Week 4 at UCC

Monday started off with the staple massage and warm up following the closure of last Friday’s exercise which gave me great reflection on how the exercise works best with simplicity and gay abandon to what you’ll do next. There was not any other aspect of Monday’s class that I could reflect upon.

Tuesday however was more interesting and exciting. We began with a long warm up in breathing, hip location (And discussion of the hips in terms of society and anatomy). I did begin to tire of the exercise after a bit and yearned for something more practical. Fortunately we moved onto another ensemble exercise of walking in a numbered pattern back and forth across the room. This was a nice challenge in terms of focus without looking at your ensemble for support too much. Reflecting on it, I think of the satisfaction gained from doing the exercise properly not only from the ensemble but the “instigator” (as in who started us off in our steps). We then moved onto a new variant of lasts week being musical of being lost however we had to incorporate the previous stepping exercise into our short piece. Reflecting back onto our “Wizard Of Oz-esque” piece it given me a great sense of achievement in working alongside others in a short space of time where everyone knew what they were doing and that we were all constructing upon the idea in better ways than before. It was a piece that we felt was solid.

Seeing the other groups preform their new “lost” routine provided some different and entertaining perspectives that worked well to each ensemble members strengths.

Friday’s class started with our regular massages which upon reflection made me realize…they’re really enjoyable and i’m getting rather used to them. We then came onto an exercise simple in theory but vast in possibility, we simply had to establish contact with everyone in the room and simply state “Look at me”. I couldn’t find any profound meaning behind the exercise unfortunately so I played around with the various emotions you could have with telling a room to look at you. We embarked upon an unintentional improv exercise as the result of not going out in our individual groups to a public area and observing it to later act out. Even though the exercise was entertaining I feel it will be more worth while and interesting once the groups go into the feild