If you could put on a solo show, what would it be?

Our class opens with that questions as we juggle in pairs. Familiar with the scarves by now, we make a circle to share what we've come up with for our solo shows. Full moon ping pong tennis fits. Bird dance inspired rave ritual to death. Giving outlandish instructions to audience. Career outpatient care patient. Dancing element, dance or not, a judge? World-building, costume. Advice giving, salespeople also talk abt own lives, Dave. The tniest saddest coy boy in the west, music with harmonica, audience become country band. Audience seats on treadmill slowly moving. Washerwoman with wooden bucket and brush. Meditation instruction.

Before any of us get to do that, and before we put on our noses as a group,  we walk.

We don't start with the noses on, but there's music and we're amplifying. In duos and trios we make sound and travel. When the music fades out, we ride out the tide and put down our surfboards. And we put on our noses. We wiggle--we feel our wiggle--the music gets louder, and boom--we're clowning. 

The quick clowning needs some softening. We're focusing on what we can build as a group, guided by our impulses--the real ones--to take care of each other. Which also means holding them accountable to being as true as possible. 

As we figure out our point of view of others, we take shape. If we do it alone, we do it alone. If we do it together, we do it together. But all of us are being guided by the music, even when it changes. We go from partners to a full group until we can line up and take a bow. Noses off.

With a partner, we unpack what just happened with the previous string of activities. Then, we introduce the First Touch, aiming for point of view and togetherness.

As we go through the first touches, we mirror. Mirroring helps us get to a place where we are open and connected. In this place, we start to define the body and our points of view. 

As always, we find the ending together.