𓂃ADD~ONs

Compositional ideas to accompany the grounding practice.

ADD~ONs are additional movement prompts that can support and deepen your journey into relational and reflective dancing.

They bring new textures and layers to your practice — offering ways to explore a different articulation, how you relate to yourself, others, and the space around you.

Begin with one ADD~ON at a time. Stay with it for a while before moving to another.
As your practice evolves, you may start to combine several of them together..
Have always present with each of them the qualities of attention.
Choose an ADD~ON that calls you today — or move through them in the order below.

𓂃1#𓂃ALLOWING YES, NO, MAYBE
Allowing YES, NO, MAYBE to be part of the DaNCING𓂃BaND conversation.
Explore what you can allow without effort.
What opens, what closes, softens, or deepens.
Include any resistance as part of the movement. Notice if resistance can transform into constructive expression.
Notice allowing can also included constructive resistance.

𓂃2#𓂃 DANCING FRONTS
Begin by noticing which direction your body is facing.
Explore turning towards different fronts — towards your partner, others in the room, or a new area of space.
Let your whole body move and respond to these changes of direction.
How does it feel to face? To turn away? To move beside?

𓂃3#𓂃STILLNESS / PAUSE / REST
Allow stillness to be part of your dance.
Pause whenever it feels right — between movements, within transitions, or at the end of an action.
Rest in these moments and feel how stillness also moves.
Notice how the dance continues through quietness.

𓂃4#𓂃SOFTENING SIGHT

Experiment with how you use your eyes.
Soften your gaze. Let sight rest.
Try to take in the whole room at once — using your peripheral vision.
Let your other senses begin to orient and guide you: hearing, touch, balance, proximity.
How does softening sight change your movement and your relation to others?

𓂃5#𓂃ALLOWING YOUR OWN PACE, COUNTERING WITH ALL RYTHMS and SOUNDS
Notice the rhythms around you — sounds, breath, movements.
Then, find your own pace.
You don’t need to move with the same beat to be listening.
Let your pulse, your breath, and your weight create their own rhythm.
Play with joining, resisting, and countering the rhythms you sense in the space.

𓂃6#𓂃DANCING WITH ALL
Expand your awareness to include everything around you.
Dance with your partner, the band, the air, the room, the floor.
Let your the sensation of the band on your wrist and skin to ripple through and beyond you.

𓂃7#𓂃 PASSING THROUGH
Let the feeling of the band on your wrist travel through your body — to your feet, head, or spine — like a story unfolding inside you.

Follow its motion as it continues outward, reaching into your partner and the surrounding space, opening the dance beyond yourself.

Notice how movement travels, transfers, and transforms back into you.
Notice how the dance carries your personal experience into the room, and how the room, the band, and your partner, witout judgment.
Stay curious about the flow and reciprocity of motion.

𓂃8#𓂃NOTICING BEGININGs AND ENDs
Enter each movement gently — notice how something begins.
Stay with it as it unfolds.
Then, allow it to end — to dissolve or release.
Observe what happens in the moment between — the space where form becomes formless.
Keep moving between beginning, middle, and end with awareness.

𓂃9#𓂃LEVELS & FOLDS
Explore movement through different levels:
from the floor, to standing, to reaching as high as you can.
Fold and unfold the body — open, bend, spiral, extend.
Use the band or space to travel between levels.
Let transitions between planes be smooth, continuous, or surprising.

𓂃10#𓂃DANCING ELSE
Give yourself carte blanche to move. Let go of all instructions.
Allow the unseen, the imagined, and the not-yet-named to appear.
Move before language — let the dance discover itself through you, the band and your partner.