Soup

Soup

We started working on a exercise today called 'soup'. It's called soup because it's about you and your body flowing instinctually whilst not having to think about what you're doing.
We started off by doing movement we usually do in physical theatre which is laying in semi supine and focusing on breath. Then we bring that breath into slow movements, just simply rolling onto our side then bringing our arm and legs into those small movements. Whilst doing this still allowing your breath to evoke the moment you're making. A big challenge for me in this exercise is trying not to think about what I am doing and letting it be instinctual.
We then had to get up to sitting on our knees and exploring how different body parts could move, still making breath our main reason for moving.
We then had to find a partner and start to do contact improvisation and exploring breath and movement with them. This was quite difficult to grasp at first because I'd only just got the hang of learning how to keep focused on my breath. With our partner we needed to keep eye contact at some points to keep the exercise personal and honest.
Then we started adding in strange sounds that just came to mind in the moment instead of breath , almost like we were having a conversation with our partner using this strange language.
It was a really captivating exercise because you had to give absolutely 100% into the movement and breath. It was like It was just me and my partner just being completely honest beings with each other and it was quite animalistic, especially when we started using the strange voices to communicate.