DANCE 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Liz Lerman, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton
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Experimenting with movement improv increasing and decreasing the dif culty. 2: accompaniment, environments, body types and individuality, unisex choreography. Improv: spontaneous movement: may be set and worked into choreography, may continue to be improve for the actual performance. Contact improv: an exchange of energy, weight and momentum between two or more people: started by steve paxton, in uenced by martial arts, increasing and decreasing dif culty. Not even all dancers could perform the work. Length, speed, number of jumps or turns, acrobatics, etc: accompaniment: This was/is explored through using: silence, sounds, collages, spoken word, live choirs, bands onstage, etc. Ex: jody oberfelder: the soldiers tale & liz lerman: environments, taking dance to other venues besides the stage. Can be staged in a speci c location with a spot for the audience. Audience can be mobile, walking to and from different locations where dancers are performing.
