What is ImpulsTanz?


What is ImpulsTanz?


Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world, come together, work together, for five weeks, in one city - ImPulsTanz.


Sunday, August 8, 2010

Working with words

Written notes, on a small piece of paper, that hold little statements of 'niceties'.
That's what we've worked with as a thread in our work with Lisa.
I find this particularly connected to what I'm doing with the grads next week.
How do we work with these statements?
Rather than just speaking them, we could "dance their rhythmic qualities" in material we create. This removes the literalness, or at least that is the hope.

Lisa is having us work with these little niceties in many ways:
they are on pieces of paper, handed back and forth to one another in a very informal way, they are in a pile, and recited after being picked at random, they are read privately and not recited...

OK, so what from here bears repeating/borrowing/stealing/morphing/thwarting?

Back for one more class with her and then tomorrow, we leave Vienna!

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