‘Whats the score’? Was one of the readings that we had to read for this week, We went through it in class and people felt that it went into detail about scores and what they do and how different Improvisers have used scores.

The text refers to how scores assist the composition of improvisation, and I agree with this because without scores we do not have guidelines and we have no reason to dance without them. A reason to dance creates more interesting dance than no aim or reason and even improvisation has an aim or reason.

• the score brings attention to the body.

Uses of scores –

• Define your own meaning,
• support the possibility of not knowing
• to create the dance
• decreasing the number of possibilities.

Open to close scores – 1 (no direction) – 10 (lots of direction)

After a break we began playing the disassociation game where we had too say things completely irrelevant to each other

Functions –

First role – person who brings in the material

Second role – offers and interpretation

Third role – Manipulate the person with the material or the interpreter –affecting change.

Fourth role – Observer, watches. – Had to make audience and all performers aware of their role

Fifth role – Mediator, Asks questions etc.

WE WERE UNABLE TO CHANGE ROLE WITHOUT LEAVING THE SPACE FIRST

Play, Pause, Reverse, Resituate and Replace, are all ‘orders’ we used during this weeks Improv class.

This week we discussed the idea of scores in improvisation and how using the above directions can influence our improvisation.

So I quite enjoyed this week, using these directions made improvising a lot easier and I felt it really split up the different parts. Sometimes focusing for a long period of Improv can be quite difficult, but with these directions it was like being able to rethink my approach to the dance I was performing.

At this stage of Improvisation, it is becoming a lot clearer as to how we improvise.

This week I wanted to work with repetition and how that can be used in improvisation. When trying out this idea I was concerned that my movement would look rehearsed or like I was attempting to fill time, but in actual fact It opened up other ways of moving especially when connecting it with some of the directions we were being given by the audience. For example at one point when I was using repetition, one of the audience members shouted to reverse, this then opened up a whole new way of moving as I was doing the exact same movement but backwards and so continue from this movement afterwards I began moving away from my habitual movements.