Blog written Friday 3rd March 2017
De Spain expresses the Artistic forms and Structures of techniques in the two sections of these readings.
‘Chaos is a kind of form’ (De Spain, 2014, 120.) This relates to our tasks in the first week of improvisation, showing that anything can influence. We are told that everything has a form, the structure and technique is a quest to possibilities of artistic forming. The starting point comes from the artistic form on the score through exploring the body’s form. An example being the limitation of a sprained ankle, explore the movement within the torso, arms and head, connecting all three together and scrutinizing with dynamics, this causes new material fixating on intricate details.
Form is how and what we understand, for instance in verbal or body language, we communicate based on a reaction to something.
‘Individual and shared experiences form part of the structure of each improvisation’(De Spain, 2014, p.163) Influences provide opinions, this creates a starting point as such in the Jam the week before we improvised in partners, giving each other instructions and reacting to these caused explorative dance vocabulary that I personally had not felt in my body before.
De Spain, K. (2014). Landscape of the now. 1st ed. Oxford Univ. Press