Monday 1st December 2014 – Week Ten
When attending the lesson today we mainly focused on our scores and polishing them up ready for the open studios on Thursday. When focusing more deeply on the score we realised that we had some issues with it. The first being that we replaced the amount of lifts we had to see before going back into the jam. At first it was three lifts, but we changed it to two lifts as people were standing out of the jam too long. We also decided that the audience should have a say in what we do. So at the start of the score we asked the audience to pick a number. Half the group asked for a number ranging from one to five and the other half asked for a number ranging from one to ten. The numbers indicated how many people we danced with before we could leave the score. As a group we felt this worked so much better with both halves of the group having different ranges of numbers as we could balance out the number going in and out. Thinking about the lifts, we had to make sure that we constantly had the lifts in the back of our head mainly because we didn’t want people waiting on the outside for a long period of time. We went through the score a few times in the lesson, whilst getting feedback and reorganising things to fit with the score.
In the open studios on Thursday the 4th December 2014, I felt that it went really well. At the start we had a soothing start to the jam which got us geared up and ready for the score. As the audience was arriving I didn’t really realise they were watching at the time, I think because I was so focused on what I was doing, I wanted to achieve my best and see how far I could go in the score we set. I feel I gave and took weight well, but not as much as I have in lesson, this could be due to having an audience in the room and feeling cautious?
Throughout this ongoing module Contact Improvisation I feel like I have grown from the first session. I feel now I am more confident in the group now and feel I could work with different people in the group without feeling shy or intimidated. Throughout this research lab I have felt the readings have given me a much bigger understanding on how I view and critique pieces of contact improvisation.