How to maintain the liveliness, spontaneity and richness of an initial improvisational experience while composing movement material? Maybe we can trick ourselves if we approach choreography as a sequence of dynamic events, concentrating on what’s alive in the moment rather than getting lost in fixing a reproducible form. In an open research situation I offer ideas and experiments that try to generate authentic physical motivation: Playing with unpredictability, provoking a temporary loss of control and asking for quick, surprising reactions. Creating/overcoming resistances. Using contrasts and conflicts between body parts, concepts of space, surrounding and other persons. My aim is to share tools that have proved fruitful in my own experience and provide possible guidelines for the creation and performance of individual movement material.
Kenji Takagi
