Archive for March, 2010

Stepping into the unknown.

I reckon it’s always been about that. When I look back at the first steps in my dance career, during my Amsterdam days, that theme was already a central topic. I remember describing the feeling on stepping into the unknown, with the metaphor of being on a ship, when you can’t see anymore the shore [ READ MORE ]

Moving little.

Possibly for the first time in my life I seem to be needing a long and attentive warm-up in order to do what I’m trying to do. Ironically I am moving very little, at least apparently, as my focus is on tiny minute movements and shifts in the body, the small dance as it’s been [ READ MORE ]

We study improvisation.

This morning I had the pleasure of a short conversation over skype with some musicians from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. This group of artists has been participating for the past few weeks in an electroacustic improvisation workshop under the guidance of Luis Alejandro Olarte and Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski. At the end of the workshop some [ READ MORE ]

More on improvisation.

The other day the conversation touched the subject of training improvisation, or teaching improvisation if you look it from the other point of view. It made me think that during several years of practicing improvisation, I have put a lot of focus on the choice making process, building up tools and skills to inform and [ READ MORE ]

That Edward Hopper place.

In the last few days I have been looking for that “Edward Hopper place”, a silent, uneventful, yet compelling place, open and spacious enough to create room for the imagination of the viewer to stream and meander. Hopper left a lot of the space empty in his paintings, the settings devoid of details, the faces [ READ MORE ]

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