‘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