Practice this exercise in a quiet place. Afterwards, use your documentation cards (the ones you got during our attuning workshop in the studio with your paper object) to draw or find a word for the image that helped you to attend to your hand touching your leg and your leg touching your hand at the same time. 

Note: the exercise ends with the sentence: "Discuss your drawing or word and how it worked for you in the group". 
We practiced this together in class. When doing the exercise at home you can ignore this sentence. 

Duration: around 10 minutes

Location: inside 

Preparation: Have your documentation cards and a pen or pencil at hand. 

Documentation: Take five minutes after the exercise to draw or write down a word for the reciprocal touch. Make the drawing or word as specific as possible.

References, sources: 

This exercise is also available as part of the Transition Makers Toolbox: https://transitionmakers.nl/tool/inside-outside-presence/

Practice this exercise in a quiet place. Afterwards, use your documentation cards (the ones you got during our attuning workshop in the studio with your paper object) to draw or find a word for the image that helped you to attend to your body and your surroundings at the same time. 

Note: the exercise ends with the sentence: "Discuss your drawing or word and how it worked for you in the group". 
We practiced this together in class. When doing the exercise at home you can ignore this sentence. 

Duration: around 15 minutes

Location: inside 

Preparation: Have your documentation cards and a pen or pencil at hand. 

Documentation: Take five minutes after the exercise to draw or write down a word for this inside-outside presence. Make the drawing or word as specific as possible.

References, sources: 

This exercise is also available as part of the Transition Makers Toolbox: https://transitionmakers.nl/tool/inside-outside-presence/

This is an optional exercise, in order to practice blurring body boundaries. 

The exercise below ("Waterpool"), can be used as a warm-up exercise for "Pollen". 

In this exercise you will be exploring the space in which you do most of your artistic research work. We refer to this space as your "lab".

Make sure you have documentation material nearby (use what you usually use to take notes etc). 

After the audio exercise, you will keep your documentation material at hand while working on your artistic practice. 

After documenting how you use your body in space during your artistic practice, you use all of this material to map out the space, using the vocabulary learned in the studio workshop and in the audio exercise.

You can find an extra mapping sheet below, in case you need it. 

Duration: almost an hour 

Location: inside, in your work space

Preparation: Make sure you have documentation material nearby. 

Documentation: During the exercise, there will be moments of silence you can use for documentation. 

References, sources: 

Bogart, A. & Landau, T. (2005). The viewpoints Book. A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition. New York: Theatre Communication Group

Newlove, J. & Dably, J. (2004). Laban for all. New York: Routledge

In this exercise, we are going to explore different imaginations of the body. We will explore how different ways of imagining our body can make us attend to, feel, experience and become aware of our body in different ways. Some of these ways of imagining your body may be very familiar to you. Other might be very strange. Our historical, cultural and social background may have taught us to imagine and experience our bodies in certain ways, and others not. Feeling our body is not natural, but depends on the specificities of our social-material surroundings. Yet some ways of feeling our bodies may seem natural to us, while others do not, because we are used to practicing them. By using different imaginations we become aware of a wide spectrum of ways in which we can “do” our body and what part of this spectrum we use (on a daily basis or within our artistic or research practices) and what ways of doing our body we do not do. 

Duration: 1 hour 

Location: inside 

Preparation: Don't use headphones for this audio exercise as they may limit free movement. Make sure you have enough (safe) space to move. We start with slow movements on the floor, so make sure you stay warm. You may use a mat of blanket on the floor to begin with. Later movements will be more active and distributed in space. 

Documentation: After the exercise: take at least 10 minutes to document about your experiences, what you became aware of or what you learned about the way you do your body.

References, sources: 

Bogart, A. & Landau, T. (2005). The viewpoints Book. A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition. New York: Theatre Communication Group

Newlove, J. & Dably, J. (2004). Laban for all. New York: Routledge

Olsen, A. (2004). Bodystories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy. University Press of New England, Hanover and London

Zaporah, R. (1995). Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence. North Atlantic Books