What are scores? Scores have many definitions, as in Olivia Millard’s piece it states that ‘each user of scores in the dance improvisation finds her own use and meaning for them’. Scores can generate movement material, or it could support us as ‘a prop, a ruse, a pretense’. Even if we do not want a score, that is the score.
Thomas Lehmen’s Funktionen rules didn’t make sense to me at first, I needed someone to simplify and clarify the rules. When the rules was put into practise I began to understand his work. ‘It’s better to’ intrigued me because whatever was stated was then changed into movement. I know this doesn’t sound to interesting, but I feel that the task will encourage me for the next time I improvise. I could imagine doing something like: It’s better to go for a swim. My first instinct is to move my arms, but then I could develop this movement quality into my legs or another part of my body. Even if it seems impossible, I would find a way round it to make it possible and somehow make a move that represented swimming.
The final activity of the practice:
– Material Maker
– Interpreter
– Manipulator
– Observer
– Mediator
I took on the role of the material maker and interpreter, both easy until the manipulator came in, however I found this helped. It challenged me on what I could do to get away and pursue what I want, I didn’t have time to think, it just happened.
Bibliography
Millard. O (2015) What’s the score? Using scores in dance improvisation. Brolga: An Australian Journal About Dance, 40, pp. 45-56. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, EBSCOhost.
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