“Improvisation is more about the thrill that comes from not knowing what it will be in the next moment or the next time.” (Buckwalter, Melinda)
What about before improvisation?
The idea of preparation… How can you prepare if you do not know what comes next or what will be created?
It made me think of how my body is actually feeling before I move. What are my habits of preparation to move?
-Stephanie
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What interests you about the ‘before’ Stephanie? How do you imagine ‘sharing’ the state of before with others? What ways might you consider preparation, readiness (etc)? The obvious (I guess) trap is that as soon as you ‘perform’ this preparation you are no longer preparing. Most of my reading – and practice – of improvisation seems to get at the vitality of the practice of performance being key. Not the before performance. This is, I suspect, because of how our attention is altered (potentially) by audience. Perhaps some of Andrew Morrish’s thinking might be useful in this?
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