Rise week 1 Report.

The Dance of Qualities. An ongoing movement research. Begin moving. Allow it to settle into the body. Notice the quality. Play with moving the quality into different parts of the body, localising or letting take the whole body. Change quality. Allow it to settle. Play with it. Move back to the first quality. Continue to explore. Try extreme changes of qualities. To begin in principle remain focused, gentle and small. Allow it to move the whole body. Remain playful and warm up the body.

An Idea : A culture of Gentleness. This is not a directive about what we should do but a suggestion, a question. What is the relationship between yourself and your experience, your emotions, your thoughts, judgements and ideas? The important idea is that we have a relationship with these things, not that some are good and others not so good, or that these things are fixed and can describe who we are. We are moveable and adaptable, aware and alive.

Take an exercise, a movement. You don´t have to understand it completely, just something about it. Put what you understand about it into movement. Show it to you partner. Watch your partner. Take the new information and repeat explore. Take turns in witnessing and interpreting. As you continues to exchange notice how witnessing continues as you act. It is the constant. Give that energy so that as you move between witnessing and action the witness is always there. Enjoy moving.

Swing your arms, punching the air infront of you. Speed up, slow down. As you speed up remain relaxed in the rest of your body. Notice when you clench your shoulders or your legs. Let them relax. Use only what is necessary.

The Dance of Changes. Find something. Explore it. When the bell rings change completely, a new state, a new dance, immediately. Inhabit with you whole body. Allow your eyes to remain alive. Notice when your attention becomes internal. Notice when you lose sight of the room. Try to remain in touch with both the internal world and the room, the people, the movement around you. Be inside and outside at the same time. Again the witness energy remains as you change, the room changes. Give that energy. The witness flies effortlessly through the changes.

Performance practise. Formally walk out in front of the audience. Allow yourself to do nothing, Witness yourself being witnessed. Walk back to your place. Witness the whole process from being in the audience to standing in front of the audience. Does your heart beat faster? Can you remain inside yourself throughout . What changes occur? Is it enough to watch to see others?

What is going on inside your body? How does it feel to be seen? Can you remain fluid? Notice when you are fixed. What is the difference between still and being frozen, fixed in an attitude. Can you feel those things? What images arise? Is it possible to remain aware of the whole space throughout the process?

Sit in front of a partner on a chair. Show them something. A word an action. Change roles. Become the witness. Where are you watching from? Infront of yourself? From inside you head.

From you chest? Is it possible to be neither reaching out or disappear inside, but simply be in your eyes and invite information, people, poems in?

Rest. Practise allowing the body to be inactive. A heart beat is two thirds resting. Inactivity

allows the body to recover and its unconcious actives to aline and happen. Allow space internally.