For a few months now I have been providing video sessions to Poneke House. Everyone’s health and well being has been top of my priority with COVID-19, there has been plenty to think about from my end of the computer.
I wanted to remain the same on video as I would be in person, mistakes and all. Polished is easy to achieve, but real is accepting what unfolds before you even if it has the occasional chord slip. I prefer real time videos.
Here is one little ditty that popped up week one of being in self-isolation.
Then we had the go-ahead last week to start again this week. Wooo!
Taking my concepts forward from the videos. I wanted to block sections within our session where we work on sensory offerings like connection, rhythm and purpose offering songs, story and movement to take the participants on a journey to meet each of these experiences.
I was absolutely delighted by the transformations of the residents from the beginning to the end if the session.
In the zone.
I was deeply touched my rich moments of connection and witnessing of each other and reminded of the power of human connection in real time. I am grateful for the bountiful lessons from the digital space and then shifting into live connected musical space again.