(Re)visiting and inverting 2: accumulating

Composing and building... noting and 'repeating'
Material adds upon material it emerges...

Starting dancing, following whatever movement initiation occurs to you, while paying attention to your actions.

Note a 'key'* movement idea and return to it (in repeat, inverted, to another direction for example)

Moving on.....

Then again, note your next 'key' movement ideas.... add this idea to your first - 

replay one, add in two, replay one and two, add in a third, replay one, two and three, add in a forth...

Accumulating these never quite the same materials, ....following each phrase and returning, replaying..

                                           this is an exercise in paying attention, in remembering...

 * by 'key' I mean you to select whatever movement images resonate strongly with you whilst you are dancing.

Video:

Improvisation 1 (in timelapse video)

Video:

Improvisation 2 (in real time with a light edit)

(Re)visiting and inverting 1: tracking back

If you use the metaphor of sewing - this improvisation is like making a back-stitch within a series of running stitches.

Begin your dance, using an impulse of within the body, in the room or the sounds around you to initiate your movement....

Stay with a single action/phrase a while - find out by dancing with this action/phrase some of its possibilities. ..... and then as you feel ready, let your dance 'run on'....

Then returning, going back to a previous point in the improvisation... revisit this material in order to know it otherwise and to see where else it might lead....

tracking back and forth your dance evolves....

Video: An extract from an extended improvisation filmed on a dolly 

(Re)locations 6: in isolation

Shifting small isolated actions across different parts of the body,

    .... Echoing patterns and rhythms whilst responding to the anatomy of each new location.

Video: Filmed in closed up and arranged on screen

(re)locations 5: repositioning the image

Playing with a single pose in a series of photographs....

(Re)locations 4: carrying it with you

This task asks that you take your experiences of moving in one place into another...from street to studio, stairwell to field, swimming pool to hillside.

As you generate movement in one place, as the environment provokes embodied responses - note these movement responses, replay them until you are familiar with the sensations, qualities and patterns of your improvisation. 

Then,

move into a new location, (re)finding and replaying the material from your first space, noting how the new location changes it and/or how you experience the movement differently.... what is it that you 'carry' with you? 

This could continue in a chain of  locations allowing the improvisation to morph in response to each new location, whilst noting what remains....