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Saturday 3 December 2016

In the 3rd Element we explored how we interact and dance with each other.

I developed open scores. I found it useful to spend some time dancing with each young person and developing scores accordingly.

There were some challenges negotiating the different scores for the different people in the group - e.g. some people found upbeat music as a way into creative movement; whilst others preferred calmer, relaxing music to move with.
This requires alternating the music we listen to / feel the vibrations from, between different kinds of upbeat and relaxing music… I also noticed however, the importance to go with the flow as much as possible - e.g. - if a particular style of music was working for most of the group, to continue with that style of music, though perhaps within that having different songs to try to engage the others in the group.


The young dancers


One young person attended the 1st and 2nd sessions. He enjoyed upbeat music and really engaged with a score where he was swirled around the room on his back (legs being held by support staff). I noticed there were some times he would do this score by himself, though mainly he liked working in pairs. This young person did engage with the relaxing balloon score, for short periods. With the young person, I along with 2 support staff, created a score - we were all either lying or sitting on the floor, connected by either hands or legs - we moved together, whereby the young person was a ‘boat’ and the others were ‘water’ - this is a score I would like to develop in future sessions.


There was a young person who attended the 2nd and 3rd sessions. She liked to dance and fill the space on her own. She especially liked dancing to upbeat pop music. I felt some connection when holding out my forearm for her to grip (experienced by myself and 2 support staff) and she would move away, and reconnect as and when she wished, enjoying dancing to the music... it would have been great to have a different space with her kind of music… and for others to come back and forth into her space too. I would like to explore multiple spaces in future sessions


One young person attended the 3rd session. She engaged with the 3 Elements through Classical Western and Eastern music. With a support worker we did a score using the parachute rolled up on the ground, the young person navigated her way over this different surface. She did this several times, moving around the room. I would like to develop this score in future sessions.

Another young person attended the 1st and 3rd sessions. We created a new score, which we repeated on both days using different music. The score was sitting back to back - on the 1st day this was a relaxing activity. On the 2nd day of this score, we were listening to African drumming; we incorporated this in how we moved together. It was really interesting to feel how we connected and how we both created rhythms for the other to respond to. I would like to develop this score in future sessions.


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