Dance Training journal 10: 2/13/15

Dance Training journal 10: 2/13/15

Giving your weight to a partner.

We practiced a meditation on our personal weight/comfort zone. Then we did an "energy exercise" by rubbing our palms together and "feeling" shared energy by holding hands near a partner. It worked well when I did it to demo with robin, but my first partner rachel, didn't seem to "get it". We then rubbed our palms and "traced" our partner. Rachel seemed both not to give off an aura, nor be able to detect when i gave one off while tracing her. Our next exercise was the "wavy back rub" we sat back to back with a partner near our height, and traded putting weight on each other's backs/feeling the balence. my partner had an injury and was smaller than me, so I took most of the weight, and we tried shifting back and forth, rotating, etc. Was a lot of fun.

We then tried. "london bridge" by clasping arms, and leaning back. I had to adjust to leaning back without putting to much weight on my partners, which was work, but manageable. we tried to go up and down to floor in this manner, in a coordinated fashion. We also did it one armed, crossed and "alternated" hands in a kinda dance way. We then switched partners a few times, to practice the technique on new people of different sizes/weights/strengths. A bit of work to adjust that fast, but manageable. Finally, we did a "dance" where we could mix and match movements. I led a bit, and while rachel, partnered with me tried to follow, she was a tad stiff. Ah well. Was a good exercise overall.