Twyla Tharp Exercise: You Can Observe a Lot by Watching

Although I felt like a creep doing this exercise it was alright because I wasn’t being spotted while in my zone of creepiness. Exercise 5 on page five was You Can Observe a Lot by Watching. The exercise was for me to go to a street scene and pick a man and a woman together and write down twenty things I’ve observed. I didn’t know I was going to have to casually follow them as they walked down Wintergreen which was so weird. Lol. I’m going to go in order with what I have seen.

11.   Woman looks at her reflection in her phone, possibly checking out how she looks

22.    Woman puts her phone in her back pocket

33.   Man reaches into his front pocket and takes out his chap stick then applies it to his lips then puts it back into his pocket

44.   Woman looks up at him and they both smile at each other

55.   Man nudges woman

66.  Man grabs the woman’s hands

At this point they are just walking I don’t see much for about three minutes

77.  They unlock hands

88.   They both cross the street

99.  Woman takes her phone out and then checks herself out…again

110. Man puts his hands into his front pocket

I’m pretty sure the woman asks him for Chap Stick

111.   Man takes out his chap stick and hands it over the woman

112.   Woman give back the chap stick

113.   They continue to hold hands

114.   Man reaches into his back pocket and answers his phone

115.   The two kiss each other and probably say their goodbyes

116.   They depart

I kept watching for a little

117.   The girl looks back at him

He doesn’t look back and that was the end. I suppose they were more than friends because they were holding hands and they kissed when they said goodbye. The second “couple” I noticed were different. I didn’t see them on a street scene but I followed them close by out of Engelmann

11.       Woman greets man with a hug

22.     Man takes out cigarette

33.      Woman offers lighter

44.      They both sit down in front of the Student Center

55.     Passing the cig back and forth every three drags

66.   Woman puts cigarette out

77.    They both get up

They’re both walking towards the dorms

88.      They are walking fairly close towards one another but no sign of hand holding/touching

99.    Having conversation the man looks down at the woman

110.   The woman looks up and they both smile

111.   Laughter

112.   The boy puts his right hand in his right pocket

113.   They depart

This couple wasn’t interesting at all and I think they were just friends. In comparison to both couples I think the first was like I said more than friends and were interacting with one another more too. On the other hand, the second couple was friendly but probably knew each other for a while.