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In the afternoon the gears shifted from technique class to composition, improvisation, repertory, and rehearsals. This composition class was held in a lecture-based format. Welliver got the class moving with a composition warm-up consisting of a portion of the class creating a small, stationary dance in two minutes while the other half noted what their fellow students were investigating. They repetitiously rolled their feet, twisted their knees, circled their heads, curled their fingers, and swayed their arms, which allowed them to gently wake up their bodies and minds simultaneously.
After investigating this fully, Welliver switched gears to what the class had been working on for the past few weeks ─ their "visual scores". Each student had drawn stick figures of their movement, an abstract drawing of their movement, and a visual map of their movement. They used these "scores," as Welliver called them, to inspire and to remind them of where they had been, opening up unforeseen possibilities within their movements.