“Both touch and partnering involve a yield toward center. This includes yielding to ground for support and to the center of gravity within each partner’s structure for connection. Throughout, you stay aware of your sensing-feeling inner landscapes. Without self-reference, relationship is one-sided. Without yield, partnering is awkward and touch remains superficial.
Levity is also essential in partnering. (...) How you enter and leave a moment of touch and connection is telling. All the body systems are involved. (…) Your history and expectations about touch, real and imagined, are present in movement.
Touch requires waiting and listening, taking in and responding - which may be not to respond. There are many gradations of touch.
Allowing registration of sensation without going immediately into action enhances shared awareness, the amount of sensing, and the quality of interpretation. To amplify connection in a partnered shape, let it be more than habit (even if it is repetition). (…) You are not doing something “to” someone else or “controlling” the other person. (…)
(also too much tension can mask sensation).
Your body recognizes connected touch and sensuality.
All body systems are affected. (...) Skin is your largest organ. Four layers of skin, including the fascia that connects it to muscle and organ layers below, are all richly fed with nerve endings. They read touch with exquisite detail (and highly sensitive alertness)"
Andrea Olsen with Caryn McHose
in "The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making"
1st edition 30th January 2014, Wesleyan University Press
p. 139-140
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