Real Time Choreography.
Foreseen or not foreseen. David Corbet and myself coined the above term whilst working on “Excavate - A two man dig”. In a way it was a way to describe our working modality and distance ourselves from the ubiquitous term ‘improvisation’. Today I find myself digging deeper into the word improvisation and find the etymological meaning refreshing. David Corbet and I do practise improvisation but our work is not improvised. Improvisation becomes the vehicle we use to travel through Excavate. Whilst I dont neccessarily know or see exactly what is going to happen during the 52 mins the time in space is dedicated to the work and the work is foreseen as existing within the afore mentioned time and space. Real Time Choreography is an apt description for this modality. Spontaneous Choreography as coined by Andrew Harwood is a better used to describe an open score/container in which a work unfolds with undefined territoties or boundaries. Like the most mechanically refined choreography Improvisation is a practise which needs rigourous, disciplined practising.
