DAY 5 — CONFUSING MATERIAL

PROTOCOL — DAY 5: CONFUSING MATERIAL

PHASE: COOPERATION

SOURCE CLARIFICATION

The initial six-day work plan names Day 5:

“CONFUSING MATERIAL.”

The later protocol notes do not repeat this heading explicitly, but they document the transition into the Cooperation phase and the framing of the material for the Open Class.

MOVEMENT OF THE PROCESS

Henry described the group as having reached its deepest point and now beginning to come back upward.

The task was to frame the work developed with the partner.

FRAMING THE INVESTIGATION

Each pair was asked to find a question for its improvisational material.

Henry offered questions such as:

• How can we release the monster and find tenderness?
• How do we let go of the patterns?
• How do we integrate ourselves?
• How do we tune together?
• How do we enter?

The question was not simply a title.

It functioned as a frame for continuing the investigation.

CHALK AND QUESTIONS ON THE FLOOR

Pairs divided the space with chalk.

Questions were placed on the floor.

The spatial organisation became part of the research and of the way the pair entered its material.

PREPARATION OF THE OPEN CLASS

The emerging Open Class structure began with:

• collective flow;
• movement through the space;
• small “sparkles” of individual material;
• performers inspiring one another;
• echoes of movement.

Pairs and groups entered the flow in a planned order.

The group then discussed the sequence and repeated the complete structure.

SOURCE PROVENANCE

WORKSHOP PRACTICE

Henry McGrath CPPM workshop protocol.

Initial heading taken from the six-day work plan.

The exact date is not explicitly stated in the extracted protocol section.