The following is a very incomplete list of exercises from my creative process and workshops. The titles are links to descriptions. As of this writing, these exercises are primarily pulled from two creative projects, Axolotl and Body of Knowledge.

These are not meant to be comprehensive descriptions of the exercises, what one might get out of them, why do them. Instead they are rough descriptions, sometimes with a few notes, meant to spark the imagination of someone who has not been exposed to them before or as a reminder for folks who have tried them previously…

Research, training, and exercises from Axolotl…

 

• Authentic Movement (adapted from Mary Stark Whitehouse)
• Contact Improvisation
• Passive Sequencing
• Martial Dance (adapted from Tai Chi push hands)
• Deepening
• Maker/Resistor (adapted from Arne Mindel)
• Approach Trio
• Conversation Study
• Physical Poems (adapted from Felix Ruckert)

Research, training, and exercises for Body of Knowledge

• Sensation/Process/Awareness Studies
  • Sensation/Action flow
  • Subvoice Work (adapted from Arne Mindel)
  • Comfort Study
  • Plastiques (adapted from Jerzy Grotowski)
  • Curiosities
  • Synchronicity (adapted from Sarah Shelton Mann)
  • Awkward study
• Find the problem
• Themes
• Verbal scores
• Slow walk
• Blind walk