Experiences

Experiences

Improvisational games, experimental designs, scores to try out and build upon.

Virtual Reality Moving – VRUI-VIVE

Here’s a tiny hint of the VR: Oliver’s system has a nice trick where you also project the VIVE world onto a screen (or wall) so that from one perspective you see the person in the world (yet in front…

Group Juggling

Tom Burmester offered “group juggling” that he has used for years to create group togetherness among undergrads in theater settings (see video above), and because the intensity of passing many balls around between people at the same seems to make…

Scores for Movement

An example of a GIG developed by ICI. Joe used it as part of a workshop at “Embodied Creativity and Interdisciplinary Collaboration” at Aarhus University in April 2018.

String-Kite-Becoming

Kevin O’Connor offered string-kite-becoming, my name for the score (light instructions) in which two people hold ends of a short string and one “flies” the other like a kite. Then exchanging roles. This also seems to quite quickly create a…

Bunraku Puppeting

Mike Chin offered Bunraku puppeting as a group improvisational possibility. This involves building on the Japanese Bunraku theatre tradition in which three people manipulate one puppet together, with group breathing practices and shared projected experience of the puppet. There seems…

GIGs: Group Improvisation Games

GIGs are Group Improvisation Games principles for making experiments differently. Developed between Brain2Brain Project (Aalto U, Helisinki) and the Joint Improvisation Lab (ICI, Paris). Defined in the paper: “Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness“…