Recap of 2-hour class at City Life Wellness in Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, April 12, 2012.
Warm-up
- Investigation of Body, manipulations
- Pulling Bodies through spirals
- Bouncing up and down [Stefan Fabry]
- Walking
- released, sensation of as little effort as possible, falling forward
- not a New York walk
- faster
- faster
- released, sensation of as little effort as possible, falling forward
- Brushing against, back of head, having people fall [Martin Keogh]
- then falling with
- then following down
- then pushing into to get back up
Practicing getting up and down with people
Elevator [Gretchen Spiro]
- elevator plus tipping and rolling off
Tabletop pt. 1 — tipping progression
- pushing down on
- Overdancer A moves self to tipping point, slides off underdancer B
- B can help A by going down, then go into a surfing move
- A tells B to tip A
- B will help down
- generally tipping is easier when you turn a leg out at 90 degrees
- B tips A back and forth, trying to keep A on
Tabletop pt. 2 — integration
- A plays around on B
- gradually B becomes more active, integrates other movements
- Stefan Fabry leg trick (extending leg straight back to break a fall)
Talk, check-in
Passing around 2×4 [Stefan Fabry]
- person stands in middle up straight, we pass this person around
Moving point of contact through torso
- rolling up and down on wall on back
- try on side
- move all around
- with partner in figure 8
- make sure you’re peeling away from the point, but keeping weight into it
- especially with the lower back
- let it go to an open dance
- wait; inhale, exhale and release into the point of contact