitive as just keeping footwork distance from him was old hat after college.  I also noted that while dancing, i was trying to "Lock in" to certain moves, but i was only able to do them on the fly, as opposed to pre-plan.