In this weeks session it was mainly involved through the aspects of space and time. Our first exercise was for us to walk around in the space however move to a spot where we could hear something. For example at one moment a train went past so I walked to the window to see as that’s where my ears took me. The second exercise was different as it was all about where my eyes took me. Throughout the exercise there was not a specific pattern in what made me want to move. For example sometimes I moved in spaces where no one was in and then sometimes I moved into places where there was already a clump of people. I believe this exercise was useful because it made me explore the space before I improvised in it. Zaporah says ‘the first thing I do is to walk around that space because every space has its power points’ (Zaporah, cited in De spain, 2014, 109) That exercise fits in with that quote as I was discovering the space before improvising by slowly walking around it.
We then discussed time. I found out that there are two different types of time, which are body and site time. ‘Site time, but then there’s body time’ (Halphrin, cited in De spain, 2014, 115) body time is the time our body thinks and site time is correct time. We challenged how close our sense time was to clock time. We did this by completing an exercise where we sat down, and Kayla put on the stop watch two minutes and we had to get up when we thought the two minutes were up. The site time for me was longer than my sense time as I stood up way before the timer went off. We then did this activity but walking instead. My sense time was much closer to site time as I was only a few seconds out. I don’t really know how this happened. It might have been because this time I was moving around the space and before I was just sitting down.
We then moved on to doing a partner exercise which explored our own timings of beginnings, middles and ends. I improvised infront of Rachel three times and as I was dancing I said when I was changing to the from the beginning to the middle section and then from the middle section to the end. From the beginning two trys at this exercise Rachel informed me that both times my endings were much shorter than my beginnings and middles. I think this was because I sped up my endings as I thought I would be over the 2 minute time limit. So then on the first try I tried to even out the three sections. It was a success as the third try the ending was longer and didn’t seem as rushed. I dod the same for Rachel and her pattern was that she had a longer beginning and she said she thought this was because she finds it hard to establish the movement in the first place.
We then finished the session off by doing a score. The rules of this score involved we always had to dance in a duet, trio or a quartet. This meant that we had to work with others and to feed off each other. I found this exciting, as I never knew what would happen as in what other dancers would move like. It was fun to develop their actions and to continue to move and change their actions.