Paper Portraits Week One

In this session, Florence Peake introduced us into her work 'Paper Portraits'. We began by imagining we were on warm sand and making imprints, deep into it. From this, we began to explore improvising with the idea that the movements we made, could leave markings on the ground and in the air. We then each were given a large piece of plain paper and stuck it to the ground. Using our previous movement ideas, we danced on the paper. While doing this, other dancers used coloured pens to draw on the paper. The markings we made with the pens reflected particular shapes, sounds, movements, dynamics and feelings we saw and felt.