Improvisation

Improvisation is a creative technique to develop and explore the proper way of moving the body in space and time. It can enhance our individual movement fantasy, and security in relation to given, stored or captured stimulation or motivation.

Improvisation is a spontaneous and creative activity, which combines creation with execution.
Transforms ideas, emotions,
feelings, impressions into an expressive proper body language.
Improvisation activities are nourished by outside or inside stimulation.



All external captured impressions as visual, audible, tactile, smell and taste can be translated into bodily expression.

All imagined situations, atmospheres, ideas as well as emotions and feelings, all from the inside coming stimulations, serve as potential motivation to improvise.

Improvisation functions in two ways:

From the outside coming impressions enter over our perception to our inside and lead either to a spontaneous reaction or are stored.
And from our inside world coming emotions, sensations, needs or ideas are expressed to the outside. 

To improvise, one must empty oneself, one must let go the stored structures, technique vocabularies, stiles and manners which are anchored in our consciousness.
When improvising, we enter in a huge unconscious field. The spontaneous body reaction on a stimulus is much faster than the mind. That can give space to an unusual physicality, a different space sensation as well as a new rhythmic and dynamic experience.  

The “no preparation”, the spontaneous confrontation with the perceived stimulus can cause a more deeper and honest movement sensation and develops therefore a consciousness about us, that leads to more security in bodily execution and expression.

Improvisation is equally an experience as well as a creative expression

The Improvisation activity can be performed free or guided.

In Free Improvisation, the executer improvises in a omplete free and proper way to the stimulus. He chooses spontaneously how, where and with who and what to move.

In guided Improvisation, the executer receives instructions from an outside source and its improvisation is guided more in a structural manner as spatial, social relation, time, energy, props etc.           
 
Stimulus of Improvisation


Visual 
All Visual captured impressions
Fotos, Films, Paintings, Sculptures,
Visual Patterns and Rhythms, Forms,
Shapes, Colours, Happenings etc

Audible
All audible captured impressions
Noises, Sounds, Melodies, Music,
Pulses, Rhythms, etc

Tactile
All contacting Things
The own body, Body of another person,
Walls, Floor, Materials as tables, chairs, etc

Smell, Taste
All kind of smells, tastes can activate a bodily expression. Can produce different experiences of body tension, articulation and movement flow.    
 
Imagination
All virtual imagined aspects
Materials, different space qualities as thicker, narrow, lower, floor qualities as mud, ice or fire, vehicles, animals, etc