composition – what
improvisation – when
aesthetic – how
narrative – why
“The point of movement scores/improvising and subsequent discussion is to compel students to make specific aesthetic choices and then to gain consciousness both of the particular choices they have made and the reasons why they (or someone else) might make a similar or different choice.”
The original text below:
“The point of compositional prompts and subsequent discussion is to compel students to make specific aesthetic choices and then to gain consciousness both of the particular choices they have made and the reasons why they (or someone else) might make a similar or different choice.” (205)
Larry Lavender Predock-Linnell & Jennifer Predock-Linnell (2001) From Improvisation to Choreography: The critical bridge, Research in Dance Education, 2:2, 195-209
Pablo and Salvador
Picasso + Dali = Masson
Improvisation is not an exercise
“We know that improvisation is one of the canonical exercises of universal teaching.” – J. Rancière
While I do agree that teaching, whatever the subject, involves a healthy measure of improvising. I would, however, say that improvisation is not an exercise, but a temporal relationship that can be exercised during a given exercise.
Do
Contacting the Penumbra
hypothesis:
The Penumbra of Spatial Apprehension figures prominently in Contact at 10th and 2nd.
Is improvisation enacted phenomenology?
When improvisation is true to its intent, it never knows where it is going. This is because it is present-centered in its descriptive aims, accounts for temporal change, and does not have appropriate and inappropriate topics. It might move from Zen to dance to baseball to washing dishes, and even isolate a purity of attention that under certain circumstances connects them all. Improvisation develops unpredictably, according to the contents of consciousness. Â – Andrew Wass
original text below
When phenomenology is true to its intent, it never knows where it is going. This is because it is present-centered in its descriptive aims, accounts for temporal change, and does not have appropriate and inappropriate topics. It might move from Zen to dance to baseball to washing dishes, and even isolate a purity of attention that under certain circumstances connects them all. Phenomenology develops unpredictably, according to the contents of consciousness.
Sondra Fraleigh
A Vulnerable Glance, Dance Research Journal, v. 23 issue 1 1991, p.11)
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determinate action
Narrow the infinite
