Contact Improv

I assaulted Mike Davis last night (my rugger Erika’s husband) who was out here on business. By assault I mean forced a hug on because I hadn’t realized my lack of human contact since leaving my friends and family far behind. The last real hug I had was when Tom left to go back to Colorado. That is a while ago for a girl who is use to constant human contact with those I care about.

So I get to the Loft in the morning and explain to my loft neighbor Karen my feelings about this lack of hugging. Little did I know that as the JPD group went to our Friday morning bonding - Calibrating the Instrument - that we were doing contact improv instead of the usual improv we were use to.

What is this contact improve you speak of Danika?

For 1 and a half hours we did interesting activities to help us understand how our bodies move, twist, and react to weight. We poured our weight onto each other in artistic and not so artistic ways. I did backbends over Hyejin, ended up tango-ing with Martin, body surfing over John and getting a full weight hug from James.

It was just what I needed actually…talk about taking the weight off…or adding it on depending on who was doing the hugging

A few pictures for those I have been meaning to send things to.

My Loft Space

My Team for DP1: David & Minjeong

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