Curious movement exploration 3/30/17

Frances suggested that we return to the "foot planted to the ground" exploration, so we rolled with that. I led everyone through the full sole of the foot connected to the ground, into partial foot on the ground. I found myself doing this weird swaying walk that started by rond de jambe-ing one foot from the back to the front, putting pressure on the outside of that foot (sickled), then rolling over the tops of the toes to roll through the ball of the foot to place it flat on the ground. My hips followed the rond de jambe in a natural circle, which shifted my torso and made my arms circle, etc. 

A few minutes into that I thought, "what if this was how we taught children to walk?" 

I wasn't planning on switching gears again, but that inspired me to explore something else. I LOVE WHEN I GET INSPIRED IN THE MOMENT as I'm teaching or guiding/leading a group. 

I asked everyone to take whatever movement they were doing at that current moment and turn it into a repetitive action that could be used to locomote. Learn/observe/feel this movement so closely/intensely that you could teach a baby how to do it. 

After a while, if you were doing it slowly, play with doing it faster, and vice versa. And after a while of that, if you were on the ground, stand up, and  vice versa. My swaying foot roll turned into a sort of butt crawl on the ground, using the palms of the hands as well as that sickled foot to push myself forward.

I liked the new locomotion thing. Adding it to my list of curious explorations to revisit.