DANC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Robert Rauschenberg, Contact Improvisation, Spring Training
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Each party of the duet freely improvise with an aim to working along the easiest pathways available to their mutually moving masses. How is improvisation a technique, compare and contrast it with one other techniques we have studied. Best perceived when the muscular tone is lightly stretched to extend the limbs. The partners in the duet touch each other a lot. Concentration in maintained upon the whole body. Balance: by the body"s relationship to that part which is a useful fulcrum. Neither person is bound to be active/passive for very long. Desirable to have the intelligence and freedom to choose which mode is appropriate to the ongoing improvisation. Moves from the social-glandular responses to a supra-social level. Attitude is the most important part of training. Discovered by noticing the attitudes of people. How the body reacts to the situation and how the perceptions are changed by that response.
