http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TRACE: Improvisation in a Box This creative collection points towards the sensuous and playful nature of improvising - uncovering the experiential and ontological features of solo dance improvisation and focusing on notions of memory, (dis)appearance, nomadism and pleasure. TRACE documents the underlying concepts of improvisation through a series of correspondence between ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=327 Voice: a re-tracing is a video/sonic work brings together and develops a series of danced scores (filmed and edited by Tim Halliday as part of ‘Trace: Playing with/out memory’) and a new sonic score created by Tom Williams - ‘Voice’ – (which in itself is already a development of ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=325 A task: Write a letter to your ‘practice’ as if it were your lover. by Robert Daniels, offered to participants at Tea and cakes with the Lab - I thank Robert for the journey this task initiated. If you were ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=324 Score: a ‘notation’ (graphic, poetic or descriptive etc.) that can be ‘read’ or interpreted. As impulses and/or structural guidelines for performance they enable open and spontaneous responses. A task: Coming in and out of improvisations make a note of images, sensations and actions that occur to you whilst ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=323 (A few) training tasks for improvisation Below you will find a few improvisations tasks that I find useful when preparing to improvise. The point of the story is to remember to play (Deborah Hay) Invisible Dances Stand or lay in the space. Begin to imagine yourself moving... running down a hill sitting on a ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=322 Today we looked at a 15 minute video of Sara's work. Sara asked me (Jane) to facilitate a discussion of her work using a 'Focusing' approach. The idea was to respond to the work from our 'felt sense' or 'felt experience' of viewing the work. Sara would take notes but ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=213 After the showing of my experimental piece Intimacies at the Choreographic Lab, we retired to a discussion about the work as a group. Jane Bacon postulated that we use an adaptation of the 'Focusing' technique to flesh out various kinds of reaction to the work. Based in my rather out-of-the-ordinary ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=318 I’m interested to know more about what you do… Developing the focusing, Lerman models and creative responses. Using Hincks ‘5 Facets of Creative Process’ model and working with a witness in one area of the model (Delving, Raising, Assaying, Articulating or Outwarding). Hincks’s model is intended to be used to enable ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=317 For anybody coming to Guy's project's web pages for the first time, because the pages run with the most recent post coming first, it might help to go to the first post - "First Slices" - at the bottom of the first page and work your way back to this ... http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=276 This is the first sample of what I think I'm aiming at in this work. It uses a clip taken from film of the workshop I held with some dance artists in the summer of 2006. AdamGillH264.mov http://www.choreographiclab.org/Main/?p=331