Good
evening!
So
today I’m writing late because I finished up quite late today due
to the Improvisation Night we just performed and guess what, today’s
topic is improvisation!
So
what’s improvising? Improvising is creating or performing dance in
this case without any previous rehearsal and spontaneously coming up
with movements and developing them without a prior coaching. It let’s
you explore your creativity as a dancer and it also allows you to get
to know your own movement pattern and style.
I’ve
been doing improvisation for a very long time. Of course everyone can
improvise but in this case I mean improvisation classes. This lessons
are meant to give you extra tasks and tips to get your improvisations
to be more successful frequently. This means that you’ll be able to
use improvisation moments on the future or simply get to know
yourself better from making different tasks that let you explore
completely different flows, attitudes and feelings.
Back in
Spain I had several teachers all with very different approaches. I
went from basic improvisation based on acting to improvisations of
minimal movement and also got into partnering improvisation being
this last one the most difficult one for me.
Tonight
though it was about showing different tasks that our teacher proposed
and although we didn’t dance too much because we were all years
together I must say that’s always interesting to see everyone’s
personal feelings when dancing and how they approach the tasks.
The
best of improvisation is that once you lose your shy side it can be
very enjoyable. But that has a bad side as well and it’s that you
depend on your inspirational days.
I
explain: you know when artists say that «inspiration came to me and
i was able to make this wonderful work»? Well this is very real and
when you’re stuck creatively you use your resources that work and
try to save it.
That’s
why there’s improvisation lessons, to get you active and solve
quickly the moments when you might not be so enlightened.
Obviusly,
I get those moments very easily because I still need to learn a lot
but that’s why I think they’re vital lessons for a future
professional dancer because this gives you freedom and fast answers
when asked to dance anything.
Every
improvisation night is a mystery and sometimes it can go very well
and some other times not so much, but that’s also the magic of
improvisation and you can learn from it every time no matter the
result.
The pic from today's improvisation
night that we took from my class group.
To
finish up this short post I’ll explain this little improvisation
experience I got to enjoy last year.
Our
teacher decided to form a group of persons to participate into this
improvisation project that he had in mind in collaboration with
musicians for the Heidelberger Frühling festival that they celebrate
in Heidelberg every spring season.
It was
all based over improvisation but we set a structure that allowed us
to explore deeper and deeper into every task creating almost a story
line. It was all based around love and relationships, theme I think
it’s always likable by the public because it gets them close to the
dancers. The musicians were great as well and we created a very nice
atmosphere during the creative process.
When
performance came I’m not going to lie, I was a little nervous, but
it actually went very good and it was a very enjoyable experience.
The public really enjoyed it and it was the first time I got to
perform just improvising.
Lied Lab - Heidelberger Frühling Tanz (here you have a link to the trailer they made to announce the performance)
Anyway,
maybe we’ll get to do another improvisation night before this
school year finishes and I’ll try to take some videos and pictures
to illustrate better how this evenings are presented.
I’m
sorry that this one is a short post but I hope you enjoyed it anyway!
I’ll
see you tomorrow!
Love,
Muriel
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