news from the aep…
play, connecting, trust and listening
Today, we began the AEP Skills Exchange with Hannah Robertshaw and Tim Casson taking us through a warm-up to put us in the shoes of the dancers we work with. We considered:
- Being together and being alert – how do we communicate the need to stay connected with the process to our dancers through interactive tasks
- Opening the space for contribution, accumulating movement and being responsive to people’s movements offers
- Simplicity of instructions – setting clear rules and seeing how easy it is to develop relationships and movement material out of very simple gestures such as walk, sit down, stand still
- Conversational movement – listening to and respecting each other
- Exploring our ability to trust and let go of control by giving another person the role of the driver – how do we as artists step into the passive role
- Working as a team, lead and follow and democratic leadership