I've recently stumbled across Contact Improvisation. For those who don't know what it is, here are YouTube search results; here's an informative site; or you can google it.
Due to living in a culturally-underdeveloped city, the closest jams and classes are interstate. Thus, I have had no actual contact with them.
So I thought I'd bring it here. What are peoples opinions? Has anybody had any experience with it? Is anybody here currently practising it? Do you think it's a useful training tool, or it makes for a good performance? Or do you think it's ungodly?
I'm still trying to make my mind up on this last point. Where I've no objection to it fundamentally, the bodies can become intimate, and at times quite tangled. Note that I'm not a prude... and am aware that one can be close, and not intimate... however some videos can have you guessing weather or not this is glorifying to God.
As an actor (I realised I wasn't a good dancer a couple of years ago) I can see the advantages in the contact improvisation. It helps one observe and explore, practically, how bodies move and interact - both physically, and psychologically.
It can help performers explore character relationships. What happens in the space would be a metaphor for the psych.
It questions (imho) the definition of space. Is the performance space the other body, is it only where the the body's are moment to moment? Or, is the performance space simply the whole area given to perform - regardless of what is used?
Am I just over thinking it all?
I don't think so... but I'm interested in people's opinions
Due to living in a culturally-underdeveloped city, the closest jams and classes are interstate. Thus, I have had no actual contact with them.
So I thought I'd bring it here. What are peoples opinions? Has anybody had any experience with it? Is anybody here currently practising it? Do you think it's a useful training tool, or it makes for a good performance? Or do you think it's ungodly?
I'm still trying to make my mind up on this last point. Where I've no objection to it fundamentally, the bodies can become intimate, and at times quite tangled. Note that I'm not a prude... and am aware that one can be close, and not intimate... however some videos can have you guessing weather or not this is glorifying to God.
As an actor (I realised I wasn't a good dancer a couple of years ago) I can see the advantages in the contact improvisation. It helps one observe and explore, practically, how bodies move and interact - both physically, and psychologically.
It can help performers explore character relationships. What happens in the space would be a metaphor for the psych.
It questions (imho) the definition of space. Is the performance space the other body, is it only where the the body's are moment to moment? Or, is the performance space simply the whole area given to perform - regardless of what is used?
Am I just over thinking it all?
I don't think so... but I'm interested in people's opinions
