On the fifth day, with new contact exercises, the morning warm-up set the first focal point: connecting to another person or group and building trust from within, rather than by reliance on music, counts or a choreographer’s command.
The second theme of the day was on devising together (consisting of improvising,
observation round, new decisions, more movement, repeat). This particular
process for creating material, which participants could experience and try out
through Irina’s teaching, is drawn from Laban concepts, post-modern dance
practice, somatic practices and ideas of democracy.
