Next workshop with Rosalind Crisp

Tuscany, 5 – 10 september 2010
Rosalind Crisp & Andrew Morrish, Roccatederighi, Tuscany, Italy : Two approaches to improvisation:
Andrew Morrish works with methods of shifting between language, voice and movement in improvised performance.
Rosalind Crisp works with choreographic improvisation: ways of generating movement from any part of the body, at any speed or level, with any force or direction, for any duration…at any time.  
contact : Rosalind Crisp

Zurich, 24 – 26 September 2010
Choreographic Improvisation with Rosalind Crisp
contact : Tanzhaus Zurich

My practice of dancing moves between perception and action: between the ‘feedback’ from the body itself and the ‘feed-forward’ of conceptual reflection to deconstruct movement choices.

The preparation of the body involves aspects of release work, focusing on breath, weight and the senses. To stimulate each person’s inquiry I propose certain frameworks for perception that come from my own practice, for example imagining the body as made up of many independent and separable parts, or perceiving each next surface of the body that receives the weight as the body rolls slowly across the floor, or noticing each next shape that the body ‘arrives’ in…

Frameworks for generating movement are also proposed, what I call choreographic improvisation. These are stimuli for responding to what is perceived and for generating movement within particular limits, for example, moving only in an outward direction from one body surface at a time, or increasing, decreasing or maintaining the space between two body parts, or shifting a ’shape’ through space… tools to interrogate movement choices and to wake up continual potential choice-making.