LIVE COMPOSITION FOR PERFORMERS

Rosalind Crisp has formed, reformed, accumulated and questioned her dancing knowledge over 40-years of studio research and live performance work. She has developed a method to undo those habits left by training and those that continually re-emerge from repetitive practices. 

 

Rosalind will share her processes for remembering the materiality of the body, with helpful ways to be with the flesh, weight, breath, edges, contents... 

 

How to stay interested? 

From the beginning, a raft of compositional tools will be drawn on - simple, playful ways to respond to this materiality such as: following one piece of flesh at a time, prolonging/inhibiting, accelerating/decelerating, thickening/weakening, etc.. and combinations of contrasting/complimentary tools.

 

The aim is to switch compositional awareness on, from the start, not later after one has 'warmed up'. If we want to compose now, then surely we need to start practicing composing now. We are already somewhere. 

 

Performing is a practice that proffers its own feedback to the artist. How do we stoke the naked conviction required to dance in-full-view?

 

Rosalind's principles and practical tools offer concrete ways to navigate between felt sensation, compositional clarity and vivid imagination; to shift one's focus between making movement and following movement; and to draw power as a performer from the event of being watched. Her method strengthens solo performing practice and equips dancing artists to sustain and take pleasure in an independent, embodied inquiry. 

PHOTO: by Edita Sentić

Rosalind Crisp is an Australian dancer-choreographer and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. 

She founded Omeo Dance studio, Sydney in 1996, was Associate Artist at Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson 2004-2013, and co-founded Orbost Studio for Dance Research in 2021. Her solo and group works have been presented in 100's of festivals throughout Europe, Australia and Asia, including, Zodiak Helsinki, Zurich theatre Spektakel, Taichung Cultural Centre, Sydney Opera House.. and she has taught thousands of dancers (DOCH, Dans Centrums Sweden, HZT Berlin, Trinity Laban, The Place London, VCA Uni Melbourne, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company...)

https://www.omeodance.com