During all those years I have been teaching (around 30 years now) I have developed multiple methods and approaches to teach moving, dancing, body knowledge, improvisation, streching etc. All information has been gathered and applied with students. I am grateful of all I have learned with them.
I have learned that there is a need to get time and continuity in order to open the embodied processes, in which we can just linger over in the experiences and sensations of the body. This sounds almost extraordinary, in this hectic busy world. To get and to give time for body, life, living…
Improvisation is a basic approach in my teaching, moving, dancing, in wiggle, waggle, swing. Improvisation holds the core question of: What body can do?
Following Brian Massumi the body affects another body. In other words, when I affect something / someone I am at the same time opening myself up to being affected in turn, in a slightly different way than I might have been the moment before (Goldman 2010; Zournazi 2002).
Following Danielle Goldman’s (2010) thoughts, improvisation involves literally giving shape to oneself by deciding how to move in relation to an unsteady landscape. It is a powerful way to inhabit one’s body and interact with the world. Improvisation is a method that gives a potential to abandon our old habits and find new ways to move, talk, understand and think.