This was only my second time in dance improvisation and of course I couldn’t participate in my first one  and couldn’t participate in this one due to injury so everything I write again will be visual aspects and what I have seen the other dancers perform and also a bit about the reading and how you use the reading to put into your movement aspects.
This session was all about intention, attention and awareness. what your intention is but where your attention is and how you are aware of this. The main practice task that was given was 3 up 2 down which required 5 dancers to stand in line and of course three dancers would have to be stood up right and two must always be down. this really reflects on the main focus of the readings. you had toffee when there was 3 dancers stood up and 2 bent you had feel the awareness of the other people surrounding you and have your attention on your intention which was to make sure there was 3 dancers stood and 2 bent. This exercises was developed into 3 running forwarded 2 always running backwards as well.

This was my first week of improvisation, I went in with no expectation’s and I honestly thought we would be left to creative task and dancing around the space a lot more but in this case it wasn’t that, although I couldn’t dance due to injury the lesson was still pleasant. There was many individual exercises and then also group work as well, nothing was set we was to improvise movement wise but the task weren’t very dance based.

-Awareness of the body with out being sight specific(eyes closed) using sound and feeling to help generate sound by yourself and one another. (creating boundaries)

-Improv of different body parts i.e. (feet going up head going down, arms like icicles and legs like spaghetti ) Exploring different levels, different ways of doing movement on different levels speed. Exploring movement when the body becomes restricted. Exploring the out of the ordinary and falling away from your own habits.

Bending vs standing-

Awareness of others, audiences prospective how I could see there intentions by looking at them, how you could see on their faces what they were going to do and there hesitant, some of the dancers said they took orders in a way from audience members faces as they could tell there wasn’t three forward and two backwards,

The main reading was focused on Debroah hay which was focused on intention, attention and awareness. (What your intention is, but your attention is somewhere else but your aware of this).