On the present moment

 ” You are a part of space.”- Anna Halprin. 

[Sometimes it is so ridiculous, that only now I have started to notice  how important and powerful my eyes or other body senses could be during the dance, when I have been doing it since I was 6…]

I believe that all this lecture these Anna’s Halprin’s words leaded me. I found that it is so important to  find a spot in studio where I would like to be, because, if you find one, perhaps there you would feel better, dance better or improvise better, but the key point for me would be that also the time you spend, could be better as well. ”To be in the right place at the right time” – now this idiom has a new meaning for me!

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 I  appreciate spending hours for Improvisation lecture’s readings, because after all, they really make sense!  

 

I was talking with Rachel in the end of the class and we were wondering that if we had had Improvisation lessons in the first term, perhaps our understanding about solo and trio performances would have been performed in a better quality… It’s surprising how exactly this lecture opens our minds and imagination how to move…  

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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.

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I heard people saying that Dance Improvisation classes
are one of the most interesting of all, so during the Christmas holidays
I was waiting, waiting and waiting for it… Although, I had the feeling that it is not going to be easy … Probably that’s why my inner voice kept saying to me to prepare myself for a new challenge. One week before dance improvisation, we had the intensive week with choreographer from Canada whose works are kind of based on improvisation, I remember me thinking, “Well, maybe,  it’s [improvisation] not such a hard thing to do!” [Of course now, I regret for that thought!] But THEN I attend my first class!!! Continue reading “Week 1”

 

Buckwalter, M. (2010) Composing while Dancing: An Improviser’s Companion. Madison, Wis: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Husemann, P. (2005) The Functioning of Thomas Lehmen’s Funktionen.Dance Theatre Journal, 21 (1) 31-35.

Ribeiro, M, & Fonseca, A m (2011), The empathy and the structuring sharing modes of movement sequences in the improvisation of contemporary dance, Research In Dance Education, 12(2)  71-85

Spain, K. (2014) Landscape of the now: a topography of movement improvisation. Oxford, NY, USA: Oxford University Press.