I believe that readings should help me to enrich my knowledge about dancing body and/or dance improvisation in general. But I’ve noticed that every time I finish the specific chapter, I find more and more questions to answer…
So, this week (week 2) I changed my awareness to dance. After that session I am convinced that first of all you have to find yourself, your own way in the field of dance. I admire those ”talks” by dance improvisation practitioners in Landscape of the Now book, because I found inspiration not to stop exploring… Also, talking about the same book, I wonder how much the dance, psychology and human personality interrelated one another. It seems that I want to read especially their comments not only because of finding the answers, but to find out how they talk about specific topics from their perspective, from their own v e r y specific sense and, of course, experience to dance. Sometimes it looks like you can read or interpret their psyche which is really interesting to me.
Later in the class I noticed how the readings relate to the practical work in the studio. However, I made a conclusion that while I read at home it is so easy to think “I can do it” or “I understand how to do it”, BUT when it comes to practical work… Then I’m just like, “How dared you think that you can do it?!” Maybe I’m too strict to me when I know that I don’t have any experience in improvisation, but on the other hand, times goes so fast here at university, and I really want to learn to do everything as much good as I could…
Talking about activity when we worked in pairs, I noticed that for me it was hard to remember my sequence and what I have done before. Probably, I need to work out with the idea of tracking, which was also from this week’s readings’ list. Also, at this time, I noticed how all the readings became meaningful in a practical way after we analysed together.
Bibliography
Spain, K. (2014) Landscape of the now: a topography of movement improvisation. Oxford ,NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 45-52.
Spain, K. (2014) Landscape of the now: a topography of movement improvisation. Oxford, NY, USA: Oxford University Press. 97-101.