The third workshop (3/3) focused on movement in space in relation to the architectural space and furniture within it. The intention was to explore whether by moving through space with a different intention we experienced the room differently?
We each took turns to make three shapes within the room and repeated this three times. We took turns to re-enact each other's sequence of actions, through a process of remembering and improvising what wasn't remembered. We then returned to our own sequence and simultaneously 'performed' this together, negotiating the points where our paths crossed as they occurred. We experimented using a metronome to unify our movements. It was a really enjoyable and playful session with lots of laughter.
At the end we had a quick look at Trio A by Yvonne Rainer as this resonated closely with the simple range of repeated movements we had been working with during the session.
Trio A, Yvonne Rainer
We came across a choreographic toolkit D-Lab: a Virtual Commons for Choreography and Collaboration by Dance Exchange in association with Liz Lerman. This is a really useful toolkit.
There's a lot of potential to develop the range of movements we came up with, particularly at the points where our paths crossed, to consider structures for unifying the floor space as a compositional tool and with regards to tempo.
We came across a choreographic toolkit D-Lab: a Virtual Commons for Choreography and Collaboration by Dance Exchange in association with Liz Lerman. This is a really useful toolkit.
