This week we met Stephanie De’Ath, a Graduate Intern in Dance Science, from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. Stephanie measured and recorded the movement, flexibility and posture of everyone taking part in edna. Every time the word ‘posture’ was mentioned we all sat bolt upright, especially me. We’ll met Stephanie again in 12 weeks for more measuring, will there be any changes I wonder?

Alongside the science Rebecca and I introduced a new idea and sumptuous props, including Rebecca’s Liquid Gold!

We’re very much at the beginning of edna, finding our feet, tasting, testing and constant chatting to inform what happens next. I set up a drawing activity, I call it ‘Back to Back’ you may know it as something else. Working in pairs, sitting back to back, A has the clipboard, paper and pen and B delves into a bucket to retrieve a small bag containing a mystery object. Without looking in the bag B must feel the object and describe the shapes, lines, texture to A, most importantly without actually saying what it is. Sounds simple? It’s tricky, and the hard part is definitely the describing, the person with the pen simply has to follow instructions! And there’s the rub, listening and following are hard work.

The results are surprising and often hilarious.