Perspectives: Call and Response

Improvise for 2 mins.... then pause, reflect.
Taking your own improvisation as a score or trigger, dance again for a further 2 mins.

You might think of this as making a response in order to reveal something of the previous dance

And... in a cyclic process you can go on... each period of improvisation illuminating and shifting the previous version.

Video: One round of 'call' and 'response', filmed on the left and right side of the studio respectively with a static camera, editing together into on screen.

Perspectives: Shifting focus

Video: short timelapse

A beautiful day!

Responding to what is available.

Giving yourself space and time to absorb and integrate your changing environment is a key part of nomadism in/as improvisation...

Video: The studio is bathed in sunlight, casting shadows and warmth across the space, I dance.

Connectivities: duets

Embodied transformations

Working with a partner, support their movement – stroking, holding, guiding, following your partners movement with your hands. Guiding their emerging solo, and echoing it with your touch and in your body.

When you are ready exchange roles - passing from guide to guided.

As the dance between you develops and extends let a duet take shape. Following and leading blur. A dance with or without touch/contact is formed.

                         Note how this dance resides within you....

then, when you are ready - drift away from your partner and explore this dance as a solo... how does it reside in your body?

then when ready find a new partner.. here allow a different dance to form – informed by the previous duet and altered by this new partners dance…

       and again move to solo’s, and then in time, new duets…

then, following one more solo re-find your first partner –

re-find your first dance,

                      Noting what has changed, how things have moved                 on,             transformed.

                     Note what remains, what remains anew...

inspired by Eva Karzcaq (ID workshop Dec 12th, 2011)

Connectivities: breath

Working from ease and flow in the breath...

Begin in rest... allow air to enter the whole body and exhale deeply, 

as you exhale release tensions in the body,

becoming like an empty suit...

As you exhale and the tensions drop away see what movement is opened....

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