The Delve Deeper - Choreographic Improvisation workshop will work more deeply with one or more of the tools for noticing and sourcing movement from any part of the body, tools such as: follow only one surface of the body at a time, constantly changing the tone or effort; or... bring two bones towards or away from each other, constantly changing the speed and duration. Each focus is activated by touch from a partner and then further explored in solo. These tools are initially about giving the dancer ways to make movement. With practice, they inform a dancer's decision-making process, leaving their mark on her perception, becoming ways to notice the movement being formed. They are concrete tools to pay attention to the act of dancing, and give a vast palette of ways to be interested. By focussing their attention on how the movements are forming, the dancer is constantly confronted with the present moment - with creating the movement rather than representing it.
As a practice, this work can deflect the dancer from their habitual movement pathways, enlarge their range of movement choices, and place them more solidly in the present.