Week #7

Fun and games was the message that I got from Brian’s movement. He was able to incorporate so many different ideas into his dance. I used to think movement as what I was doing, but in actuality, it also is about how you move with other people. Brian’s activity showed me that moving by yourself is one thing, but moving and coordinating with the people around you really makes movement exciting. Like in previous classes when we partnered up with someone and did those activities where we played off each other’s energy, that’s something that we can’t do individually and we often forget that. Pushing off someone else and then also following their actions creates a very interesting energy and can’t really be explained in words. There’s just something about movement with another person that makes it completely different from anything else. When we do create shapes by playing off one another, we seemingly copy each other’s movement without even doing it on purpose. The other performance with the cha-cha-cha dance also brings a different light on movement with others. Instead of copying what the other person is doing, we actually plan movements so that complement the other person’s movements. I find it very interesting that the male and female have different movements, but they all have meaning. It isn’t like they’re just moving in random places, they’re moving with each other, but also against each other in a way.