Movin' and Shakin' those Ventrals and Dorsals

  So. Contact improv. Visually, to me, contact improv is all about the movement of the body in tandem with the movement of somebody else. You feed and go off of each other's touch and movement and create from there without words. Only your bodies. Oo. Sounds kinda saucy. ANYWAYS. Watching a few other videos, contact improv is obviously about more than just moving with somebody else and making stuff up. After watching several videos, I feel like a big part of contact improv is community. A lot of examples I saw online showed large groups of people doing contact improv together, even if they were still in duos, and several videos showed the people practicing, showed them hanging out, eating together, etc. These people are finding connection with others without speech, they are just fully experiencing each other in the moment and pushing and pulling with them like the moon. They are connected to each other and create something together. It is unique to the individuals, and unique to t...

We are moving and rolling! I was not anticipating the soreness I am feeling from doing somersaults, but lo and behold, I am sore. Specifically, my lower back is sore. I don't know what I was thinking or expecting, but I really wasn't expecting soreness lol.  I am having a lot of fun with the things we're doing though. I've never done any dance classes or anything with the body, but I do enjoy moving my body. Whenever I've been in a show, I've always enjoyed learning and doing choreography, I enjoy running and other various activities that push the body, etc. Doing light tumbling has been really exciting for me. There have definitely been moments of fear or hesitation, but it's mostly excitement. Nervousness and excitement are just the same emotion though, just perceived differently given your perspective and circumstance. Trying out the dive rolls yesterday was super fun for me. There are obviously lots of things to fix on it, but I think I'm headed in t...

So. Ideas for the movement project! Hm. I don't know why, but I am truthfully very scared of proposing the 'wrong' idea. I realize that everything starts out as a first draft, even the drafting of fresh ideas and it's ok to not hit the nail on the head, but idk. I'm a perfectionist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I know I don't want to do is something obvious like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, or a fish becoming a dinosaur, but I'm afraid the idea I do have is a bit basic. Maybe I should quit filibustering and just say what I'm thinking of.  Right now, I'm leaning towards an 'evolution' that is more personal to me. This is where we delve into some of the tmi stuff. Soooooo when I came out of the closet, I came out more out of necessity than actual want. I desperately wanted to avoid going on a mission at all costs for a lot of reasons, which I won't go into today, but I didn't want to come out. I had an extremely. Um. Awkward? Horrible? Coming out ex...

 BAH I gotchu. Me? Dancing?? Unheard of. So forget about the dance bit and let's focus on evolution. What is evolution? Maybe for the Christian moms in the audience that's a bit of a hot button topic with the whole "wE caN't be aPes" debate, but I digress. To me, evolution is simply the growing and transformation of one thing to something else that is different than what it was before. I hesitate to say that the new thing is 'better than' or 'more impressive than' because truly, what constitutes something being 'better'? There are obvious things we can point to, like how our ancestors and other animals have had to evolve to their surroundings and biologically develop characteristics that will lead to their survival. However, if we're talking about evolution with no respect to biology or anything like that, than what is 'better?'  People are constantly changing. All the time. Maybe our opinions don't change quickly, or ever (...