MOVEMENT

MOVEMENT

MATERIAL

Movement is kinetic information.

It includes:

• initiation;
• trajectory;
• body-part articulation;
• direction;
• weight;
• continuity;
• interruption;
• quality;
• physical transformation.

BODY-PART RESEARCH

The workshop isolated:

• head;
• elbows;
• hands;
• chest;
• pelvis;
• knees;
• feet.

One or several parts could initiate movement.

QUALITY

Imagery supplied physical qualities without requiring illustration.

The performer could investigate:

• density;
• viscosity;
• gravity;
• expansion;
• compression;
• softness;
• slowness;
• instability.

SENSATION

Movement could:

• emerge from sensation;
• generate sensation;
• relate to music;
• oppose music;
• exist independently beside music.

NOT DANCE DISPLAY

The instruction “do not dance” did not prohibit movement.

It redirected attention from demonstrating familiar dance form toward investigating the material itself.