Familiar Places Revisited
This exercise is a solo practice. Choose a space that you feel connected to, a familiar space such as a park you visited as a child, playground, or natural environment. Sit within the space. Take in the space.
Where are you? What did you use this for in the past? Who had access to this space? What does this space mean to you? How do you interact with others in this space? How do you usually move through this space?
Inhabit the space the way you do every day. Move through the space. Walk through the space. Touch the space. Document your findings.
Notice: patterns of movement
parts of the space you touch
posture of the body
the tempo your body moves
the way your body reacts to other people’s bodies
Move in new ways that challenge the patterns discovered above.
Suggestions: Move throughout space in new patterns of movement
Explore opposite movements from what you do everyday
Let different parts of your body touch the surfaces of the space
Transform the posture of your body as you move
Change the tempo of your body as it moves
Share observations and discoveries.
