Noticing a place from which to begin...
Revisit this same starting place several times.
Each time note the journey in, through and of your body that this same starting point gives rise to.
Video 1:
A journey starting from the an awareness of balancing weight across the feet
(Recorded on a Flip camera which is held in my hand whilst improvising)
Interior Journey - An improvisation task / experiment from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
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.
Monday, 30 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
Beginnings 3: Journey
Two short improvisations that both start from a rise in the thumb!
Starting from this pre-selected point in the body the task is to note the movement possibilities that emerge shaped by this starting point.
Video 1: Starting from a rise in the thumb 1!
(unedited footage filmed by Tim Halliday)
Untitled from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Video 2: Starting from a rise in the thumb 2!
(unedited footage filmed by Tim Halliday)
Improvisation: Beginning from a rise in the thumb! from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Starting from this pre-selected point in the body the task is to note the movement possibilities that emerge shaped by this starting point.
Video 1: Starting from a rise in the thumb 1!
(unedited footage filmed by Tim Halliday)
Untitled from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Video 2: Starting from a rise in the thumb 2!
(unedited footage filmed by Tim Halliday)
Improvisation: Beginning from a rise in the thumb! from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Beginnings 2
Capturing 'Beginnings' - this time in short 'time lapse' images
Beginning (in a time lapse image series) from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Beginning (in a time lapse image series) from Vida Midgelow on Vimeo.
Friday, 20 May 2011
Beginnings 1
Stand, lay, sit in any position
Take time to find an inner 'stillness,
then draw your attention to the internal landscape of the body.....
noting, noting what draws you...
A twitching in the belly, a tension in the fingers, a drop in the shoulder, a catch in balance....
Photos: 'Trying to capture a series of first moments .....'
Take time to find an inner 'stillness,
then draw your attention to the internal landscape of the body.....
noting, noting what draws you...
A twitching in the belly, a tension in the fingers, a drop in the shoulder, a catch in balance....
Photos: 'Trying to capture a series of first moments .....'
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