Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation

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