Contact Improvisation classes with Sole Medina @ ÇATI

notes by Meral Aslan

Day 1

• individual warm up
• Relaxing and Dropping the weight : We lied on the floor (supine), knees bent (one foot apart from the hip)

          Exercises:

      1.We pressed  a little bit on the sole of the feet  and we shaked the body forward and backwards(towards feet fingers and towards hip). We added head to this movement turning it right left     right left.(5 to 10 min)

           2.In the same position this time arms long reaching to ceiling, we imagined  holding a ball. In each exhale we imagined the ball getting bigger, bigger and bigger until our hands got close to the ground.This way we felt the real weight of our arms (We checked how the weight of arms differed in different angles)

          Note: We opened the jaw and said “haaaaaa” to deepen the weight (hip and jaw is connected/ related)). It is useful to say ‘haaaaa’ whenever you want to feel more grounded and connected to floor.

            3.We moved  to X position on the floor. As we exhale we opened the body, in inhale we contracted, got smaller in space(cenin position).      

           4.Like an animal, we moved on our hands(large on the ground) and feet (we were on the  balls of feet (the bottom of feet fingers) not the above part of the foot) in the space.

Okumaya devam et →