Dance improvisation
The dance improvisation is a variety of dancing , moving, where it comes out of the moment his body. That means there are no choreographies that are danced. Every movement exists only in the moment in which it is expressed.
A distinction is made between free and bound improvisation (e.g. music / rhythm, idea / presentation / topic, objects / materials, spatial forms). An aid to dance improvisation, for example, is music that can be improvised to. The type of music or the rhythm can inspire the movements of the dancers. However, there are also talented improvisers who no longer need music at all and just dance to it (free improvisation). Other means can be towels, juggling balls , etc. that are built into the dance improvisation. However, this is already a high art of dance improvisation, as not only does the body move freely, but the movements of the stylistic devices must also be included.
Dance improvisation can be learned by having experienced dancers use a variety of exercises to get students to see their bodies as a whole. In addition, the ultimate goal of improvisation is to let yourself go completely. This state corresponds to what is commonly known as flow , in which time and space completely dissolve and the dancer is just pure consciousness moving - or not!
In the 1970s, avant-garde dance experiments gave rise to contact improvisation as a post-modern dance form. A constantly shifting body contact point serves the partners as a common base from which they play with their weight, move together and lift themselves up with surprising ease. Every movement develops directly from the previous one through the communication of the bodies.
literature
Friederike Lampert: Dance improvisation: history - theory - procedure - mediation . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-743-1
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ CI website for Switzerland: What is CI - Contact Improvisation? Retrieved June 29, 2015