The body enters the practice as water — bouyant, fluid, and multidimensional.
Through five continuous states, attention gathers, moves, and changes. These stages are not only metaphor, but a way of knowing in motion.
pool
An arrival within oneself.
Grounded. Aware. Sensitive. Alive. Through touch and imagination, we create space, listen inward, and become familiar with our inner body.
spring
Activating the soft body.
Awakening the major joints—folding, unfolding, spiraling, circling—allowing them to be active and supple.
surge
Building momentum.
Tools are introduced through an accumulative formula and taken through space. As they build, so does speed, creating turbulence. The body feels generative, productive, and alert. And at times, disorienting.
delta
Releasing into form.
The stirred energy takes on a new shape, led by the participants. It is a jam—a collective becoming.
These stages are not only a metaphor, but a way of noticing how attention gathers, moves, and changes in the body.
Rather than fixed steps, they describe tendencies—ways the body organizes while it moves. A dancer may move gradually between them, returning, skipping, or remaining in one state.
They are observed.
