Improvisational Movement Practice: Video and Improvisation

The video clips that document this emerging 'nomadic improvisation practice' are created quickly in response to the improvisation tasks being explored in a workshop context (rather than in a performance mode). As such they are created intuitively and echo the improvisational processes. They are intended to capture and (re)present the dance in a fairly simple, direct manner as such they are filmed in natural light they are (generally) only lightly edited with limited range of effects used.

Example 1 - Camera on a dolly, such that the videographer 'dances' with the performer

Improvisation: Dancer and camera traversing through space togther from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.

Example 2 - Open improvisation recorded on a Canon 550D using an intervalometer:

An Open improvisation in the studio sunlight! from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.

Other possible modes of 'representing' improvisation on screen with dance artists Hamilton, Forsythe and Simpson:

Speaking improvisation (Hamilton)

Computer renderings (Forsythe)

Camera as Co-improviser (Kirsty Simpson, by McPherson)

Energy Sculpting from Goat on Vimeo.

Some background

This blog is a document of my Practice as Research Project
that is configured as a regular 'date with (my improvisation) practice...'
These studio and written 'dates' will be documented in posts that will accumulate (as is the nature of improvisation training) through time to reveal the development of a
Nomadic Improvisation Dance Practice.

This project seeks to address the following questions:
- What are the features of a Nomadic Improvisation Practice?
- What improvisational tasks and scores enable an embodied
experience of nomadism?
- How might these features and embodiments be articulated
in image and text?

This research builds up an ongoing project exploring the
ontologies and articulation of dance improvisation,
and specifically from a dialogue entitled 'Dear Practice..',
a series a of (imaginary) letters between myself and
my practice (see Trace: Improvisation in a box, Artfully Bound Publishers).