exercise · all tools
Back Dancing
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
In pairs, standing back to back, players dance to changing music without ever losing contact between their backs. Nobody can see their partner, so the whole negotiation happens through weight and pressure.
Hold with care
- Sustained full-back contact with one other person for the length of a piece of music — worth pairing people deliberately and offering an opt-out
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · pairs
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- Music, ideally in several contrasting styles
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Back_Dancing.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia
Related: Janus Dance (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31