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touch, breath and tuning in
On day 4 of the Skills Exchange, Clare Reynolds offered some warm up exercises with a focus on touch, increasing our awareness of our own bodies and breath, considering our responsibility to ourselves and others when in ‘service’ to dancers who have limited understanding of the moving body. In her own words she shares her thoughts:
In my work with Restoke we work a lot on ‘tuning in’ to our own bodies; as an ensemble of diverse participants; and to the sites we work in. The dancers I work with have to model what it is to fully inhabit our bodies, to make genuine and often unspoken connections and to support others to feel comfortable to do the same.
Inspired by the previous days discussions about balancing the duty of care we all hold in community dance, with artistry and integrity, I thought I’d look at some physical ways we could practice this…