Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation
- Author: Fischbeck, Manfred
- Author: Herrmann, Brigitta
Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation
- Author: Fischbeck, Manfred
- Author: Herrmann, Brigitta
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About
Group Motion--an improvisational dance performance practice--represents fifty years of co-creation by the authors, with the participation of thousands of dancers, musicians, videographers and others around the globe. Informed by Mary Wigman's expressionist dance and other contemporary dance and theater traditions, Group Motion has brought dance not only to stages worldwide, but also to public parks, prisons and airports.
Part memoir, part guidebook, part philosophy of art treatise, this book provides step-by-step guidance to dozens of improvisational structures or games for dance professionals, theater artists, musicians and other performers who use movement for creative expression.
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Origins of Group Motion
- Group Motion in Practice
- Dance Is My Life: Brigitta’s Story
- Running into Dance: Manfred’s Story
- Group Motion Performance Stories
- Part I. Group Motion Game Structures
- Solo/Duet
- Active-Passive
- Activation
- Mirror
- Closing Your Eyes
- Self Portrait Dance
- Solo Dance/Writing
- Dialogue
- Connected to Strings
- Self-Activation
- Breathing Movement
- Final Reflections on Solo/Duet Forms
- Circle
- Impulse
- Name Game
- Adding
- Final Reflections on Circle Forms
- Space
- Areas
- Crystallization
- The Grid
- Shadow Dance
- Exchange Game
- Moving or Being Still
- Triangle/Diamond Dance
- Group Dialogue/Trialogue Dance
- Final Reflections on Space Forms
- Sound
- Time Dance
- Message Dance
- Receiving Sound Energy
- Conducting Sound Energy
- Sound Activation/Soundscapes
- Words into Sounds
- Final Reflections on Sound Forms
- Word
- Traveling Landscapes
- Say What You Do
- Word/Movement Mirror
- Chat Room
- Writing Process and Activation
- Textography
- Storytelling Dance
- Alter Ego Monologue
- Alter Ego Dialogue
- Final Reflections on Word Forms
- Ritual
- House or Village Square Dance
- Object Dance
- Group Activations
- Tableaux Stills
- Group Tableaux Travel
- Evolution Cycle
- Past Lives Circle
- Doing Nothing: The Dance of Stillness
- Game Sequences
- Introduction to the Friday Night Workshop
- Model of Group Motion on a Friday Night
- The Significance of Ritual Dances
- Part II. Group Motion Practices
- Eight Therapeutic Principles of Group Motion
- The Partnership of Dance and Music
- A Process of Collective Creation
- Community Performance Project
- Monday Night Improv Lab
- Moving Beyond the Games
- Reflection on the Practice of Free Improvisation
- Practice of Interaction with Technology
- Part III. Closing Conversations and Meditations
- Cooperation: The Universal Creative Principle
- Dance as a Vehicle for Understanding Human Nature
- The Awakening of the Body in the Technological Age
- The Art of Dance and Transformation
- The Art of Free Improvisation
- From Then to Now and There to Here
- Dance as an Art Form
- Dance Is a Way of Life
- Appendix I: Dance Chronology: Brigitta Herrmann
- Appendix II: Theater and Dance Chronology: Manfred Fischbeck
- Bibliography
- Index
