Katye's and Charlies Performance

Katye's and Charlies performance contained similar elements to the class that they had taught us that week in Contact Improvisation.
Their eyes are closed the majority of the time, and perform with eachother via sensation. This particularly showed how embodied they were in what they were doing, and has made me since try this technique more for myself which has aided my movement production.
They use their senses to investigate eachothers bodies, as well as to manipulate and interupt the others movement. However, as the performance went on, I realised these interuptions didnt stop the moving, but just provided a new pathway and therefore a new set of movements to be discovered.
There was no leader, and therefore they relinquished weight equally.

The performance had a particular significance with me due to me being one of the 2 choreographers that have the only 'male and female' performers for our duets. Therefore Katye's and Charlies performance reminded me of the 'Rosemary Lee' duet we watched in class which dominated around the question 'can a man and a woman exist in space together without distinguishing a relationship?'.
This has inspired me to use this idea in my choreography for Gabby and Lewis, to see if in fact a man and a woman can move in space together, without a relationship being present, and it focusing purely upon 2 bodies, regardless of their gender.

Within their performance, I noticed a lot of Katye's practise i.e. the "sixth sense" as a dancer we discussed during last term in Katye's Improvisation/ Instant Compositon classes in the 'dancer v.s. maker' task.

The performance on a whole felt like a puzzle, as though each person was trying to discover something new constantly, which maintained the interest of both the dancers and the audience. Their trust in eachother was vital as it aided larger and more difficult movements to be performed without an injury occuring and maintaining the high performance level. It was interesting to watch how as one thing developed, my understanding of the performance changed, and this happened all throughout their performance.