Who attended?
Elena, Aubrey, Jimmy, Alex
What went well?
I really liked this exercise I came up with, where each person chooses a rhythm in their own mind, danced their rhythm, then ever other person in the group attempts to guess their rhythm. This was fun, challenging, and engaging. Perhaps next time increase difficulty by adding music?
What did I learn?
The warm up exercise — where we each take turns in taking a single foundation and adding a variation — seems to cause all of us to drop out of sync. And I don’t think this has to do with the (lack of) technical skills of people in the group because from my perspective, everyone is seasoned (even more experienced than me).
That the prompt of “continuous flow” seems to significantly shift my dance in a positive direction during my rounds. This reminder tends to be given by Elena, who was there the first time Jake had prompted me and we all witnessed a radical change in my movement during my cypher round.
Feedback
- Elena asked if we could integrate the upper body and lower body (instead of two separate circuits) workouts
Some action items
- Upgrade the rhythm software to toggle or disable the metronome
- Upgrade the rhythm software to do 8 counts, where two different 4 counts combined
- Want to have more self exploration time
- Think about doing repetitions instead of only time – multiple folks tend to like to hit the target. On one hand, yes, give the people what they want. And second, curious if folks can continue challenging themselves. Perhaps we can have both?