Body Space Image score

This Body, Space, Image score from the book by Miranda Tufnell and Chris Crickmay, was a score we worked with while waiting to work with our choreographers from last year. Compositionally, it allowed us to develop our skills working as a group, with bodies in space moving.

This is the score we worked with:

  • Do the same thing - example, one person walking, two people walking.
  • Set up a relaxed activity in harmony with the first - example, run across their path
  • Set up similar rhythmic counterpoint - example, walk, turn
  • Set up a contrasting activity (that makes the first more visible) - example, stand still
  • Help what is going on - example, copy/mirror
  • Obstruct a persons activity with a contrary one - example, make them change action
  • Change the environment within which someone is working - example, turn the light off, stamp
  • Exist in another time or dimension - example, 'slow motion'.

Below is our discussion we had and some things I noticed:



We then explored this score a second time on a different occasion and I noticed even more movement habits that I have. There was a lot of focus on 'collaborating' and 'conflicting'. My tendencies are to stay low on the floor and I like to collaborate, find it much harder to obstruct or conflict someone else's movement. It's a conscious effort to conflict, simply because I think it's quite a confrontational thing to do outside of a work space, outside of a dance environment, but I need to reassure myself that it's okay in a working environment. I also liked to make sounds on the floor with different body parts, mainly my hands and feet. I also like variate someone else's movement. So if I see someone else shaking their hands, I may shake my hands in a different direction, way, or a slightly different gesture somehow. 

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