In this week's blog post, I wanted to take a pitstop and look back at my improvisation journey.
At the beginning of my journey, I said that I hated improvisation and that I would panic every time I was put on the spot. For the past few weeks, I feel that I have somewhat gained knowledge of improvisation at an entry level and maybe in the next years, I might progress into a more advanced level of improvisation. But for 8 weeks practical work, readings and writing I've learnt more that I expected.
Recently, we've moved on from habitual movement being the main focus to scores. What are scores? How they can be used? How can they help or hinder creativity? This week's lesson I found harder to grasp. The assigned reading about RSVP cycles by Anna Halprin was, to me, an introduction but not a clear guide.
RSVP refers to all elements of improvisation. Resources, Score, Valuaction and Performance
In class, we played with this RSVP cycle- like we usually do. We were given instructions on creating a score and drew our interpretations on paper and passed them to each other to perform. This was a lot more difficult than I imagined because although we knew what our score was, other groups would see it differently and we would see something we didn't expect. This made it clear that no matter how clear a score may be, someone will always interpret it differently to what you intended.