Week 9 – The Final Improvisation

“We believe that students learn to become choreographers through the development of artificial consciousness; the ability to describe, analyse, interpret, evaluate and imagine/implement revisions to their own and others’ dances.”( Lavender, L, 2001, 195)
I am now at the end of my improvisation practice and my views of it have changed, at the beginning I had only a little bit of improvisation practice and I was completely unaware of how much could go into it. For instance, how a score could help you create a phrase, different images to incorporate into my body and so much more. My views on improvisation have changed because it’s made me more aware of my body and all the different possibilities I can use my body for. I believe that imagery has influence me a lot with this change because it’s made me think about ways in which I can move my body, think about what parts I use a lot, what parts can I use when, what parts haven’t I used and what parts are my weakest that I don’t use and what could I experiment with. To continue, improvisation has expanded my choreography because it’s broadened my awareness and has given me more choreography techniques, ways to develop myself further within my stages of choreography.
Furthermore, improvisation has got a lot to do with choreography because it’s always going to be a starting point for it. Without improvisation there would be no choreography we always start from scratch when creating so we are improvising to bring that all together to create something. When you’re improvising you are dancing from within and being internal. When choreographing you are improvising but taking movements that you like and putting them together into a set order. When improvising and choreographing they can be separate because improvising you are just flowing with the movement and the movement is coming out of the body, were as choreographing, yes you improvise but that then becomes set as piece.
Being in the moment means to let out any emotions and any movement within the body, being internal and really feeling the movement. The experience I got from this was a good feeling when I got it right because I found my movement would rise and really flow nicely I wasn’t thinking about where I was going or what I was doing, I was just flowing through it and letting my body create. I think you know when you’ve been there because the movement feels good and you really feel like you are there.
Bibliography
Lavender,L.(2001)From Improvisation to Choreography: the critical bridge. Research in dance education.