APPENDIX

Workshop Observations:

First workshop (untrained dancers):

- favoured use of momentum

- reliance on core strength and breath

- heavy, weighted movement

- limbs passing through negative spaces created through shape

- hesitation and pauses to think of next movement choices

- use of rolls and spins across the floor space in travelling tasks

Second workshop (untrained dancers):

- favouring standing movement

- stiffness in movement due to the restraints

- exploration of balance and weight transfers

- repetitive patterns

Workshop Layouts:

Workshop 1: 

- body-scan warm-up, noticing sensations present in the body before movement

- notating all observations

- improvisational task, moving through different spatial levels, in the own personal kinesphere

- notating all changes in the body

- restrained, banded movement, at ankles and wrists - stationary in space, moving through levels

- repeat previous task, without restraints

- notating all changes and responses

- restrained, banded task - travelling through space, and including different levels

- repeating same task, without restraints

-notating all changes and responses

- final observations and thoughts

Workshop 2:

- Andrea Olsen 'inner observer' body-scan

- notating all observations within the body

- improvisational task - movement initiation from specific body parts: back of right hand, crown of head, left elbow point, right knee-cap, right shoulder blade, mid-back

- body-half connection movements, relating to Bartenieff fundamentals - moving through symmetrical and cross-lateral connections

- notating all changes in the body

- restrained, banded movement, relating to symmetrical connection - binding of wrist and ankle - moving through space, with no assigned pathways

- repeating previous task, without restraints

- noting all changes and responses

- repeating previous banded task, with cross-lateral reference of right ankle, and left wrist

- repeating previous task without restraints

- notating all changes

- Andrea Olsen's physical body story writing task

- final thoughts and observations

First workshop (trained dancers):

- use of spinal movement patterns

- reliance on flexibility

- use of momentum, less in comparison to other group

- maintaining even weight, and use of balance

- physical exhalations and greater use of breath

Second workshop (trained dancers):

- favouring floorwork/sitting movement

- greater continuous flow in movement pathways

- exploration of weight transfer in relation to floor

- more varied movement pathways