Improvisational Movement Practice
This blog is a Practice as Research project that accumulated (as is the nature of both blogs and improvisation training)over a 2 year period to reveal a NOMADIC DANCE IMPROVISATION PRACTICE in development. The central panel blog entries, through a regular 'date with (my) practice', document the improvisational tasks themselves, whilst the 'Articulating Improvisation' pages reveal contextual and philosophical ideas surrounding and emerging from the practice.
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Dance Improvisation / Nomadism Workshop
Developing an understanding of improvisation in/as nomadism has lead me into new thinking and refined my improvisational practice. Improvisation becomes, in this approach, a mode through which to (re)figure subjectivity and form connections to others in physical, spatial and temporal terms.
The below workshop outline pulls together many of the improvisation tasks in the blog below and places an emphasis on the development of fluid, shifting forms in and between bodies, creating an ethics of intersubjective engagements.
Warm-Up
Skin
Transformations
(Re)locations
(Re)visiting and inverting
Flow and interruption
Intersubjectivities
Open improvisation
Friday, 20 July 2012
Friday, 4 May 2012
Intersubjectivities: Duets 3
See March 16th 2012 post for the task relating to this video material.
A duet between Sam Frizzell (MA candidate, University of Northampton) and Vida Midgelow.
Video (duet version 1):
Video (duet version 2):
Intersubjectivites: Duets 3(version 2) from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Video (duet version 1):
Video (duet version 2):
Intersubjectivites: Duets 3(version 2) from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Sunday, 1 April 2012
Intersubjectivites: Duets 2
See March 16th 2012 post for the task relating to this video material.
Video: Duet (version 1 : part 1)
I-Ying Wu joins me in a duet (I-Ying is a PhD candidate at University of Northampton researching movement improvisation and daoism)
No sound, filmed from fixed camera. Here one round of call and response are edited into one screen.
Video: Duet (version 1: part 2)
I-Ying and I in a duet emerging of the call and response solos shown in the video above.
No sound, filmed from fixed camera and unedited.
Video: Duet (version 2)
I-Ying and I move through a loose call and response score and resulting duet form.
No sound, filmed from fixed camera and unedited.
Friday, 16 March 2012
Intersubjectivities: Duet
Feeding off your partners movement.. Partner A Partner B
A. Dances for 3mins. Pause.
B. Observes. Noting what draws you. Imagine shapes, patterns, dynamics in your body as you watch.
B. Dances for 3mins in response. Take with you into your dancing the imagined sensations, images and patterns you noted whilst observing.
A. Observes. Watching, noting, imagining.
Repeat the call response structure at least 3 times.
A and B dance together.
Both drawing on the sensations and actions from your dancing/watching.
Both respond to each other in the moment.... echo, contrast, transform.
Note what changed in your own dancing and that of your partner.
How does dancing together shift you both?
Video: Duet 1
Matthew Gough joins me in a Duet (Matt, is a senior lecturer in Dance at University of Northampton, Director of Playgrounds Dance Company and blogger: http://quodlibet.tumblr.com/).
Filmed on a dolly, lightly edited
Matthew Gough joins me in a Duet (Matt, is a senior lecturer in Dance at University of Northampton, Director of Playgrounds Dance Company and blogger: http://quodlibet.tumblr.com/).
Filmed on a dolly, lightly edited
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