Feeling the ebb.

This project is calling up my endurance.   We're in a good place, looking forward to tomorrow. 

Morning rendering

This morning I found an open blog on improvisation.  The conversations are thoughtful and detailed, and offer nice insights on the nature of improvisation.  One that sticks with me is that improvisation is something that happens in the practice.  We practice improvisation, but the practice is not improvisation, but true improvisation happens inside of the practice.   I'll try and wrap around that. 

http://slightly.net/improv/

Putting it together

Today's rehearsal felt great.  I'm getting better at being a participant and leader, and things are coming together. Setting chairs out where the audience will be lent a nice sense of soon to be completion.  The end is near, not that this process will have pre performance finality that many set works have-- this project is largely going to be new when we perform it on Friday.  The excitement lies in the unknown, and the trust.  Trust is big. The group aesthetic is happening.  Today felt like a reassuring squeeze. 

This little dance

I'm thinking about choreography vs. improvisation for this particular project- keeping in mind this little dances scope, people involved, and my own mind availability.   Here is an interesting look on the subject, in the medium of tango.  He says "I dance on the level of instincts." and "Improvisation is a baby of intuition, choreography- artistic logic. " 

http://www.virtuar.com/tango/articles/2006/improvisation.htm

He also says rehearsed does not mean choreographed.  Choreographed is making a dance.  This was a little big moment for me- setting something, calling it choreographed, and then not rehearsing it, still may be in the level of innovation, and improvising choreographed movements. hmmm. Need to think on that. 

For fun look at a conversation on pole dancing choreography vs. improvisation.  

http://poleskivvies.com/2009/05/putting-the-dance-back-in-pole-dancechoreography-vs-improv/

Interesting mini conversation on complexity theory, and it's connection (or call for a dance specific recreation of one) to dance. 

http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/research/emergent-patterns-in-dance-improvisation-and-choreography

Still not sure where I'm going today.