Research lab
In today’s class we did our research lab. We were placed into groups of four and five and asked to mined map questions that we would like to explore we chose to explore the question can you apply the same trust and relationship with a new partner that you do with a regular partner? Our group was a good group to do this question with for me because we were a group of five me, Leanne, Stacie, Toni and Kelly. I had worked with Kelly and Leanne in other classes and the jam’s quite a lot but not Stacie and Toni meaning that I could really test myself to see if not working with half of the group before did make a difference to if I trusted them or not.
The first exorcise that we decides to do was pebbles and table tops. We decided that to get a fear result that we had to be the over and under dancer for each person. This took more time than expected. When being the under dancer in both table top and pebble positions I was happy and trusted everyone completely. This was because I know that I am the one in control and that the over dancer has to put more trust into me to be their surface and to hold their weight. When being the over dancer in pebble position I was also happy and trusting in my partner I think this is because I knew I was close to the floor and I wouldn’t get hurt if I did fall. I think this because when I was the over dancer in table top then I got to Kelly who is a very tall person when going up I hesitated but I don’t think that this was because of not trusting her I think it was because I don’t fully trust myself not to fall.
We then did the pebble again but this time if you were the bottom person you would have your eyes closed. For me this made no difference as I still felt that the over dancer was the person that needed more trust. All I had to know was that I was a stable base for them. The next exorcise we also did in a pebble position with our eyes closed. We wanted to see if you could tell who someone was just by the back to the back connection. We all took it in turns to be the under dancer with our eyes closed as the over dancers went over in a random order. I found it quite easy to tell who was who but other members of the group got confused between me and Leanne as we are both the same height and have a smaller body shape. At the end we all agreed that if we did not know who was in the group and we were in a jam and a lot more people it would be harder to know who was on you.
Are next exorcise was holding the head and head to head connection. I did this with Kelly and Toni, Kelly being the person I had worked with before. Looking back at it I think I felt the same dancing with both of them I gave same but not all of my head weight to both dancers and felt I moved in the same way. Talking to the dancers that watch me they all said that at the start you could tell that I was courses of giving my head to both dancers and that after I got over that I relaxed more and got into it.
Together we wished we did a small jam at the start of class to see who we went to, to see who we trusted. We all decided that we don’t feel like we would have trusted each other so much if we didn’t know each other out of class as we might not have danced with everyone before but we have already known them for a year and had the same classes as them so we knew what they we capable of doing and know them on a personal level. We also found that if you didn’t trust yourself to hold someone then you got closer to the floor so that if someone did fall then they didn’t have far to fall. Finally we found that if you felt that someone was giving off a lot of confidence then you are more likely do dance with them over someone that is shy and doesn’t look happy to be there.