Louise Chardon's class was about the relation among sternum, occiput and sacrum and how they 'communicate'.

For better visualising these three parts of the body, she has shown us real books of anatomy.

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What it jumped in my mind was the observation that Louise made: the general shape of the sternum looks like the one of the sacrum and I would say, maybe with more imagination, the one of the occiput too.

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The third step was to pass to experience it. In couple, one person (I'd call it 'A') carefully touched, supporting  or delegating, these three parts on the body of her/his partner ('B'). So, 'B' had to put the focus on them, breathing, diving in very little sensations...  "What are we touching?" Louise said, "Materiality? Emotion? Or both?".

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In a questionary that Louise gave us at the end of the experience, I was always associating it to images about sea, fishes, water, earth. A metaphorical dimension arised in me: the earth under the deep blue sea. In fact, I related the sacrum to an old 'rooted' grey whale, the sternum to a solid tree in Spring time, the occiput to a floating jellyfish in the deep blue sea. 

The epiphany was that starting with the focus on bones, I ended it to water, diving in a floating dynamic.

TTT stands for Teaching The Teachers . It is an initiative from Jardin d'Europe which aims at giving an answer to a European dance scene in need of new teaching and training methods in the field of Contemporary Dance, taking into account the various forms enriching dance creation nowadays, such as dramaturgy, scenography, lighting, visual arts practices, transforming movement into film/image, dance photography. Respective activities e.g. workshops, lasting each of them about ten days - are taking place at the relevant intiatives/venues of the participating co-organisers (Ultima Vez for Brussels
).