Movement Poem #7

From Blog Director Jill Randall:

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place, in Spring 2020, I started sharing Movement Poems on the blog. The idea was to offer improvisation and composition prompts that we could easily do at home. I paired each poem with a piece of music by Michael Wall, easily accessed on his site soundformovement.com.

Here is the complete list of 52 poems. I hope that you can use them for your personal practice, or use them within an undergraduate or graduate level course.

Movement Poem #1 (Sequencing)

Movement Poem #2 (Grounding)

Movement Poem #3 (Opening)

Movement Poem #4 (Body Game)

Movement Poem #5 (Whole Body, Going)

Movement Poem #6 (Personal Space)

Movement Poem #7 (confetti)

Movement Poem #8 (Whimsy)

Movement Poem #9 (Contents/Container)

Movement Poem #10 (Goals)

Movement Poem #11 (Activate)

Movement Poem #12 (Accumulation)

Movement Poem #13 (Aspirations)

Movement Poem #14 (Placement)

Movement Poem #15 (If, I)

Movement Poem #16 (Distill)

Movement Poem #17 (Bookends)

Movement Poem #18 (Seeking a Daydream)

Movement Poem #19 (simplicity)

Movement Poem #20 (eyes)

Movement Poem #21 (exterior/exit)

Movement Poem #22 (small dance)

Movement Poem #23 (zig zag)

Movement Poem #24 (Movement becomes wishes)

Movement Poem #25: The Delight of Verbs Beginning with the Letter D (thank you, Ross Gay)

Movement Poem #26 (palette)

Movement Poem #27 (Symmetry)

Movement Poem #28 (word pairs)

Movement Poem #29 (Simply, Warming Up)

Movement Poem #30 (Anchors)

Movement Poem #31: Some That I Love (Actions + Pathways)

Movement Poem #32 (You Choose)

Movement Poem #33 (Simple Score)

Movement Poem #34 (reverso poem)

Movement Poem #35 (to arrive)

Movement Poem #36 (Less/More)

Movement Poem #37 (spinal twist)

Movement Poem #38 (light)

Movement Poem #39 (reciprocity)

Movement Poem #40 (Yes!)

Movement Poem #41 (Iterations)

Movement Poem #42 (lean in)

Movement Poem #43 (The Ribs)

Movement Poem #44 (Time/Timing/Tempo)

Movement Poem #45 (Today, So Much New Information)

Movement Poem #46 (word pairs for a solo)

Movement Poem #47 (calming actions for today)

Movement Poem #48 (an entrance, moving backwards)

Movement Poem #49 (Imagery/Ideas)

Movement Poem #50 (New Directions)

Movement Poem #51 (Remembering Kites)

Movement Poem #52