The Tuning Score, a performance research format, asks what do we see when we're looking at dance. How does composition arise in the body and its environment? The research focuses on the physical base of the imagination. By altering the way we use our senses while moving and watching movement, we can begin to tease apart the genetic and acquired patterns our senses use to construct our experience. We will look at the ways these patterns influence how and why we move, shape our interaction with our inner and outer environments, and inform our desire for action and what we see when we are attending to anything.
*Part of Figure Space, a 6-week intensive workshop series in three 2-week sessions over the course of a year.
Figure Space
Session 2 | The Tuning Score
WORKSHOP FULL
Programming category:
April 15, 2012 - 5:00pm - April 27, 2012 - 3:00pm
Faculty
Lisa Nelson
Lisa Nelson is a dance-maker, improvisational performer, and collaborative artist who has been exploring the role of the senses in the performance and observation of movement since the early '70s. Stemming from her work with video and dance, she developed an approach to spontaneous composition and performance she calls Tuning Scores. She has co-edited Contact Quarterly dance and improvisation journal since 1977. She lives in Vermont.
Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton has researched the fiction of cultured dance and the 'truth' of improvisation for 40 years. He lives on a farm, and he has received grants from Change, Inc., the Foundation for Performance Arts, John D.Rockefeller Fund, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater, Grand Union, Contact Improvisation, Touchdown Dance for the visually disabled (UK), and began his career studying modern dance techniques, ballet, Aikido, Tai Chi Chuan, and Vipassana meditation.
