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.

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.

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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).