Our first lab will be facilitated by Ingvild Bertelsen.

Lab desciption: Make friends with your habits

For this lab I wish to question the tendency of wanting to drastically change the way you move while improvising. I see in some parts of the milieu of improvisation, that it’s important to not get stuck into repetitive patterns, and that one should avoid habits of movement all together. However, looking at Eleanor Bauer’s essay “Effing the ineffable” it is clear that the time to establish other ways of looking at the habits we have is needed. After all, wanting to constantly change how you move is a habit as well. 

The lab will focus on individual exploration of movement, however, sharing with others will also occur.

Warmup will be a guided improvisation. 

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