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Improvisation
Improvisation is part of our daily lives. It is a dance of outer influences and inner impulses. When we let ourselves, we can reflect and connect with each new moment and everything that has ever been. |
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I draw from the personal and the universal which holds everything we need for spontaneous and structured performance and composition.
The challenge is what to express from this infinite resource. As a beginner in the late 'sixties, I practised different approaches
to this creative challenge, including beautifully designed pieces by John Stevens which led to a coherent language of individual
and collective liberation and almost telepathic interaction, to just improvising freely and experiencing joy, frustration,
confusion and clarity, depending on who I was playing with or how trusting or not I was of myself, others and the process
of improvisation itself. I found my background in dance and theatre; my political awakening, motherhood; all of these and
more, becoming a part of my ongoing love affair with improvisation. When I went through a period of late nights and drinking
and smoking too much and my singing voice suffered, I developed a strange kind of stand up improvised philosophising and comedy.
Over the years these, and other approaches have been developed, fine tuned, contrasted and integrated into my performances
and teaching...
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Improvisation
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