These exercises enhance each participant s awareness of their and their partners body dimensions. This helps to attain a better understanding of contact and enables the potential to explore new variations. Having completed the warm-up exercises we move into improvisation. Absence of structure enables participants to integrate all the patterns they have been working on to inter-link and mesh together digesting into their physical memory. Each partnership will therefore be a unique moment in time.
Partnerships work at their own pace and within their own physical limits.
There is no need to keep up with the teacher s ideas, or follow an external rhythm which could remove focus and attention and hamper movement. The purpose of these workshops is to bring each participant as close as possible to the movements that they make. The partnerships reflect the movements and bring them to consciousness, opening them up to more variety and possibilities. Through improvisation one can observe and absorb the kinds of movements the participants tend to feel more comfortable with. More information and embellishments is then added, such as sensing the shifting of the centre of gravity under our partner when we life them.