Today the workshop started at 8.30. We rode to Pestalozzi-Real-Schule and went into the Assembly room. The pupils changed and Bafana and Robin, the Trainers from New York started worming-up:
Everybody squatted in five rows and stretched together their necks, shoulders, arms, backs and bellies. "Flex and point and flex and point" called Robin and everyone described a circle with their toes. At next "Plié, relevé, plié, relevé…" the pupils did knee bends and tip toed. Then they did sit-ups, press-ups and some jumps across the whole room.
After a short break the young dancers chose a partner. They had to pull her or him and the partner stayed in a pose until he or she pulled the other partner. First in groups of two, then three and ten. That wasn`t easy,
So in a little break Bafana and Robin cut 30cm-long strings. I couldn`t wait to see what will happen next: They committed it on some pupils` hands and their partners pulled them like puppets. Now the young dancers had to dance completely free.
Sometimes it looked really funny, but nobody laughed at someone other. After this they had to stand in two rows and moved to the middle like a level. The trainers asked for ideas for the choreography, wrote them down and told, that everyone could go outside for a half hour.
I rode back to school, but I really wanted to stay and needed to dance with them. For everyone who will ever have the chance of joining to "Dancing to Connect" do it!!!
Gwendolyn Zeuner
Friday, July 11, 2008
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