OPEN VIEWPOINTS / INSTANT COMPOSITION

OPEN VIEWPOINTS / INSTANT COMPOSITION

OPEN VIEWPOINTS

The performer enters a shared field with:

• trained awareness;
• no complete predetermined sequence;
• responsibility for the whole;
• freedom to select or shift a Viewpoint.

INSTANT COMPOSITION

Composition occurs while the action is unfolding.

It is not random movement.

It requires:

• listening;
• choice;
• memory;
• timing;
• spatial awareness;
• perception of focus;
• relation to the audience;
• recognition of beginnings and endings.

MATERIAL

Participants may use:

• Space;
• Shape;
• Time;
• Emotion;
• Movement;
• Story;
• text;
• music;
• architecture;
• tasks;
• previously generated material.

RESPONSIBILITY

Openness increases rather than removes compositional responsibility.