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“…