Archive for January 2009

 
 

So…improvisation…what is it? (updated)

What do you want from or through improvisation?

What are improvisations / your outcomes ( aims / intentions / directions ) ?

Perhaps a better beginning for this question might be: When you are improvising in performance are you trying to communicate with the world? If so, what are you trying to communicate? Can you know prior to the moment of emergence?

How do you train for improvisation ? (provided that you care to)

Or more specifically how do you train to represent aesthetic non idiomatic departures in dance – seriously what skills do you need in order to pull that off?

What kinds of improvisation do you distinguish (if any) ?

If improvised dance is non idiomatic, does its reliance on perpetual-departure-from-idiom  to  define and redesign itself keep it pre-cultural and pre-lingual ?