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.

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

(Re)locations 3: transitory spaces

Transitory spaces are those that we pass through as we travel from A-B. Usually we treat them in a functional manner, passing through as a necessary part of our journey.

I invite you to bring a heightened attention to these spaces. The corridors you pass through, the stairways you ascend, the streets you stride along are all places with particular geometries and energies that shape your usual usage.

I invite you to pause, to remain, to allow these places to become areas of play.

No comments:

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).