One Idea – Line
Complexity of Transitions
This animation deals with the complexity of an ensemble’s shape, or an individual, for that matter, and the complexity of the transition to the next shape. Thinking specifically of the Ensemble Thinking scores, One Idea and Complete the Form, in that they are a similar score, but have different relationships to complexity. What I am proposing with this model is that the transition to the next shape in either score can be complex or quite simple.
One Idea has a low level of ensemble shape complexity, whereas Complete the Form has a high level of ensemble shape complexity. How exactly to measure the level of complexity of transition to the next shape is open. It could be that one person takes a lot of movement and time to arrive at the next location and shape. It could be that everyone shifts a little bit, as with classic and clean One Idea.
thoughts?
Number Score
These XYZ axes looks at Number Score from Ensemble Thinking through the variables of number of dancers, who the dancers are, and the material that they are working with.
These axes show that it possible to change each of these variables independently from one another. All three can change, only two can change, or only 1 can change.
an Ensemble Thinking question
If 3/2 and solo ensemble have the similar route of simul start, how about solo ensemble of level, or contact, and other variables of 3/2?
SIF and Dance
The right dance therefore does not need to be “determined” in advance. There is no fully specified end-result on the basis of which the dance is realized. On the contrary, the dance is realized in practice because it is getting increasingly determined or developed within the landscape of affordances. The process of dancing can even have the determining, directed, character of nesting affordance for the dancers, because they are in the process of enacting a satisfying dance.
Original Text:
The right design therefore does not need to be “determined” in advance. There is no fully specified picture or description of the end result on the basis of which the design is realized. On the contrary, the design is realized in practice because it is getting increasingly determined or developed in acting within the landscape of affordances. The process of designing the sculpture can even have the determining, directed, character of nesting affordance for the architects, because they are in the process of enacting a satisfying design.
from –
Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework
van Dijk L and Rietveld E (2017) Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances:
The Skilled Intentionality Framework. Front. Psychol. 7:1969.
Somatic Space
Ensemble Thinking is the somatic awareness of space. The idea of somatic work being limited only to the experiences of individual of itself draws the specious distinction that the individual is separate from its environment. It propagates the Cartesian body/mind divide.
Awareness of the internal experience is intertwined with spatio-temporal awareness. Ensemble Thinking trains greater awareness of the spatio-temporal awareness in a performance setting, and therefore greater awareness of the somatic experience of the individual in the moment.
If space and time had no affect on the somatic experience of the individual, no one would get nervous in the hot spot, there would be no penumbra of spatial apprehension.
Surrender
When, through your practice of Ensemble Thinking, Viewpoints, Action Theater, and Contact Improvisation, you have reached a higher state of intelligence, and that mature intelligence makes you lose the identity of the self, you become one with the performance because you surrender yourself to improvisation.
When, through your practice, you have reached a higher state of intelligence, and that mature intelligence makes you lose the identity of the self, you become one with God because you surrender yourself to Him. This is Isvara-pranidhana, surrender of one’s actions and one’s will to God. – pg 53, Tree of Yoga by BKS Iyengar.
Compare and Contrast
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqhks1Q41g]
and
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/62056892 w=560&h=315]
granted, it could be said that we are looking at apples and oranges as one performance has audience on three sides, live music, and video. But I would say that these two performances are more alike than they are different. I am most interested in the spacing, placing, and pacing of the kinespheres and how they differ in the two pieces.
Moshpit Simulation
Below is a link to an interesting simulation of a moshpit.
I can’t insert it into this WordPress site as iframes are not allowed.
http://mattbierbaum.github.io/moshpits.js/