The reading for this week were all about how improvisors develop the scores and what the scores were, there were 5 different ones

1.Material
Creates movement

2. Interpret
Interprets anybody in the space

3.Manipulator
Manipulates anybody in the space

4.Observer
Observes what’s happening in the space

5.Meditator
Ask questions to make the movement more clear to the audience

Later on in the week we had an improv jam with a different lecturer this was a very interesting and a very understanding lesson about improvisation, we did different tasks of how to move along the space, whether it would be on the floor, getting up and going back down or finding a way from the floor to eventually movement off the ground. This was really understanding and allowed me to explore different ways and methods of moving along the space. We then added dynamic quality and found out that creating sharp straight lines in the body whilst moving along the space was very difficult and felt abnormal to a more free flowing softer movement to move with. We was then told to get into pairs and label our self A and B and the B would have to copy all of A’s movements, this was a very hard task but was very helpful as it allowed us to think and move like different people broadening our movement quality and ability and for the B dancer to no be doing their habitual movements. These exercises were so helpful for improvisation in its self and its helped widen my vocabulary of movements and helped me stop some habitual movements which is good because improvisation is all about allowing the body to do what it does without using our habitual movements.