Week 3

This week was my first week of attending classes due to the university not fully processing my enrollment and confirming my inclusion on the course, we began the lesson with a warm up exercise, DODGEBALL! i loved this game as a child, we used to play this game in the playground and i was always pretty good. This exercise warmed up our bodies and prepared us for physical activity, but not only that it invoked memories of being a child that i think opened up the creativity inside of us, warming up our creative brains if you will.

 The lesson this week focused on memory and autobiography, we began the session by being shown about using different types of techniques from which to gather ideas in performance and devising, namely, wrestling. Solomon started this wrestling exercise by showing us a unique way to move about the space in the form of a move called 'the shrimp', this is a move that gathers the bodies energy to break free of a grip by an opponent, this felt like a totally new approach that i could use in my work because instead of focusing on things like memory of visual, i was focusing on how to use a fighting move to gather a new perspective on devising and idea generating.

We got into pairs and did some grappling which for me was a great experience as it immediately surpassed the boundaries of personal space and i got to know my partner on a level that advanced our interaction, not having to deal with the usual politeness and custom of greeting and getting to know someone. With the movements we used they were all about action following re-action, as each move was fed off of the previous move from your partner.The unplanned nature of this exercise, allowed us to improvise on a level that very helpful and i can see how this concept would help very much in the devising process. 


Pearson, Mike. (2006), In Comes I, Performance, Memory and Landscape, Exeter: University of Exeter Press